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Your German grammar would like some field experience.

If you study German with Babbel, you may recognize a grammar pattern before you feel comfortable using it aloud. Choose one pattern and ask a teacher to help you put it into a short conversation.

Knowing what the sentence should do and persuading it to do that while someone waits are two different moments in a learner's day.

Give the pattern a job

Pick a practical function: describing yesterday, explaining a preference or saying what you want to do next. Tell your teacher which structure you have been studying and where you lose track.

Prepare a few examples from your own life. They can be simple. Ask the teacher to check them, then use them as starting points for questions.

Work on one thing at a time. A session about a particular structure does not need to become an emergency review of every German ending you have ever encountered.

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Move from prepared to changed

First answer a familiar question. Then have the teacher change the person, time or situation as appropriate to the structure you are practicing.

Notice whether you can make the adjustment. If you cannot, ask for a smaller step or another example. Afterward, try a brief conversation in which the pattern is useful without making every sentence an exercise.

Finish with two personal examples and one question to revisit. Those are more manageable practice notes than a large, undifferentiated list of corrections.

Give the lesson a second purpose

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On Nattive, paid German lessons help fund free group English teaching through Classroom. Our goal is 100,000 hours for learners who cannot afford private language education.

You work on the German you want to use. Your booking contributes toward another learner's access to teaching. Funding is pooled and delivery happens when courses are ready; you can follow progress here.

If you want a teacher to help with the next step, check their level coverage, approach and availability. Bring your one grammar question. It has been waiting patiently for a conversation.

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A commitment we can be measured against

100,000 hours of live English teaching by the end of 2032.

That’s our public mission target. We’ll show the hours we’ve funded, the hours actually delivered and the Classrooms that make up that progress. We want our community to know what their lessons are helping make possible.

See our impact

Every hour counts

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Launching soon

Today: 0 hours delivered. Next milestone: our first Classroom, 8 hours.

Our first Classroom: 8 hours of teaching. Then 100 hours. Then 1,000. Then 10,000. Together, each stage takes us closer to 100,000.

We’re building the first Classroom. Follow our progress as paid lessons help make more teaching possible.

An hour means one hour of teacher-led English class time, whether five or eight learners attend.

The next milestone: our first Classroom

Our first Classroom: 8 hours of teaching. Then 100 hours. Then 1,000. Then 10,000. Together, each stage takes us closer to 100,000.

The next Classroom

Your paid lessons help fund the next four-week English course. See how close we are to covering eight hours of live teaching.

Follow this Classroom

0 of 8 hours funded towards the first Classroom

Teaching starts once courses are funded and scheduled.

How your booking helps

When you book a paid private lesson on Nattive, a Classroom contribution is allocated towards funded English teaching. Contributions are pooled to fund group courses; the teaching takes place when a course is funded, scheduled and delivered.

What happens when I take a lesson?
Part of what you pay goes to the Classroom fund, automatically, with every lesson you book. There's nothing extra to do.
How much goes towards it?
10% of the teacher's lesson price. It's included in the one price you see, and it's never taken from the teacher's pay.
What does it buy?
Teaching time. 8 hours of live English teaching funds one Classroom course, with the teacher paid for every hour.

A £27.50 lesson includes £2.50 for the Classroom, enough to fund 6 minutes of teaching.

Based on a £25 teacher lesson price. The 10% Classroom contribution is included in the price you see and is never taken from the teacher's pay.

Where does the contribution go?

  1. You book

    You choose your teacher and pay for a 1:1 language lesson.

  2. Classroom grows

    A clearly disclosed part of the total supports the Classroom fund.

  3. Teaching is funded

    When a course reaches its funding goal, that money is allocated to eight teacher-led hours.

  4. Teaching happens

    A paid teacher runs the class and we report the time delivered.

Funded and delivered

Classroom courses funded and Classroom courses delivered are two different moments, so we always report them separately.

Funded

Enough money has come in to pay for a Classroom course's 8 teaching hours.

Delivered

The classes have run and the teacher has taken the register.

A one-hour group lesson counts as one teaching hour, regardless of group size.