Taught by people who love to teach

Emily has spent twelve years turning nervous beginners into confident speakers. She trained at Cambridge, taught in three countries and built Lingua's exam curriculum from scratch. Her lessons run on one rule: you speak more than she does.

• IELTS & Cambridge exams
• Pronunciation
• Beginner coaching

MA Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Born in Bogotá and raised between Medellín and Lisbon, Mateo teaches both European and Latin American Spanish. Expect playlists, street slang, and a strict no-translation rule after week two.

• Latin American variants
• Travel Spanish
• Conversation labs

BA Hispanic Studies, Universidad de los Andes

Claire makes grammar feel like a puzzle worth solving. She spent a decade in Lyon and Bologna writing coursebooks before deciding she missed the classroom, and now she runs our most popular conversation classes.

• DELF/DALF prep
• French for travel
• Italian for food lovers

Master Didactique des langues, Sorbonne Nouvelle

An engineer who became a teacher, Jonas translates the grammar of German into logic engineers recognise. His classes are heavy on real documentation, meetings and the art of a polite email.

• Technical German
• Goethe exams
• Workplace communication

BSc Mechanical Engineering, TU München · MA German as a Foreign Language

Yuki has taught all three writing systems for fourteen years and wrote our kanji bootcamp. Her secret weapon: teaching you to think in patterns instead of translating word by word.

• JLPT & TOPIK
• Business keigo
• Script & kanji systems

MA Japanese Pedagogy, Waseda University

Sofie moved to Belgium at nineteen and learned Dutch the hard way, so she knows exactly where new learners trip. Her classes are loud, fast and full of the phrases nobody puts in textbooks.

• Integration exams
• Pronunciation drilling
• Idioms

BA Dutch Linguistics, Universiteit Antwerpen

Dmitri's case-system workshops have a waiting list. He pairs grammar with short stories and current media so advanced learners finally sound natural instead of textbook-correct.

• Cyrillic fluency
• Case system clarity
• Literature circles

MA Russian Philology, Saint Petersburg State University

Layla teaches the script from day one and never lets learners rely on transliteration. By C2 her classes read newspapers and argue about them, in Arabic.

• Modern Standard Arabic
• Script coaching
• Dialect awareness

MA Arabic Linguistics, American University of Beirut