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Nattive

Big mission. Fair questions. Bring both.

If you already pay for lessons on Preply, a new platform's social mission may catch your attention. Before it earns your booking, it should answer a few straightforward questions.

We would like you to ask them of Nattive. Our goal is to fund 100,000 hours of live English teaching, and a number that large ought to come with an explanation.

Ask what your purchase contributes to

On Nattive, paid private lessons include a contribution toward Classroom. Contributions are pooled to fund free group English courses for learners in developing countries who cannot afford private language education.

Ask any provider to identify the service, the intended learners and the way a purchase contributes. “Positive change” is a starting sentiment. You should be able to find the details beneath it.

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Separate plans, funding and delivery

A target is what an organization wants to achieve. Funding is what can be allocated toward the work. Delivery is what has actually happened.

For Nattive, one hour means one hour of teacher-led English class time, regardless of how many learners attend. We do not multiply it by the group size to describe our teaching-hour target.

The impact page is the place to check the current position. Read the definitions and dates as well as the large number.

Keep your own lesson in the decision

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A mission should not distract you from checking the teacher, lesson price, available times and booking terms. The contribution is part of a paid learning experience, and that learning matters.

Ask yourself whether you can explain both parts in one sentence: “I am booking this lesson to practice ____, and my payment contributes toward ____.”

If the answer is clear, you can make a considered choice. If it is vague, ask for more information.

We are inviting learners who care enough to look closely. Bring the same curiosity you bring to a language lesson. It will be useful here.

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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.