Italian Lessons in Dursley

Looking for an Italian teacher in Dursley? You’ve found a neighbour. I’m Laura, a native Italian teacher from Catania in Sicily, and Dursley is my home — I teach online over Microsoft Teams from right here in town, so you get a professional, tailored lesson with no travel at all.

Whether you’re starting from scratch, polishing your Italian for a holiday, or reconnecting with the family language, lessons are one-to-one at £30 an hour and built entirely around you — we spend the whole lesson actually speaking.

Learn Italian from anywhere in the UK with live online lessons taught by Laura — a native Italian speaker from Sicily with over 20 years’ teaching experience, fully qualified with QTS, a PGCE and the Cambridge CELTA.

How online lessons work

• Live video lessons — real conversation with a real teacher, not an app
• One-to-one tuition — £30/hour, scheduled around you, Monday to Friday
• Small group courses — £15 per 1.5-hour session, 10-week terms from £150
• Interactive materials — custom resources, BookWidgets and Kahoot activities, all provided

Who they’re for

• Complete beginners building the foundations
• Improvers and returners who want structured conversation practice
• Students preparing for IB Diploma, GCSE or A-level Italian examinations
• Anyone with Italian family, travel plans, or a love of the language

Every lesson is tailored to your goals and level. As a specialist SEN-trained teacher, Laura is particularly experienced at supporting learners who find languages daunting — and at making every session genuinely enjoyable.

Ready to start? Get in touch for a free chat about your level and goals, or meet Laura in her welcome video — wherever you are in the UK.

“Laura is a great teacher — warm, friendly, knowledgeable and encouraging. I really like the style of the lessons with a combination of conversation and worked exercises.”
— Jess  Read all my Google reviews →

Dursley’s Italian connection

Dursley is my home, so this connection feels personal — and it turns out I’m not the first Italian to make this town mine. Around 1960, families from southern Italy — from the province of Benevento, and the village of Foiano — came to Dursley for work at the R. A. Lister factory, the engineering works this town grew up around. Local newspaper stories record couples who met here, married here, and stayed for the rest of their lives.

That little community is still measurable: the 2021 census records a higher share of Italian passport holders in Dursley ward than in any other ward of the Stroud district, and Della Casa keeps la cucina italiana on Parsonage Street today. For a small town on the edge of the Cotswolds, that’s quite a pedigree.

And the connection reaches back much further — the Romans made their mark at West Hill near Uley, a short journey from my front door, and finds from the site, including a fine stone head of Mercury, are now in the British Museum. When we sit down to learn Italian together — online, over Microsoft Teams, from right here in Gloucestershire — we’re reopening a very old conversation.

Common questions

Do you teach in person in Dursley or online?

I live right here in Dursley, and my lessons are online over Microsoft Teams — that way we can pick times that genuinely suit you and you get the whole lesson with no travelling. It’s the best of both: a local teacher, with all the flexibility of learning from your own sofa.

How much do Italian lessons cost in Dursley?

One-to-one lessons are £30 an hour, tailored entirely to you. My ten-week online beginners’ course is £150 altogether — it starts Wednesday 16 September, 5.00 to 6.30pm, in a small friendly group.

I’m a complete beginner — will I cope?

Absolutely. Most of my students start from zero, and you’ll speak Italian in your very first lesson. I’m a qualified teacher (PGCE, QTS, CELTA) with more than twenty years’ experience, and I’m SEN-trained — so if languages felt daunting at school, you’re in safe hands.

Does Dursley really have an Italian connection?

It does — a living one. Around 1960, families from southern Italy settled in Dursley to work at the R. A. Lister factory, and the 2021 census still records a higher share of Italian passport holders in Dursley ward than in any other ward of the Stroud district. Della Casa keeps Italian cooking on Parsonage Street, and the Romans left their mark at West Hill near Uley long before that. I’m proud to add a Sicilian voice to the story.

Nearby: Stroud · Gloucester · Cheltenham · Cirencester · Gloucestershire