Educational Vision

Language learning works best when you bring together speaking, feedback, and self-study.

1. Speak, speak, speak

Every lesson is based on real-life situations, and you'll talk. A lot!

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2. Personal learning plan

We track your difficulties, and adapt your learning plan to your interests.

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3. Structured learning materials

It is essential to have a solid course structure and a recommended learning plan. From A1 till C2.

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You need a personal teacher who knows you.

You need a personal teacher who knows you.

Every student has a personal teacher for conversation practice who adapts the curriculum monthly.

You need to train real situations.

You need to train real situations.

We focus on conversation and real-life situations to help you become independent quickly.

You need a clear learning plan

You need a clear learning plan

We follow the CEFR syllabus with official grammar and vocabulary for test preparation (DELE, DELF, NT2, Goethe, CILS, ...), adapted into practical, real-life exercises.

Immersive learning

Immersive learning

We prioritize real-life immersion like websites, news articles, songs, online platforms,... to help you experience the language in (cultural) context. You’ll find also example phrases and listening materials that help you train vocabulary with real conversations.

Clear progress in every skill.

Clear progress in every skill.

We track your progress in writing, reading, speaking, and listening, then adapt your learning path to match your needs.

Our learning goals

All our learning materials are conversational but structured according to CEFR and language-specific guidelines. All about our learning materials.

Below you find a summary of what you should master per CEFR level to obtain a level certificate. Do not worry, we implement those theoretical guidelines in fun and interactive exercises.

CEFR Level Practical situations coLanguage Method Learning materials Grammar Focus Verb Tenses
A1: Students need structured guidance with high-frequency vocabulary in daily situations to develop quickly confidence.
  • Introducing oneself
  • Counting and time.
  • Describing objects and people.
  • Discussing daily routines
  • Describing your home and surroundings.
  • Common situations in the city.
Outcomes:
  • Engage in simple dialogues
  • Ask and express basic needs.
  • Everyday life vocabulary.
  • 45 conversation classes
  • 15 recap lessons
  • +/-40 hours self-study
= +/- 100 recommended study hours

+/-600 new words
  • Visual matching activities: flashcards, words to pictures, phrases to translations,...
  • Fill-in-the-blanks and multiple-choice exercises.
  • Basic pronunciation with simple texts.
  • Guided dialogues with missing words.
  • Sentence building with word-order exercises.
  • Role-playing daily scenarios.
  • Conditional sentences (type zero)
  • Articles
  • Nouns and adjectives
  • Basic pronouns
  • Time and place prepositions
  • Question words
  • Basic comparatives
  • Simple questions and negations
  • Passive voice in the present tense
  • Reported speech in the present
  • Recognizing verb types
  • All modal verbs
  • Present tense (regular and irregular)
  • Present Perfect (basic introduction)
  • Future: Auxiliary verb + infinitive
A2: A2 learners need to understand context, improve sentence formation, expand vocabulary and train active listening and speaking.
  • Travel situations.
  • Describe states, needs and emotions.
  • Everyday transactions and services
  • Household, free time and daily life
  • Basic study and work vocabulary
  • Talking about past experiences and future plans
Outcomes:
  • You can express needs and wishes.
  • Can exchange basic information in simple talks.
  • You can manage most daily situations.
  • 45 conversation classes
  • 15 recap modules
  • 40 hours self-study
= +/- 100 recommended study hours

+/-800 new words
  • Short reading comprehension with Q&A and true-false.
  • Error corrections in basic sentences or multiple-choice.
  • Dialogue and sentence completion exercises (fill-in-the-blanks).
  • Contextual vocabulary training.
  • Guided speaking practice.
  • Categorization tasks: group words, recognize word categories,...
  • Listening tasks to identify main ideas with dialogues, announcements or other simple real-life texts.
  • Conditional sentences (first type)
  • Comparative and superlative (regular and irregular)
  • Adverbs of time, place, manner, frequency, and degree
  • Possessive adjectives & pronouns
  • Extended conjunctions
  • Impersonal form
  • Reported speech with simple past tenses (non-compound past).
  • Past participles (irregular forms)
  • Conditional tense introduction
  • Giving (negative) commands
  • Indicative future and past tenses (simple, non-compound)
  • Introduction to subjunctive & hypothetical forms
B1: The step from A2 from B1 is the highest as it require independence and fluency with exposure to real-world interactions.
  • Engage in formal and informal conversations.
  • Usage of all modern media.
  • Discuss your dreams, interests and plans.
  • Manage finances, family, home and adult life.
  • Make complaints.
  • Sharing personal experiences
Outcomes:
  • Describe daily routines, past experiences, and future plans in detail.
  • Express opinions, preferences, and justify choices in conversations.
  • Maintain longer conversations and discuss familiar and abstract topics.
  • Understand and respond to common expressions, instructions, and opinions.
  • 60 lessons
  • 20 recap modules
  • 120 hours self-study
= +/- 200 study hours

+/-2000 new words
  • Listen to longer and more detailed listening materials. Identify and debate main ideas.
  • Advanced role-play activities: Job interview, contract arrangements, booking activities,...
  • Opinion-based writing tasks: Express your preferences, justify choices, express pros and cons,...
  • Sentence transformation exercises: passive to active voice, direct to indirect speech,...
  • Word formation exercises: Verbs to nouns, nouns to adjectives,...
  • Summarizing short texts in own words.
  • Speaking and writing drills: describe an image in 1 minute, write a short text/email,...
  • Debate activities with structured argumentation.
  • Conditional sentences (second type)
  • Indirect speech
  • Relative clauses
  • Modal verbs (should, might, would,...)
  • Basic phrasal verbs
  • Passive voice with compound past tenses and modal verbs.
  • Reported speech with past perfect and modal verbs.
  • Advanced formal and informal imperatives.
  • Present perfect continuous
  • Past Continuous
  • Future Continuous
  • Past Perfect (basic)
  • Past Subjunctive & Hypothetical forms
B2
  • Job interviews
  • Writing formal emails
  • Debating opinions
  • Discussing abstract topics
Outcomes:
  • Understand complex ideas
  • Interact fluently
  • Explain viewpoints in detail
  • 60 lessons
  • 20 recap modules
  • 120 hours self-study
  • 200 total study hours
= +/- 200 study hours

+/-4000 new words
  • Open questions
  • Discussions
  • Open writing assignments
  • Engagement with books, real news articles,...
  • Conditional sentences (type three)
  • Expanded reported speech
  • Modal verbs in the past
  • Complex relative clauses
  • Passive voice in formal, hypothetical and complex structures
  • Reported speech with subjunctive and hypothetical scenarios
  • Full knowledge of all regular and irregular verbs.
  • All compound tenses: past, future and compound.

Our learning plans

  • Professional and native teachers
  • Academically trained
  • Flexible class schedule

All our teachers are academically trained and studied at leading universities.

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Universiteit Utrecht
Radboud Universiteit
Universiteit Groningen
Universiteit Leiden
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Uniwersytet Łódzki
Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Uniwersytet Gdański
Università di Roma
Università degli Studi di Padova
Università degli Studi di Milano
Università di Bologna
Università degli Studi di Pisa
Università degli Studi di Torino
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Trento
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Universität Freiburg
Universität zu Köln
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Universität Leipzig
Freie Universität Berlin
Universität Tübingen
Universität Hamburg
Sorbonne Université
Université Lyon 2
Université de Strasbourg
Université Aix-Marseille
Université Toulouse
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Université de Lille
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universitat de Barcelona
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Universidad de Salamanca
Universidad de Granada
Universidad de Alcalá
Universidad de Valencia
Universidad de La Laguna
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of Edinburgh
University of Manchester
University of York
University of Sheffield
University of Leeds
Queen Mary University of London
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