There are just a few hours left of the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com 2025 Spring Sale. Today is the final day, so your last chance to save 20% on one-to-one Italian, French, Spanish or German lessons.

The coupon code you need to get a fifth off the cost of your online lessons is:

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Use it in your shopping cart at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com.

The next similar promotion won’t be until July. For nearly three months, a thirty-minute online lesson with a native speaker teacher will cost £22, unless you purchase ten at a time, in which case you’ll save money but still pay £20 per thirty-minute lesson (discounted further for packages of 20/30…)

Buy today though, Sunday April 13th, before the promotion ends at midnight, and ten 30-minute lessons with a club teacher via Skype or Zoom will cost you just £160!

N.b. to get the discount, remember to enter coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off on the cart page.

£16.00 for a thirty-minute one-to-one with a native-speaker Italian teacher?

Read genuine, unedited student reviews here.

Why not try a few lessons, to see if your confidence and ability to speak and understand Italian, French, Spanish or German improves?

It works for me, anyway – I do an online lesson each week, which keeps the language I’m learning fresh in my head and ready to use.

Remember, coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off expires at midnight tonight, Sunday April 13th 2025.

Use it here: NativeSpeakerTeachers.com

Buondì.

(As we’re busy with the 2025 Spring Sale right now, here’s an article from our archive. For details of the promotion, scroll down.)

I’ve been both an online teacher and a language learner, so can see things from both perspectives. Here, then, are a few tips for students who choose to include one-to-one online lessons in their language study program.

The Dos and Don’ts of Taking One-to-One Language Lessons Online

1. Don’t put off starting. OK, this could seem self-serving, given our current promotion, but veramente, I put off lessons, cioè actually interacting with a real person, for maybe a year after starting to learn Swedish. First I thought I’d teach myself, then I got addicted to Duolingo, so it wasn’t until months later that I realised I still couldn’t speak a word of the language… Once I’d done a lesson or two, I was kicking myself for all the time I’d wasted.
2. Don’t panic. Mild anxiety is acceptable. Remember though, it’s in the teacher’s interest, too, that things go well. She wants you to be comfortable and happy – it’s how she earns a living. In the event that you do NOT feel comfortable and happy after taking a lesson or two, get right on to our teaching management team, and ask for help/advice. Likely they’ll know what to do!
3. Do listen to the teacher. Some people, it must be said, have really dumb ideas about how they should be learning. Over the decades, I must have heard it all. For example, “I’d like you (the teacher) to help me translate this (massively-long, difficult, boring) text, which I have to read for (whatever unconnected objective).” In a thirty-minute lesson, we might get through a sentence or two, and only then by doing the whole thing in English. Most people would instead benefit from spending the time practising SPEAKING and getting feedback from the teacher regarding problems with their pronunciation, grammar, etc. A pro teacher should point that out. And it’s doubly true for students who would otherwise never speak at all… The moral? Listen to the teacher. Maybe she knows best. At least in this case.
4. Do insist. All that said, teachers are not infallible. “We don’t need no education”, indeed, and certainly not another pointless explanation of the congiuntivo, which we could read online instead of wasting valuable speaking time on. The teacher may not know what’s best for you – if you don’t either, then you’ll have to take your chances. But if you DO have a clear idea what would most benefit you (speaking!! feedback on mistakes!! help with pronunciation!!), then insist. Do. For any issues you can’t resolve with the teacher, there’s the teaching management team – ask them!
5. Do make lessons part of your routine. Thursday a.m. Swedish, Friday a.m. Turkish – I don’t always feel like taking the lessons beforehand, but afterwards I’m invariably glad I did. And as months pass, the effect on my ability to communicate in the languages I’m learning is ‘impressionante’, as Italians would say. So try to make taking a weekly online language lesson part of your language-learning routine, in the same way as you might attend an evening class or do homework. Create the habit, and in time you’ll reap the reward!

Beh, that’s about it for today. If you are on the verge of buying some online Italian lessons, but have doubts, or need more information, leave a comment on this article with your question (that way, everyone can read it, not just me.)

P.S. Save 20% in the 2025 Spring Sale!

The 2025 Spring Sale ends on Sunday April 13th, which means that there are just two days left to save 20% on one-to-one language lessons.

Everything in our online store, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, is a fifth cheaper until then, assuming you remember to use this coupon code:

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Take advantage of the 2025 Spring Sale to save 20%: it’s like getting, for example, ten one-to-one lessons for the price of eight. So two extra lessons of speaking practice, on us!

This is the coupon code you need to save £££ on your order:

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Make your selection from the one-to-one online lesson options.

Next go to your shopping cart(s) and apply coupon code 2025-Spring-Sale-20%-Off to reduce the cart total by 20%.

Remember, the coupon code is good until midnight on Sunday April 13th 2025. Use it here:

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A domani!