Buondì.
With apologies to the seven thousand or so club members who are also on the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com mailing list, below is a copy/paste of an article published on that website this morning. Obviously it’s about taking one-to-one lessons, online, with a native speaker teacher.
This is something that we’ve been promoting for a number of years now. I tried it myself, too, when I began learning Swedish, and subsequently have done hundreds, probably thousands of online lessons in that language, plus also Turkish, French and Spanish (right now just Swedish, though, because of Bug…)
Chatting one-to-one with a native speaker, or actually studying/doing a proper lesson if that’s the way you prefer to learn, can seem intimidating at first, just as attending a class can, or going for a job interview.
I know I put it off myself for ages, despite being an actual online (and real life) teacher, and knowing I needed the practice, and that it would be good for me. I wasted far too much time on Duolingo, and doing self-study, when I could have been – should have been – actually interacting in the languages I was learning.
There’s no substitute for it. It gives you the sort of confidence that books, apps, Youtube videos and so on just can’t.
The closest thing – in terms of preparing for using the language to communicate with – is live, authentic listening i.e. radio or similar, but while that also boosts your confidence (in time), it lacks the actual opening your mouth and wagging your tongue part, and is anyway less accessible for lower-level students.
Authentic listening is hard in a way that a chat with a sympathetic native speaker doesn’t have to be. Doing it regularly in Italian, or whatever language you’re learning, is valuable for students at any level, take it from me.
And as for the practical details? See the pasted article below.
Don’t forget that NativeSpeakerTeachers.com has their Summer Sale on this week, meaning you could get your practice sessions with a native speaker teacher 20% cheaper. Scroll down past the FAQ article and you’ll find all the details on how to do that.
A domani.
(Next week it’ll be back to normal with one article only, on Wednesday.)
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Online Italian/French/Spanish/German Lessons: Got Questions?
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- I live in the USA/Australia/New Zealand. What days/times can I take lessons?
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- Why are lessons just 30 minutes long?
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2024 Summer Sale: Save 20% on One-to-One Language Lessons
Don’t forget the NativeSpeakerTeachers.com 2024 Summer Sale, which ends on Sunday 7th July.
Students of Italian, Spanish, French and German can save 20% on one-to-one language lessons via Skype or Zoom with a native speaker teacher of the language they’re learning.
With coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off , everything at our online store, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, can be had a fifth cheaper than the advertised prices!
You could, for example, buy ten one-to-one language lessons, and so practice speaking or get help with grammar, while paying for only eight!
Browse lesson options and prices, not forgetting to mentally reduce the prices you see there by 20%, then to actually use coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off to save £££ on your order!
How to do that, exactly?
First make your selection from the one-to-one online lesson options and add them to your shopping cart with the ‘Add to cart’ button.
Then go to the actual shopping cart and copy/paste coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off into the box, where it says ‘Coupon code’, to reduce the cart total by 20%.
Press the ‘Apply coupon’ button, then SCROLL DOWN to verify that the CART TOTAL has been reduced by 20% (BEFORE proceeding with your payment…)
The coupon code is good until midnight on Sunday July 7th 2024. You can use it as often as you wish, with no minimum or maximum spend, but it can’t be used together with any other coupon code you may already have.
Questions? Why not take a look at our FAQ?
Then stock up on online lesson credits – at an unbeatable price!
One-to-one lessons via Skype or Zoom
Don’t forget coupon code 2024-Summer-Sale-20%-Off
Use it here: NativeSpeakerTeachers.com
The next sale won’t be until the end of September, so a long way off!