Lingu is opening a small partnership programme for established English teachers — YouTubers, course creators, and top-rated tutors on platforms like Preply — who want to teach 12-week Fast-track cohorts and share in the growth their audience creates. Your hourly rate goes up as more of your students enrol, so the more your audience trusts you, the more you earn per teaching hour. No bidding. No race to the bottom. A real partnership.
You teach English Fast-track — a structured 12-week cohort programme for B1+ adult learners. Same group of students, same curriculum, three live classes a week plus a weekly speaking session, with teacher-graded writing and three milestone assessments along the way.
You bring the audience. We provide the platform, the curriculum, the AI practice partner that supports your students between your classes, the booking and billing infrastructure, the customer support, and the marketing reach of lingu.com.
You set your own teaching schedule within the cohort calendar. We handle the rest.
Marketplaces like Preply work for teachers building from zero. Once you have an audience, the economics change — you are sending traffic you generated to a platform that takes a cut and asks you to compete on price with hundreds of other teachers your students could click instead.
Lingu's Fast-track cohort programme is sold at a fixed price. You teach a defined number of hours per cohort, against a published curriculum, to a group of students who chose you. The more of your audience who enrol, the higher your hourly rate moves on the partnership tier ladder. Your audience compounds. Your rate compounds with it.
Behind every cohort: real teachers — you — backed by an AI practice partner that gives students pronunciation, writing, and conversation feedback between your sessions. The AI does the repetitive correction work. You do what only a human teacher can: motivate, explain nuance, adapt to the person in front of you.
Your hourly rate is tied to how many of your students enrol in a Lingu Fast-track cohort. As you bring more learners across, you move up the partnership ladder — and your rate moves with you for every cohort hour you teach, including students you didn't personally refer.
Tier thresholds, exact rates, and the cohort fee structure are confirmed in your partner agreement. We share the full rate card during the conversation, before you commit to anything. What we'll tell you up front: the top tier pays meaningfully above what the leading marketplaces pay their highest-rated teachers, and we don't take a cut of any private 1:1 add-ons your students buy from you alongside the cohort.
The thinking is simple. Your audience is an asset. You should be paid like the partner who brought it.
Tell us about your teaching background and your audience. We review every application personally.
A 30-minute call with the Lingu English team. We walk through the curriculum, the partner rate card, and what a cohort actually looks like week by week.
Two short sessions on the Lingu teaching platform, the cohort curriculum, and how the AI practice partner supports your students between your classes.
We give you a co-branded landing page, referral tracking, and marketing assets you can adapt for your channel. You announce to your audience.
A 12-week cohort: three live classes a week, a weekly speaking session, three milestone assessments, and a teacher-signed completion certificate at the end.
Run the next cohort. As your enrolments accumulate, your rate moves up the partnership ladder.
Marketplaces match teachers with students one lesson at a time and ask you to compete on price. Lingu's partnership is built for teachers who already have an audience: you teach a fixed-price 12-week cohort, your hourly rate rises as your enrolments grow, and you're not bidding against anyone. We're complementary to marketplace teaching, not a replacement for everyone.
Three live cohort classes per week (groups of up to 15 students at the same level moving through the curriculum together), one weekly speaking session (groups of up to 12), grading on roughly eight cohort writing assignments, and three milestone assessments — sign-up, mid-course, and final. Curriculum, slide decks, and assessment rubrics are provided.
No. The partnership programme is designed for teachers with an existing audience, but Lingu also markets cohorts directly. Students recruited through your channel count toward your partnership tier; students who join through Lingu's own marketing don't count toward the tier but you still teach them at your current rate.
The rate card is shared during the introductory call, before you sign anything. We don't publish exact figures on this page because tiers and rates are reviewed periodically as we scale, and we want you to see the current numbers in writing rather than guess from a marketing page.
A recognised English teaching qualification (CELTA, DELTA, Cambridge, TESOL, or equivalent), demonstrable experience teaching adults at B1+, and a public audience or track record we can verify. We assess each application individually rather than against a checklist.
Yes. The partnership is non-exclusive. Many of our partner teachers continue teaching 1:1 on marketplaces alongside running Lingu cohorts.
Lingu sells private 1:1 packs as a student add-on to any plan. If your cohort students want extra 1:1 time with you specifically, you can offer it through the platform or independently — Lingu doesn't take a cut of teacher–student arrangements you make outside the cohort.
Lingu is a Norwegian edtech founded in Stavanger. The English teaching team is in Cambridgeshire, UK — Lingu acquired Perfectly Spoken in 2026 and the partnership programme runs out of that team. You'll work with editorial, product, and support staff across both locations.
If you have an audience and you're ready to teach a structured cohort with a partnership rate that grows with your enrolments, we'd like to talk. Applications are reviewed personally by the Lingu English team.
