Buondì.
From Saturday 27th December 2025 to Tuesday 6th January 2026, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, which offers one-to-one online Italian, French, Spanish and German lessons, will be having its 2026 January Sale.
I’ll be emailing multiple times during that period 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.
A presto!
And even sooner – our Italian school’s 2026 discount promotion
Separately from the club, my wife and I also run an Italian school, in Bologna, the one in Italy. I mention it in passing sometimes but don’t often promote it directly.
However, the school does one noteworthy promotion each year, in the week leading up to Christmas, when a 20% discount on GROUP Italian courses is on offer.
That promotion begins tomorrow, December 18th. Anyone on the school’s mailing list will get details. Join the mailing list by completing the form on the school website’s home page (and making sure you click the link in the ‘please confirm’ email) here: https://madrelinguaitalian.com/
More information about the 2026 promotion can be found here: Madrelingua’s 2026 Italian Course Offer is coming soon!
One Final Festive Easy Italian Reader Ebook – an easier one!
The last couple of weeks, EasyReaders.org has been promoting a selection of seasonal Italian ‘easy reader’ ebooks, first ‘Natale a sorpresa‘ (about Christmas), then ‘Giallo a Capodanno‘ (New Year). They’re both still half-price, if you missed them.
But attenzione! ‘Natale a sorpresa‘ and ‘Giallo a Capodanno‘ are both for upper-intermediate or advanced students, so might be too much of a challenge for many of you.
To remedy that, this week’s (final) seasonal ‘easy reader’ ebook choice is the A2/B1 (pre-intermediate/intermediate) -level ‘Il calendario di Laura‘.
Laura finds weekdays a bore but loves public holidays! And Italy has plenty to enjoy, each with its own traditions.
Read how she and her husband like to spend each ‘giorno festivo’, from Epiphany on January 6th, through the spring, summer, fall and winter months, to the climax of the Christmas holidays, New Year, and then, to begin all over again!
- .pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
- .mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
- 14 chapters to read and listen to
- 14 exercises to check your understanding
- Italian/English glossaries of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
- Suitable for students at elementary level and above
- Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)
Remember, this week ‘Il calendario di Laura‘ is 50% discounted, so just £4.99 rather than the usual ‘easy reader’ ebook price of £9.99!
Buy ‘Il calendario di Laura‘ just £4.99! | Free Sample Chapter (.pdf) | Catalog
Find more ebooks, organised by level, then type: A1 | A1/A2 | A2 | A2/B1 | B1 | B1/B2 | B2 | B2/C1 | C1 | C1/C2 | C2
How do I access my ebook?
When your order is ‘completed’ (normally immediately after your payment), a download link will be automatically emailed to you. It’s valid for 7 days and 3 download attempts so please save a copy of the .pdf ebook in a safe place. Other versions of the ebook, where available, cannot be downloaded but will be emailed to people who request them. There’s a space to do that on the order form – where it says Additional information, Order notes (optional). If you forget, or if you have problems downloading the .pdf, don’t worry! Email us at the address on the website and we’ll help. Also, why not check out our FAQ?
P.S.
Enough of promotions: don’t forget to read/listen to Tuesday’s FREE bulletin of ‘easy’ Italian news from EasyItalianNews.com.
These ‘easy news’ bulletins, which are published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, each contain simplified articles with an online audio recording. They’re free to access on the website, with no registration required.
Subscribe (also free) and they’ll email you each bulletin as soon as it is published, which is a helpful thrice-weekly reminder to work on your Italian reading and listening skills!
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