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Our story

Putting Southern African languages online - properly.

Start speaking in 5 minutes, free - then keep going with self-study guides, a Culture Hub, native-speaker tutors and group classes, in 13 Southern African languages.

Founded in Botswana. We’re on a mission to put Southern Africa’s languages within reach of anyone who wants to speak them - helping keep the region’s mother tongues alive, spoken and passed on to the next generation. Every lesson lets a native speaker earn from sharing their language, and helps a learner reconnect with family, culture and heritage.

Our mission

Make learning Setswana, isiZulu or Shona as easy as learning Spanish - and make teaching them a real living. We pay tutors fairly and build with learners and tutors, not just for them.

Built with the community

Our founding tutors shape the platform with us - pricing, how we showcase culture, and payouts across Southern African banks and Mobile Money.

11
Native-speaker tutors, identity-verified
13
Southern African languages, with more on the way
Continuously vetted
Every tutor identity-verified, with ongoing reviews
Why we're building this
Language is how we keep stories, songs and heritage close.

Our job is to make every conversation feel like that - not like another lesson on a screen.

Join us.

Whether you want to learn or teach, you're shaping what Southern African languages look like online.

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