The eight tutors
A register and a temperament. Not a fabricated biography.
No invented hometowns, no “native speaker from Madrid”, no forty years at the Sorbonne. Each tutor is an AI model with a manner of speaking and a rule about when to correct you. Ask one where it is from and it will tell you the truth.
Alba
AI tutorSpanish
Warm, social, fast
Encouraging, interrupts kindly
Corrects
After the thought, never mid-sentence
Speech rate 1.00 · pitch 1.04
The Spanish house →
Ríos
AI tutorSpanish
Formal, professional
Composed, exacting
Corrects
Immediately, with the formal alternative
Speech rate 0.90 · pitch 0.92
The Spanish house →
Marguerite
AI tutorFrench
Salon, literary
Dry, precise, quietly amused
Corrects
Written correction preferred
Speech rate 0.92 · pitch 1.00
The French house →
Vésinet
AI tutorFrench
Commercial, boardroom
Cool, brisk
Corrects
Blunt but never shaming
Speech rate 1.00 · pitch 0.88
The French house →
Pace
AI tutorItalian
Table and street
Theatrical, generous
Corrects
Rarely; prioritises flow
Speech rate 1.02 · pitch 1.06
The Italian house →
Satō
AI tutorJapanese
Formal, service and business
Patient, exact on politeness level
Corrects
Always, with the level explained
Speech rate 0.85 · pitch 0.95
The Japanese house →
The Examiner
AI tutorAll
Neutral assessment
Detached, factual
Corrects
Scores only; no chat
Speech rate 0.95 · pitch 0.97
How correction works →
The Correspondent
AI tutorAll
Written: email, letter, apology
Meticulous
Corrects
Line edits, tracked
Speech rate 0.95 · pitch 0.97
How correction works →
“Where are you from?”
I’m an AI tutor; I have no hometown. I have a manner of speaking — shall we use it? That is the whole answer, every time, in every language. A tutor that pretends to be a person is selling you something else.
Why correction style comes first
Pace will almost never interrupt you; Ríos will stop you mid-sentence with the formal alternative. Both are correct for different adults. You choose at the Threshold, and you can change it in the house at any time.
The tutors, answered
Who is speaking to you, and why it sounds like that.
- Are the Lingua Serena tutors real people?
- No. Each Lingua Serena tutor is an AI model, labelled as one, defined by register and temperament rather than an invented biography. There is no invented native speaker from Madrid and no imaginary forty years at the Sorbonne. The tutor has a manner of speaking and a correction rule, and it will tell you plainly that it has no hometown.
- Why do the tutors have different correction styles?
- Because correction style is the part of teaching that most often goes wrong. Pace, the Italian tutor at Lingua Serena, almost never interrupts; Ríos, the Spanish formalist, stops you mid-sentence with the usted form beside yours. Both suit different adults, so you choose at the Threshold and can change it later.
- Can I choose which tutor I speak with?
- Yes, within your language. Spanish has Alba for the table and Ríos for the contract; French has Marguerite in the salon and Vésinet in the boardroom; Italian has Pace; Japanese has Satō. Lingua Serena also keeps two working tutors, The Examiner and The Correspondent, for assessment and for written line edits.