Buondì.

Students of Italian (but also French, Spanish and German) might like to know that the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com 2026 Spring Sale starts today!

Use coupon code

2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

to save 20% on Italian, French, German and Spanish lessons, so conversation, grammar, help with pronunciation, whatever you need to progress with the language you’re learning!

All you have to do to discount the price of lesson credits by 20% is to copy and paste

2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

into the box in your shopping cart. Once pasted, press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and – this is important – SCROLL DOWN to check the cart TOTAL is reduced.

The prices of individual items don’t change, which can make you think that the coupon code hasn’t had any effect…

Have a go, just to see how it works:

1. Select, for example, a pack of online lessons with a native speaker teacher. Press the ‘Add to cart’ button below the product image to, well, add it to your cart. Or click on the image to read more, then look for the black ‘Add to cart’ button on the product page.
2. View the contents of your cart at any point by clicking on ‘Cart‘, or on the shopping basket icon at the top right-hand side.
3. See your selection, ready to be bought? But at the full price… So, where’s that pesky coupon code? Ah! Here it is: 2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off
4. Control + C to copy it, Control + V to paste it into the box where it says ‘Apply coupon’ (on a Mac, use Command + C, Command + V, on a smartphone or tablet – I have no idea – ask a child…)
5. Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button and scroll down to check the total has been discounted
6. Magic! It worked. Now, were this a real purchase, rather than a practice run, you’d then press the ‘Proceed to checkout’ button and do the usual online shopping stuff.
7. But as we’re just playing, have a go at removing your test purchase from the cart. There’s a little red X to the left of the product image (in the cart). Click it and whatever you no longer desire will be removed.

Beh, yes, I admit – it all sounds rather a palaver.

Actually, though, it’s much easier and faster to DO than to describe in writing, I promise.

So, for real now – the coupon code ( 2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off ) will work on anything/everything you see on the home page of the online lessons store.

Offer Details

• This promotion ends at midnight on Sunday April 12th 2026, after which the coupon code will no longer be valid
• The next offer won’t be until July, so stock up now…
• You can use coupon code 2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off as often as you wish until the night of Sunday April 12th
• The coupon code ( 2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off ) won’t work with other coupon codes – choose one!

What, then, should you consider buying?

The ten-pack of online Italian lessons, now £200 for ten thirty-minute sessions, is a steal once discounted by 20%.

Use the coupon code on that one and you’ll be paying just £16.00 a lesson, that’s £32.00 an hour. Go ask at a ‘proper’ language school how much an hour’s lesson would cost you (but beware, because at many places you pay for an hour but actually get just 45 minutes…)

Our regular online students wait for the offers (around Easter, during the first week of July, at the end of September, and at New Year) to stock up with enough lesson credits to get them through until the next promotion, several months later.

That way they can take one or more lessons each week while never paying the full price.

Furbo, huh?

Here’s that coupon code again:

2026-Spring-Sale-20%-Off

Have fun making your selections: Online Italian/French/Spanish/German lessons

A presto!

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Buondì.

(This part is boilerplate promotion stuff, which I send out before every offer. If you’ve read it before – perhaps several times – scroll down to ‘What I’m reading/watching this week’.)

Next week, from Monday April 6th to Sunday April 12th, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which offers one-to-one online Italian, French, Spanish and German lessons, will be having its 2026 Spring Sale.

I’ll be emailing multiple times to publicise their coupon code, which – if you apply it in your NativeSpeakerTeachers.com shopping cart – will save you 20% on your order total.

Practice with native speakers is an essential part of learning a language. So if you’re not already doing regular, one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German lessons (which can be conversation, grammar, whatever you want), why not take this opportunity to give it a try? And save a fifth on the regular price!

NativeSpeakerTeachers.com does promotions like this four times a year, in the spring, during the first week of July, in September, and at New Year. The discount is always 20%, which means anyone who plans when to purchase the lesson credits they need to continue taking regular online lessons throughout the year, will never pay the full price!

But what about those club members who are only here for the free stuff (which is fine), or who are no longer interested?

Two options:

1.) Any ‘bulk’ email, so like this one, will have an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom. Clicking it will permanently remove your email address from the club mailing list. No longer interested? Prefer not to hear about next week’s promotion? Go ahead and use the ‘unsubscribe’ link (scroll right down to the end of this to find it.)

Really! You’ll be doing us a favour, as well as reducing the number of unwanted emails in the world. Having a large list costs us a monthly fee, which is money that’s wasted if we’re not a good match!

2.) Less drastically, just stop reading emails from the club until the sale ends, after which things will go back to normal, with just one regular email a week, on Wednesdays.

Alla prossima settimana!

What I’m reading/watching this week

Last week in this section of the Wednesday email, I mentioned that I was reading ‘Io, Claudio’ by Robert Graves. In Italian, as I got the ebook free from the Bologna public library service.

Careful: ‘libreria’ in italiano = ‘bookshop’ and ‘bookcase’/’bookshelf’ in English. The word for a place you can borrow books from, or just sit in peace and read them, is ‘biblioteca’. Library doesn’t equal ‘libreria’, nor does ‘libreria’ mean ‘library.

For foreign language newbies these two confusing words are known as ‘false friends’, cioè words which seem like they’ll mean the same as words in another language but, in fact, don’t. See, for instance, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:False_friends_between_English_and_Italian

Anyway, the library app allows just fourteen days to complete a downloaded ebook, which may or may not be available to renew after that period expires. Best not to rely on it.

Fourteen days isn’t long to read a four-hundred page historical novel in a foreign language, even a language you’re familiar with. But I managed it, with just a few hours to spare!

The story ended at an intiguing point. So, of course, I had to go looking for the sequel, ‘Io divo Claudio’ (English title ‘Claudius the God’). Another four-hundred-plus pages, deadline to finish them April 12th!

But now that I’m familiar with Graves’ style (and the way the translator rendered it into Italian), I’m confident. Funny how this happens, both with reading and listening/watching – once you’re familiar with a certain set of characters, and how they express themselves, it gets a lot easier! For this reason, I recommend TV series for language learning, rather than, say, movies.

Talking of movies, what have we been watching? As usual, endless hours of Bug’s Youtube kiddie crap (though it does marvels for his languages – mostly Italian, but also lots of English), plus a Netflix movie, ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’, which we spread over three separate weekend evenings as we were too knackered (= ‘distrutti’ in italiano) to watch it all the way through in one sitting.

E così. Buona Pasqua (= Happy Easter), by the way. Friday isn’t a holiday in Italy so our Italian school will be open as usual. We’re off to Rimini (in-laws, aunties and uncles, cousins etc.) on Saturday, big family lunch on Sunday, and back to Bo on Monday, which is, thankfully, a public holiday.

P.S.

And here’s the usual reminder to read/listen to yesterday’s bulletin of news from EasyItalianNews.com.

Reading/listening practice will help you consolidate the Italian you’re studying, expand your vocabulary, and build vital comprehension skills.

EasyItalianNews.com is FREE to read/listen to.

Subscribing, and so receiving all three text + audio bulletins of ‘easy’ news via email each week – on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays – is also FREE.

Just enter your email address on this page and click the confirmation link that will be sent to you.

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