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Your group has questions. This one is very specifically yours.

If you take group classes with Lingoda, you may have a personal situation you want to rehearse in detail. Perhaps a family visit is coming up. Perhaps you need to describe your unusually specific hobby without making it sound like a confession.

A focused private session can give that situation its own time. Start by defining what you want to work on.

Write the scene before the script

Tell the teacher who you will speak with, what you want to communicate and what makes the situation difficult.

For example: “I want to explain a dietary preference politely at a family meal, then understand the questions people might ask.”

There is no need to include sensitive personal information. A teacher can rehearse a similar fictional situation if that feels more comfortable.

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Give the session one main job

Ask to work through the exchange, identify useful phrases and repeat it with a change. You might vary the other person's question or explain the same idea more simply.

Afterward, keep a small set of expressions and one practice task. Do not turn a specific need into a demand to fix your entire French in one sitting.

If you already have several learning commitments, check whether another session fits your time and budget. Supplemental teaching should have a clear purpose.

Personal attention can contribute to collective access

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Nattive offers private Spanish, French and German lessons that help fund free group English teaching through Classroom. We are working toward 100,000 hours for learners who cannot afford private language education.

The two formats serve different people. Your private session addresses your goals; the Classroom contribution helps build toward separate English courses.

If that model fits your values, choose a suitable teacher and bring your scene. Check availability, price and booking conditions before paying. There is no course-credit transfer or partnership with Lingoda implied.

Your question can be very personal. The mission it contributes to can be shared.

Find French, German or Spanish lessons.

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

hours funded
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hours delivered
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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.