English with the Sun: just one month to speak it well

It is the language of work, education, travel and international relations. Increasingly, it is the factor that makes all the difference in a job interview, enabling people to tackle an experience abroad with greater confidence. Yet, for many Italians, speaking English with ease remains a challenge. Despite years of study, the most common difficulty is still applying grammatical rules in real-life conversation. The problem is often not a lack of knowledge, but the way in which it is learnt and memorised.

It is precisely this need to make learning more effective and practical that has given rise to the new series from *Il Sole 24 Ore*.

The guides, available at newsagents from tomorrow, are sold as a compulsory bundle with the newspaper for an extra €1, and each guide remains on sale for a week. The initiative has been launched with the aim of guiding readers through a gradual process of learning the language, using informative content, real-life examples and practical exercises.

This series is based on Matteo Salvo’s bestseller *Learn English in a Month*. The method is based on memory techniques and the principle of ‘learning by doing’, prioritising practice over the mere memorisation of grammatical rules. Through mental associations, practical examples and progressive exercises, the reader builds up a vocabulary that can actually be used and acquires the main linguistic structures, with the aim of communicating more naturally in everyday situations.

The five guides are available every Thursday, from 23 July to 20 August, as a supplement to *Il Sole 24 Ore*.