Japanese and Korean, taught properly

You pick the teacher you would like to meet, and tell us what you are aiming for and roughly where you are now — including "complete beginner, I don't know anything yet", which is a perfectly normal place to start. Your teacher reads that before you meet, and plans around it.

Then it is just the two of you for 35 minutes: a real lesson, not a sales call. You will get a sense of how the teaching feels, and we will get a sense of what you need.

If it turns out we are not the right fit, that is a useful answer too — and it has cost you nothing to find out.

Lessons happen over Zoom. You will get the link with your booking confirmation — no separate app to install, no software to learn, nothing to configure.

Headphones help. A quiet-ish room helps. Beyond that, come as you are. You do not need a textbook before your first lesson, and you do not need to have decided on a study plan — working that out together is part of what the first lesson is for.

TODO — describe the teachers' qualifications and background here. (Placeholder: degrees, teaching certifications, years of professional experience, institutions taught at.)

What the numbers say plainly: our longest-serving teacher has taught over 6,800 lessons here. That is not a headline figure — it is what it looks like when someone has spent years watching where learners get stuck, and knows what usually works next.

The approach is unhurried and grammar-aware: building the foundations properly so that the language holds together later, rather than drilling phrases that fall apart the moment a conversation goes off-script. Beginners through advanced learners are all welcome.

After a lesson, your teacher writes to you — what you worked on, what went well, what to look at before next time. It arrives in a message thread that stays there.

That thread is the part students tell us they did not expect to value so much. Months in, you can scroll back and read what you were struggling with in week two, and see plainly how far that is behind you. You can ask a question between lessons and get a real answer. Nothing you were taught disappears into a call you half-remember.

Languages are not learned in a burst of enthusiasm. They are learned by turning up, week after week, through the stretch in the middle where progress stops feeling obvious. That middle stretch is where most learners quit — and it is exactly where a teacher who knows you makes the difference.

So we plan for months, not weeks. We keep track of where you are. And when a week goes badly, or life gets in the way, that is treated as a normal part of learning a language rather than a failure of commitment.

Plans change, so cancelling is deliberately forgiving: you can cancel a lesson free of charge up to 6 hours before it starts, and your credit goes straight back. Many schools require 24 hours or more.

Every time and date on the site is shown in your own timezone, not ours — booking a lesson with a teacher in Seoul should not require doing arithmetic. Your lesson credits, their expiry dates, your points and your whole booking history are visible on one page, and we warn you before anything is about to expire.

Standard lessons run 50 minutes. You buy credits and spend them when it suits you — there is no subscription running quietly in the background, and no minimum number of lessons per month.