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Private lessons, small group terms, exam preparation, business Italian and Immersive Retreats in Italy — taught by Italian tutors in London and online.
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Italian is learned for love, and used for life.
The Italian a buyer in Puglia needs is not the Italian a sixth-former needs in May. We start by working out which one you are after, then match a tutor from our network who teaches that well.
Examinations we prepare for in Italian: GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and IB Italian, and the CILS and CELI certifications. See Italian exam preparation.
Buying, renovating or retiring in Italy runs on conversations with builders, notaries and neighbours. That is a specific Italian, and it can be taught directly.
Several routes require certified language evidence. We prepare for the examinations rather than hoping general lessons cover it.
Whole industries still run in Italian. Reading a supplier's email properly changes the commercial relationship.
The most common reason of all, and a perfectly good one. Enjoyment is why people keep going, and keeping going is what produces fluency.
What we offer
Choose the route that matches what you are trying to achieve — the format follows from the goal, not the other way round.
One specialist, matched from our network, and a programme written around your goal.
Private Italian tuition in London or online, at any level. Your specialist is matched from the Italian teachers already selected into our network, you meet them on a chemistry call, and the programme is built from what you actually need to do in Italian.
From £64/hr
Flexi £75/hr for 4 hours (£300); Mastery £64/hr for 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£3,060). VAT included.
Ten-week terms, never more than six people in the room.
Structured, conversation, business and exam groups in Italian, live in Central London and online, Tuesdays to Thursdays. Levels run from complete beginner through to advanced.
From £690 / term
Entry point: the B1–B2 conversation club. 10 × 90-minute sessions — 15 teaching hours — per learner. VAT included. Structured courses £790–£910, group exam preparation £950.
Technique for the paper in front of you, not general fluency.
Preparation built backwards from the exam date and the specification your school or institution actually follows, with a tutor who knows the mark scheme.
From £89/hr
Private preparation £105/hr for 4 hours, £89/hr for 48 hours used within up to 12 months. Group exam terms £950 for ten weeks.
Language that holds up in the meeting, not just the lesson.
Programmes for executives and teams, scheduled around real diaries, with progress reporting for whoever is sponsoring the training.
From £120/hr
Executive one-to-one from £120/hr on 4 hours (£480), £102/hr on 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£4,896); open business group terms from £950 per person for ten weeks. VAT included.
Why Learn&Co is different
"Everyone comes to language learning for a reason — but what keeps people going is how it makes them feel. Seen. Capable. Connected. That's what we create at Learn&Co."
Life in the language
Food, family, region and history are not decoration around the grammar — they are the content of the language. Your tutor brings them in from the first lesson, because that is how Italian is actually used.
Standard Italian in the lesson, with enough of the north and south that real conversations do not surprise you.
Structured speaking practice in every lesson. Italians will meet you halfway; you need enough to start.
Cookery, cinema, football or opera — the practice material is chosen from what you already care about.
Beyond the lesson
Italian is learned properly at a table, in a market and in an argument about how long the pasta should have been in the water. Two Learn&Co routes take you to Italy itself: a week of immersion for adults, and curated trips and exchanges for schools.
A week in Italy where nobody switches to English out of politeness.
Structured mornings with your tutor, then afternoons and evenings that are simply Italian life: the alimentari, the passeggiata, a kitchen where you are handed a knife and expected to keep talking. Buyers, renovators and lapsed learners all come home speaking differently.
Italy as the classroom — Rome, Florence, Bologna or the Veneto.
Partner-school exchanges and study trips built with heads of MFL: art, history and food used as language work rather than sightseeing, with host families, safeguarding, risk assessment and pastoral care handled end to end.
The Learn&Co method
We do not go looking for a Italian tutor once you enquire. The selection has already happened: our network is built slowly, from specialists we have interviewed, observed and chosen to work with — for their teaching, not simply their passport.
What happens after your enquiry is the second layer. Maria listens first — your goal, your level, your temperament, your timetable — and then chooses the specialist inside that network who fits the brief. You meet them on a chemistry call before anything is committed, and the programme is written around your life from there.
Our tutor matching is reviewed by The Good Schools Guide.
Italian specialists we have already interviewed, referenced and chosen — vetted for teaching skill, subject depth and the ability to adapt.
Maria hears the brief first — what you need Italian for, by when, and how you like to learn.
The specialist inside the network who suits your goal, level and temperament is named to you, with Maria overseeing the match — no rota, no algorithm, no directory to scroll.
You meet the tutor before anything is booked. Progress reports, founder check-ins and rematching if the fit ever stops working.
Corporate clients
Language programmes delivered inside law firms, hedge funds, publishing houses and global property groups.
Partner schools
Exam preparation, tutor placement and curated exchanges with demanding independent schools here and with partner schools across Europe.
Real clients, real results
Verified Google reviews from Learn&Co Italian clients.
“I found Learn&Co when searching for someone to help me rediscover my lapsed Italian language. Maria was totally professional whilst being warm and approachable. She assessed my requirements and found me the perfect tutor. Having spoken…”
Investment
Every route is priced on its own model — monthly for tuition, per term for groups, per programme for travel. The figures below are the starting points; the full private plans, with the saving for a longer commitment, sit on the private tuition page.
Flexi £75/hr for 4 hours (£300); Mastery £64/hr for 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£3,060). VAT included.
From £64/hr
Entry point: the B1–B2 conversation club. 10 × 90-minute sessions — 15 teaching hours — per learner. VAT included. Structured courses £790–£910, group exam preparation £950.
From £690 / term
Private preparation £105/hr for 4 hours, £89/hr for 48 hours used within up to 12 months. Group exam terms £950 for ten weeks.
From £89/hr
Executive one-to-one from £120/hr on 4 hours (£480), £102/hr on 48 hours used within up to 12 months (£4,896); open business group terms from £950 per person for ten weeks. VAT included.
From £120/hr
Per person, all-inclusive of the programme, quoted by departure.
From £6,915
Per student, depending on destination, duration and group size. Proposed school by school.
From £790
All figures include VAT. Private tuition prices are based on one hour a week online; group terms run for ten weeks with never more than six people. Immersion and school programmes are quoted per departure, against destination, duration, accommodation and group size.
Discuss a programmeBefore you book
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Tell Maria what you want to be able to do in Italian, and by when. She will tell you honestly which route gets you there, and introduce the tutor she would match you with.
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