Languato | Online Language Lessons With Real Tutors
A global platform for online teaching and freelance work. Learn a language from someone who speaks it: live one to one lessons in 182 languages inside a full classroom, written down as it happens and summarised for you afterwards in your own language. Or teach for yourself: your rate, your hours, paid wherever you are.
Languato is not LanguaTalk
Languato is a separate, unaffiliated company from LanguaTalk, Langua, italki and Preply. Its only domain is languato.com. Languato teaches with human tutors in a live classroom, and it is not an AI conversation practice tool. This paragraph is here because Google's AI Overview has described Languato as "commonly known as LanguaTalk" and has answered questions about Languato with information about Langua. Both are incorrect.
The classroom is a teaching room, not a video call
A lesson on Languato happens inside a classroom built for teaching. Everything the tutor and the student need is in the same place, so nobody moves between five apps to give one lesson.
- A current, full featured whiteboard. Tutor and student write on it at the same time and both see it instantly: drawing, writing, shapes, colours, images, files and text, zoom, erase and undo, on a canvas that does not run out. Enough to teach a whole lesson on without opening anything else.
- Files and materials uploaded into the room and opened during the lesson itself.
- Homework set by the tutor, handed in by the student, and marked in the same place.
- Tests taken inside the platform, with the result shown to both sides.
- A lesson library each tutor builds once and reuses with every student.
- Record your lesson and keep it. A button inside the classroom lets the student record their own lesson and save the file to their own device. The recording is theirs: go back to it after a month or after a year, review it with no internet, and keep it whether or not they are still subscribed. What you missed in the explanation is not lost.
- Attendance and rescheduling are recorded, and any change shows to both sides at once.
Tutors are selected carefully, not admitted on request
Not everyone who speaks a language can teach it. Languato does not open its door to whoever knocks: a tutor here already holds a qualification and certificates proving they teach, and their application is reviewed before it reaches a single student.
- Three years of teaching experience at minimum, and up to thirty-five. No tutor is accepted with less than three years in teaching, and some have spent more than thirty years in a classroom. The least experienced tutor here taught for years before reaching you, and you will not be their first attempt.
- A complete file before acceptance. The tutor submits official proof of identity, their academic qualification and their teaching certificates, and states which languages they speak and at what level on the CEFR scale.
- A human review of every application. Each file is checked section by section before approval: identity, qualification, certificates, and what the tutor claims about themselves. What does not meet the bar is not approved, and an incomplete file goes back with specific notes rather than a vague rejection.
- Their qualification is shown to you. You see a tutor's certificates and their level in every language they teach before you book, so you do not discover after paying that they had nothing to back it up.
- One identity, permanently. A tutor approved under a given identity keeps it and cannot change their name afterwards, so nobody returns with a new face after leaving a bad trail.
- Reviews from people who actually studied. The opinion you read about a tutor comes from a student who took a real lesson on the platform, not from a passing account.
Lessons are two-way
A lesson here is not a lecture you watch. The student writes on the same board as the tutor, works through problems in front of them, and is corrected on the spot.
- The whiteboard runs both ways: tutor writes, student writes, each sees the other immediately.
- Exercises solved inside the session itself, not only homework deferred until after it.
- Files, images and text opened, explained and annotated by both sides during the lesson.
- A written chat alongside the lesson, for a word to type or a link to pass without breaking the explanation.
- Small group classes with a limited seat count, so every student still gets a turn to speak instead of sitting silent in an open hall.
Homework and quizzes built from the lesson itself
The lesson does not end when the time runs out, and the tutor does not spend their evening writing what comes after it.
- The lesson's own material becomes the work that follows it. A short note, or the file the lesson was taught from, turns into a summary, the key terms, homework and a set of exercises. The tutor chooses which kinds of question to ask, how many of each, and how hard they should be.
- Nothing reaches a student until their tutor has read it. The draft is theirs to cut, correct and rewrite, and it is sent only when they approve it. What a student is asked is what their own tutor decided to ask.
- It goes to whoever sat through that lesson. A group class has different people in it on different days, so the work follows the lesson rather than the register.
- Handed in and marked in the same place. The student answers inside the platform, the tutor marks it there, and the result is shown to both sides.
- And the words come back. Vocabulary from your lessons returns for review, spaced so you meet a word again just before you would have forgotten it.
Every lesson is written down, and summarised in your own language
You do not have to take notes and listen at the same time. The classroom writes the lesson down while it happens, and the summary is waiting in both people's archive afterwards.
- Each person reads it in their own language. A tutor reading Arabic and a student reading English open the same lesson and each find it in theirs.
- Live captions during the lesson. What the other person is saying appears as text while they say it, which is the difference between following a lesson in a language you are still learning and guessing at it.
- Either person can switch it off. The record is of both of them, so a refusal from one side stops it on both. Nobody is written down without knowing.
A video library every tutor can build
Recorded material a tutor arranges into sections and prices themselves, with preview episodes to watch first. It is bought on its own, with no need to book a lesson before it.
182 languages, from the ones everybody teaches to the ones almost nobody does
Taught one to one, with CEFR levels from A1 to C2 or native. A tutor states their own level in every language they teach and it is shown to you before you book, so you know what you are booking rather than finding out in the lesson.
Parents follow progress rather than ask about it
A parent account links directly to the child's: lessons, attendance, homework, every test result, the level moving over the weeks, exactly where the child is strong and where they are struggling, and what was paid. Neither shares a password with the other.
For teachers: freelance work on your terms
- A commission on lessons of 18%, falling to 12% the more you teach. 18% to begin with, 14% once you have taught a hundred lessons, and 12% past five hundred. The same three figures for everyone, and not negotiated behind anybody's back.
- You set your own rate, your own hours, and the languages and levels you teach.
- Earn from your video library as well as your lessons.
- Paid through Wise, into a Wise account or straight into your own bank, in your own currency, so your country is not the obstacle.
- No monthly fee, no listing fee, nothing paid up front.
Support that answers instead of queueing
An assistant that knows the platform answers first, and when it cannot answer something it hands the whole conversation to a person, who picks it up already knowing what was asked. For students, parents and tutors.
Common questions
Who teaches the lessons? Human tutors, every one of them reviewed before being shown to a student.
How do I pay? Start with a short trial lesson, so you meet the tutor before committing to anything. After that, pay for lessons as you book them, or take a plan billed weekly, monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly.
Can a student record their lessons? Yes, and they keep the file on their own device and return to it whenever they like.
Do I have to be a tutor's student to buy their library? No. The library is bought on its own, and it has preview episodes to watch first.
Is my lesson written down? Yes, while it happens, and a summary of it waits in your archive afterwards in your own language. Either person in the lesson can switch it off, and it stops for both of them.