With individual English Zoom lessons, you can go as fast or as slow as you like. You are free to organize the lessons in accordance with your busy schedule. Individualized attention means you learn faster.

Our live group English lessons follow a fixed schedule and enable you to benefit from learning from classmates of the same level. You’ll meet new and interesting people and explore your love of the English language together.

We work with HR to train your employees in the language and cultural skills they will need to make your company successful on the world market. Our timely tracking and reporting system allows you to monitor progress.

You will envy the ability of your children to quickly learn new Engish words. Children’s lessons are structured with an eye to the developing mind and to making the environment a fun and productive one.

English is without a doubt the most useful language to learn for anyone hoping to succeed in their career, explore the world of culture, art and science, appreciate the latest works of theater, cinema or television, or even simply surf the Internet.

English has the virtue of being a fairly easy language to learn, with little in the way of verb conjugations or noun declensions. It syntax and sentence structure are simple and English learners are usually refreshed by the absence of genders. Finally, English is common that opportunities to practice it abound.

But, but, but….English can also be a bit trying, too, right? Many words aren’t pronounced the way they are written, so learns often go crazy trying to understand the logic of English spelling. Since English has been influenced by so many different languages, it often many different words for the same concept and learners often have difficulty knowing which word to use.

In some ways it’s easy to learn and in other ways it isn’t.

On the one hand, it’s such a common language that you have a lot of opportunities to practice it. Most of the popular music we listen to is composed directly in English, as are the most popular TV shows, movies, musicals, books and so on. It is commonly used as a lingua franca by speakers of other languages doing business or traveling, so even if you don’t speak French or German, you’ll have no problem getting by in Berlin or Paris.

However, to speak it well is incredibly challenging. Lots of people get by in English, but few, unfortunately thrive in English. Many go through their daily lives speaking English without any knowledge of how phrasal verbs work or how to express themselves with any number of important idiomatic expressions. Still others struggle with pronunciation problems because their “strong foreign accent” makes it difficult for them to be understood, for them to get their point across quicky in a meeting or on the phone.

These are problems, fortunately, that can be solved with the help of a good teacher and a good language school.

It’s important to be clear about this! Ciao Languages does not offer “online lessons,” where you go and consult a bunch of exercises on your phone or watch pre-recorded videos.

All of our English Zoom lessons are “live”, i.e., held by a native speaker of English who interacts with you directly.

The advantage is that you the student get immediate feedback on your pronunciation and on what it’s like to have an actual conversation in English.

You may learn a bit of grammar from an application like Babbel or Duolingo, but those systems do not really give you a sense of what it’s like to speak to a native in the language.

At Ciao Languages, we believe it’s important to interact with people who grew up speaking the language you are learning.

By “native speaking teacher,” we mean someone who was born and raised in an English-speaking country, was educated there and has spent of deal of their lives thinking, understanding and speaking English.

Undoubtedly, there are people who speak English really well, and who are really good teachers, but at Ciao Langauges we want you the student to have the chance to have authentic interactions with a live English tutor who will give you the authentic experience of speaking and communicating in English.

Our live English tutors are from all over the English-speaking world. From London, Los Angeles, El Paso and Cape Town – you’ll come into contact with a full range of regional accents and outlooks on life. Your language lesson will be more than a conversation with a native speaker, but an authentic cultural experience.

The Ciao Languages approach is a system of best practices, techniques and attitudes that the owner and Ciao Languages Founder and CEO Sean Cook has molded into a unique and effective teaching method. His experiences as a learner of Italian and French, as the owner of a language school and as a teacher trainer have informed his method, which is based on empathy, encouragement and student engagement.

By designing lessons with the specific needs of online Zoom lessons in mind, Ciao Languages makes the virtual lesson a live human experience.

The lesson slide decks that are used by the teacher contain explanations, as well as exercises and speaking practice activities that enable the student to immediately put new language into use.

At Ciao Languages teachers are trained to strike a balance between the need for the student to be accurate and to become fluent in the language they are learning.

We also firmly believe in making students feel as comfortable as possible during our lessons so that they can feel free to experiment with English and to engage in authentic communication with their English tutor.

What’s included?

• Live Zoom lessons with a native speaking English tutor
• Access to the recordings of all of your English Zoom lessons
• Access to the Ciao Languages Student Resource Center
• Access to the Mango Languages application

It would be dishonest of us to say otherwise, so YES, you need to study.

Think of it this way. Can you become good at playing the piano if you don’t practice every week? Can you lose weight without following a diet and/or an exercise regimen? Can you grow the muscles in your arm without lifting some weights or doing some push-ups?

But then again, when you start learning a language, there are just a few things to learn, so the amount of time you study is relatively little, maybe even about ten or fifteen minutes a day.

Our experience has been this, though: Students start studying English and then get really into it and somehow find the time to study a lot. Rome was not built in a day, though. So, just get started and with time, you’ll find yourself studying joyfully and willingly, with results commensurate with your efforts.

And we will be there to cheer you on!

We’ll cheer you for your successes when you have a break-through.

We’ll give you the encouragement you need when you are getting frustrated. When you’re feeling frustrated, by the way, is usually what you feel just before a break-through – so be patient with yourself!

We’re in it together with you!