Frequently Asked Questions

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General

Contact us so we can understand the kind of learner you are and find the best way for you to start learning with us. We will then guide you to clarify your objectives and define a first learning plan. One that corresponds to your day to day life. Something good enough to start and that you will tune every week as you are progressing.

This is your learning, so you will decide how much effort you put in it. A good order of magnitude is probably between 30 and 60 minutes daily, 5 to 7 days a week. So 4 to 5 hours a week. For details on coach-led activities and engagement durations, please look at the course description.

Probably not the way you think of it. You won’t need a teacher as much as you did before. We promote autonomous learning, and define our role in terms of tasks and skills. With our coaches you will learn to learn languages, to get the most of available resources and to create your own learning activities. You will quickly be able to manage by yourself or with your team things that were usually done by traditional teachers. At some key steps of your learning journey, you will need guidance and feedback from people with a native command of the language. From people with experience with learning strategies and expert knowledge of the resources available. Our job is to make sure that, for those specific activities, we bring the right skills to support you.

For the time being, we support you in learning French, Dutch, English, Spanish and Portuguese. We have a separate module to learn any language, but interactions are in English, not in the target language.

Yes, our approach works with all levels. It is actually made to make the most of all your specificities (level, availability, constraints, ambitions, interests…)

In principle, yes. This is how you, your team and us can maintain the flexible and continuous collaboration required for language learning. Physical proximity is usually not a requirement. But this is autonomous learning, so if your team decides that meeting is better, then we will do our max to support you.

Any time. Learners start at their current level and follow their own pace, even in a team.

Maybe. Today, language learning apps are tools that optimise several stages or components of the learning. They work very well and get better every day. Their strength is maybe also your bigger threat : giving an impression of progress inside their own communication environment, not in your real life. We help you understand how they can help your learning and how to build a learning mix that brings real life results. 

Language teams

Every week you meet with your team to debrief on your learning and adjust for the week to come. The discussion is facilitated by the coach. During the week, you apply your learning plan, alone or with other team mates. The team stays continuously in touch to follow progress and help each other. As much as possible everything happens in the target language.

Other learners who are learning the same language, ideally between 3 and 6, the goldilocks of team dynamics.

Any. Level differences are not so important with our approach. Having heterogeneous teams bring several benefits at the time of learning. But before proposing anybody to join an existing team, we carefully discuss the advantages and challenges with the new learner and with the team.

Individual learning

Every week you meet with your coach to debrief on your learning and adjust for the week to come. During the week, you apply your learning plan and stay in touch with your coach to share progress and ask for help if blocked. As much as possible everything happens in the target language.

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