Geoff wrote overnight to ask me to bend the rules:

I’d really like to take you up on the offer of a free trial online Italian lesson with a view to doing some more afterwards if the trial lesson goes as well as I hope it will.
My problem is that I have a very busy couple of days coming up between now & Sunday.

And while ‘bending the rules’, or just out-right ignoring them, is very in vogue in Italy where I live – in this case it isn’t actually required.

I replied:

Don’t worry, you don’t have to DO the free lesson this week, just book it. The offer ends on Sunday, so lessons booked after that will no longer be free. Book yours today, organise the lesson with the teacher for whenever is convenient.

I bet there are more of you thinking the same way as Geoff…

Many thanks to him, by the way, for alerting me that I hadn’t made things clear!

Oh my goodness! The offer ends on Sunday! But I couldn’t possibly fit in a free trial Italian lesson THIS week… Especially with the time zones  and whatnot. Oh well… (resigned sigh)… I’ll just have to wait until the next free trial lesson offer in February and hope I’m less busy then.

So, just to be 100% clear – book the lesson this week (it takes about 10 seconds, details are below).

What happens next is that our teaching manager, Lucia, will contact you to ask you what your needs are and WHEN you’d like to take your lesson.

It certainly won’t be an issue for her if you need to put it off a week or two. She’ll keep a list of people who have ‘booked’ and match them up with online teachers as and when they are ready for that to happen.

See Monday’s article for details.

Or look below, where I’ve cut & pasted the offer summary info, including the link to follow to nab your freebie!

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These are the ‘Free Trial Online Italian Lesson’ offer conditions:

• The offer is good from 12/11/18 to 18/11/18
• But you don’t actually have to TAKE the lesson this week, just book it, while it’s FREE!
• We’ve got the capacity for around a hundred club members to do a trial lesson
• If demand exceeds that, we’ll organise the lessons in the order they are booked
• This offer is for NEW STUDENTS ONLY
• If you booked a free trial last time but didn’t take it – do try again!
• But if you’ve already done a free trial (Lucia has a list), this is not for you
• Once you’ve done your lesson, asssuming it was useful, Lucia will send you a 15% discount coupon, so you can continue learning online at a really great price!

Book your FREE trial Italian lesson | Online Italian lesson prices

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P.S.

Did you listen to yesterday’s FREE Easy Italian News bulletin?

Click here.

A presto!

Buondì.

As mentioned last week, the Free Trial Online Italian Lesson offer starts today!

In our online shop, we have various online Italian lesson options. You can choose between packages of five or ten lessons, for example, and so benefit from a discount.

It’s also possible to buy just the one lesson, to try, or because you have some very short-term need for help.

But that’s normally the most costly way.

This week, though, the ‘one lesson’ option is priced at ZERO, rather than £20.

Take a look:

30-minute online one-to-one Italian lesson via Skype

Which means that, if you’d like to try an online lesson with a native-speaker Italian teacher, you can.

With absolutely no risk!

Just click here.

Use the ‘add to cart’ button to add it to your cart.

Then proceed in the usual ecommerce way, except for the fact that it’s FREE.

So there’s nothing to sign, no commitment to buy more, and no necessity to cancel within a certain number of days or a payment is taken from your card.

In short, no tricks.

It’s a genuinely-free, free trial offer.

Assuming you’re not buying something else, no payment details will be asked for or taken.

Complete your order. You’ll get a confirmation email.

At this end, I’ll get an ‘order received’ email.

If I’m not teaching at that moment, I’ll forward the email on to Lucia, who will reply.

She’ll contact you by email and ask WHEN you want to do your lesson and, WHAT your needs are, what your level is in Italian, and so on.

Lucia’s job is to assign you to one of our teachers. In part, she’ll make that decision based on when you want to study and when the teacher is available.

Some of them, for example, are willing to stay up really late or get up absurdly early, so as to be able to teach in different time zones.

Lucia’s also your contact point if there’s anything you need.

If, for example, you don’t manage to organise a day/time with your teacher, she’ll handle that for you.

Or perhaps you’d prefer someone younger, or older, or who speaks more or less English, or whatever?

Lucia.

By the way, given that this isn’t an automated process, do be patient.

Lucia has a day job, as do I.

Allow 24 hours or so for her to contact you.

And if we don’t reply to your emails immediately, bear in mind the time difference between Italy and wherever you are.

These are the offer conditions:

• The offer is good from today, 12/11/18 to Sunday, 18/11/18
• We’ve got the capacity for around a hundred club members to do a trial lesson
• If demand exceeds that, we’ll organise the lessons in the order they are booked
• This offer is for NEW STUDENTS ONLY
• If you booked a free trial last time but didn’t take it – do try again!
• But if you’ve already done a free trial (Lucia has a list), this is not for you
• Once you’ve done your lesson, Lucia will send you a 15% discount coupon to incentivise you to continue…

View online lesson prices here.

Then book your free trial Italian lesson

Got a question?

Just email in the usual way (reply to any email you get from me or look for the address in the footer of the club website.)

A mercoledì.