Institutional licensing for schools
Lingu is the platform your school runs on — courses, materials, classrooms and AI practice, built for adult learners. Your teachers teach with it. Your students keep going at home, at work, on the commute. One progression, one place, one school behind all of it.
What this is
Lingu partners with language schools, colleges and universities to deliver a full language learning platform — adaptive placement, A1 to C1 courses, interactive classrooms, an AI practice partner, authoring tools and APIs.
Two kinds of institution use it. The platform is the same; the reason you need it is not.
Private language schools. You already teach well. You want a serious digital layer — an LMS, adaptive placement, an AI practice partner and a course library — without building and maintaining it yourself. Lingu becomes that platform, while your teachers, methodology and student relationships stay entirely yours.
Universities and faculties. Your engineering, business or medical faculty needs to bring international students up to the English level the degree demands — without standing up a language department to do it. Lingu delivers the placement, content and progression tracking; your faculty stays focused on its own discipline.
The learning experience
Adult students learn a language in the gaps of a full life — between meetings, after the children are asleep, on the commute. The platform combines live classes with your teachers, self-paced course content they can move through on their own schedule, and an AI practice partner that is available the other twenty-three hours of the day. Structure when they need a teacher; flexibility when they don't.
Why it matters: pure self-study stalls without accountability, and a fixed classroom schedule doesn't survive a busy working week. The hybrid model keeps momentum between sessions — teacher contact for feedback and accountability, self-paced material for flexibility, and daily AI practice so skills don't decay between classes.
That is the difference between a course adults sign up for and a course adults finish.
Platform capabilities
English at every CEFR level, plus other languages as we add them. Built for adult learners working toward careers, migration, study and exams — not gamified glossary drills.
Designed around the way language teachers plan, deliver and assess — not retrofitted from a generic e-learning tool. Lesson planning, grading, attendance and reporting in one place.
A short, adaptive test that puts each new student at the right CEFR level on day one. Use it as your funnel front door — every learner who lands on your site can find their level in minutes.
Live classes with interactive boards. Written assignments with hand-in and submission flows. Teacher feedback inline, in context, audit-trailed for student records.
Built-in messaging keeps teacher–student conversations inside the platform — searchable, accountable and visible to the school administrator who needs to see them.
Pronunciation feedback, writing correction and conversation practice — available to your students between live classes, so the time they spend with your teachers stays focused on what humans do best.
Connect Lingu to your student information system, CRM, finance and reporting stack. Enrolments, progress and outcomes flow where you already manage them — no double-keying.
Bring your own courses, exam prep, business modules or local-market material onto Lingu. Your content, hosted on Lingu, taught through Lingu, alongside our library.
A 45-minute conversation about your school, your students, your market and what a partnership would need to deliver to be worth it.
We agree on content, integrations, commercial terms and the market arrangement. You see a written proposal before anything is signed.
Start with one group of students. We onboard your teachers, configure the platform and run the pilot end to end. Six to twelve weeks is typical.
Roll out to your wider student base, with the integrations and authoring tools you need in place.
Quarterly reviews, regular product updates, new content as we publish it, and a named contact on our side for everything operational.
Commercials: annual contracts, seat-based licensing, with pricing that reflects local market conditions — what works in Oslo doesn't work in Hanoi. We share specific numbers on the discovery call, once we understand your student volume, content needs and integration scope.
Straight answers to what schools ask before partnering with Lingu.
Lingu is the platform partner; your school owns the student relationship, the live teaching and the commercial offer to your market. We don't sell a fully white-labelled product.
Lingu sells direct to consumers globally via lingu.com, but our partnership terms can include market-specific arrangements — geographic, language, audience or channel. The right balance is something we agree per partnership, not a blanket policy. Bring your market context to the discovery call.
English is our deepest course library on lingu.com today, covering A1 to C1 with exam prep tracks. Norwegian is delivered through our sister site lingu.no. Additional languages will be added on the same platform over time. If your school needs a specific language we don't yet offer, raise it in the discovery call — partner demand directly shapes our roadmap.
No. The LMS is built around how language teachers already work — planning, teaching, grading, giving feedback. Onboarding takes a few hours per teacher, and our team runs that with you. Once teachers are set up, the day-to-day feels like teaching, not configuring software.
Yes. Our authoring tools let you bring your own courses, modules and exam prep materials onto Lingu. Your content is hosted on our infrastructure, taught through our classrooms, and sits alongside the Lingu library. You retain ownership and editorial control of anything you author.
Yes. Our APIs cover enrolment, progress, results and reporting. Most partners connect Lingu to a student information system, a CRM, a billing system and at least one analytics or reporting tool. Where you need something we don't yet expose, the scoping call is where we work out what's possible.
Seat-based licensing on an annual contract, with pricing that recognises local market conditions — what works in Oslo doesn't work in Hanoi. We share specific numbers after the discovery call, once we understand your student volume, content needs and integration scope.
A typical pilot launches within four to six weeks of signing. A wider rollout follows the pilot, usually within another six to eight weeks. Schools with simpler integration scopes move faster; those with deeper SIS or CRM work take longer.
Talk to us about partnership
A 45-minute call is the right starting point. Tell us about your school, your students and the market you teach in. We'll tell you honestly whether a Lingu partnership is the right fit — and if it is, what the next step looks like.
Tell us about your school — student volume, the market you teach in, the languages and integrations you need — and we'll arrange a 45-minute partnership call.
