The private language house
Speak well,
in any room.
For adults who need to be understood in a boardroom, at a dinner, at a hotel desk in Rome, at a gallery opening in Tokyo.
One tutor who remembers you. Four languages, taught to the standard of the rooms you actually stand in. Nine minutes a day, correction the way you asked for it, and no score out of a hundred at the end.
No account to begin · Spanish · French · Italian · Japanese
In the house
Spanish
Two registers, one house.
French
Liaison, and the price of a wrong register.
Italian
Flow first. Corrections second.
Japanese
Politeness is the product, not the extra.
Four languages launched properly, not forty launched thinly.
01 — The rooms
Which room do you need to speak in?
- 01
A dinner table
Compliment, decline, keep the thread with the person on your left.
- 02
A negotiation
Hold a number in a second language without losing the relationship.
- 03
A hotel and a train
Arrive, report a problem, and be understood by someone tired.
- 04
A family
The in-laws, the elder, the joke you do not get the first time.
- 05
A stage
Introduce yourself and your work to a room that is already looking at you.
02 — The four languages
Four languages, four registers.
Breadth is not our moat. Every language here has its own two tutors, twelve scenario rooms, a briefing voice and its own register traps.
ES
Español
Spanish
Warm, social and fast in the room — and the formal register that keeps a negotiation civil.
The Spanish rooms →
FR
Français
French
Salon, literary, dry — and the commercial French of a boardroom that has no patience for it.
The French rooms →
IT
Italiano
Italian
Table and street — theatrical, generous, allergic to hesitation.
The Italian rooms →
JA
日本語
Japanese
Formal, service and business — exact on level, patient with the person.
The Japanese rooms →
03 — The memory
The house remembers you.
After every session the tutor writes one to four short, factual notes. Not personality, not psychology, not how you seem to be feeling. What you told it, and where you stopped.
At the start of the next session it opens with exactly one of them, in your target language, and invites you to continue. Then it stops. Two recalls would read as surveillance rather than warmth.
What the house remembers, and what it refuses toFrom The Ledger
Your daughter marries in Lyon next June.
You freeze on the subjunctive after “ojalá”.
You prefer being corrected at the end of a turn.
Every note is visible to you. Edit it or delete it and it is gone — permanently, immediately, and it never resurfaces.
04 — Nine minutes
Three movements, always in this order.
Recall
The tutor opens with one thing the house remembers about you, said in the target language, and invites you to continue. One recall. Never two — two reads as surveillance rather than warmth.
The Room
A role-play with exactly one objective. Order, decline, negotiate, apologise, introduce. If you achieve the objective, the room moves on. If you do not, you take it again tomorrow.
The Line
One sentence you must say correctly before you leave. You hear it, you say it, and you get a single honest note on it. There is no score out of a hundred at the end of a session.
A session does not end with a number out of a hundred. It ends with one line:
“You held the room for four exchanges. The formal Lei slipped twice. We’ll take it again tomorrow.”
One honest sentence, about the room rather than the person. No badges, no flames, no confetti. Continuity is a quiet line: fourteen days in the house.
05 — The threshold
One session is free.
The house is not.
Choose the room, choose the language, tell the tutor how you want to be corrected. Then ninety seconds of real conversation before you are asked for anything at all.