Linguaviva is a language learning collective rooted in self-care, connection, and collective growth. We believe sustainable learning means honoring the full ecosystem of a language, integrating native speakers of each language as essential parts of a living, reciprocal exchange. Everyone in our collective learns, contributes, and benefits. We give learners a Language Capsule: a curated foundation that is versatile, personalizable, and built for real life. Language is a whole-body experience, and we approach it with intention, beauty, and care.
Linguaviva began with two friends who studied abroad together and later found ourselves doing similar kinds of language work in different parts of the world.
While in grad school, Hannah was asked by a construction company to help their safety supervisors communicate with their Spanish-speaking team on a St. Jude project.
She taught the Spanish they needed to keep people safe. It worked, and then the requests kept coming... English for landscaping, Spanish for healthcare etc.
Lindy was living in Colombia, working as an ESL specialist in an international school and running her own practice teaching English to professionals – from clergy to realtors to business leaders.
We were both seeing the way highly specialized language instruction was in high demand + how it changed the way people could do their jobs, serve their communities, and change their lives.
Shortly after Lindy moved back to the US, we did a six-week intensive at the Hospitality Hub (a local nonprofit): Hannah built the curriculum; Lindy taught the class. It was not only successful linguistically, but really brought the team together around a shared goal and experience.
We continued to collaborate over the next couple of years on classes and a community conversation partner program. When we officially branded and became Linguaviva Collective, we choose to turn this little project into a small business focused on connection and high-quality language learning. We set out to reimagine what online language learning could be.
Today we offer online language courses, a conversation partner program, and custom classes for teams.
As language learners and teachers ourselves, we believe in this work and we’re doing our best to build something that brings people together and brings good into the world.
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