Creator Empires: Builders in Language Education

Lucrezia is the creator of the popular YouTube channel ‘Learn Italian with Lucrezia’. In this interview you’re going to learn: - What inspired Lucrezia to start her YouTube channel - What the actual business is behind her brand - Tips for building an online audience Join Langpreneur Business Breakthrough take your Online Language Business to the next level: https://langpreneur.com/ Join one of our...

Hyunwoo Sun is the founder of the popular website ‘Talk to me in Korean’. Together with his team, he helps Korean learners from all over the world to reach a high level of fluency in Korean, without them having to visit Korea. He started as a content creator but he now runs a company with what is soon to employ over twenty people. The business’ study materials have become some of the most popular...

Eight case studies… Over the last few years, we have been organizing multiple mastermind events for Langpreneurs. At these events we take a close look at our participants’ businesses and see how we can help them become more profitable and make a bigger impact in the world. These events usually take place in exotic places in Europe, but recently I’ve also been consulting dozens of Langpreneurs over...

Steve lives in Vancouver, Canada, is 74 years old, and speaks over 15 languages. He’s the founder of Lingq, a language learning platform where people can learn a language through listening and reading content that they enjoy. Lingq is available for about 35 languages. When Steve started with Lingq 15 years ago, he had a hard time getting traction with the business. For many years the business wasn...

Daria is the founder of Real Russian Club. She runs a big YouTube and Podcast for Russian learners that bring in a stable income despite the fact that she never really had any ambition to start her own business. In this interview you’re going to learn: – The power of podcasting compared to YouTube – How much money you really can make on YouTube – The importance of ”being real” For the full article...

Anthony is the founder of the Magnetic Memory Method and the Branding You Academy. His ‘Magnetic Memory Method’ helps people to improve their memory, while the ‘Branding You Academy’ helps people build an online business that generates 7-figures per year. Anthony has a background as an author, and one of his specialties is copywriting; writing text that persuades people to take a certain action. H...

Silver Ilves, originally from Estonia, is the co-founder of the language learning app MagicLingua. He has a background in economics and IT and has worked for several dating websites, as well as for one of the biggest language learning companies in the world, Rosetta Stone. In this interview we’re going to learn: – How AI and upcoming technology will impact the industry – What some of the opportuni...

Lindsay is the creator of ‘Lindsay Does Languages’. She helps language learners to learn better on their own and helps teachers create a sustainable online teaching business. These days, she’s best known for her blog and YouTube channel, but she also hosts a podcast. In this interview we’re going to learn: – How to start teaching online – Which platform you should pick (YouTube, IG, podcast or oth...

Brett is the founder of ‘Learn Thai from a White Guy’; with his courses, he helps people to better understand and be understood in Thai. He focuses a lot on teaching the Thai writing system and pronunciation as this is the key to sounding like a Thai, according to Brett. Over the years, Brett managed to build a lucrative ‘freedom’’ business that has been allowing him to travel whenever he wants, w...

As you’ll undoubtedly be aware, the situation with coronavirus is changing by the day. As a result, we had to cancel the 'Langpreneur Business Breakthrough Event in Berlin on 28-29 March. We learned some time ago that every setback is an opportunity waiting to be uncovered though. And this is no exception. So, when it became clear that the Berlin event couldn’t go ahead as planned, we got to work....

Lucy is the host and founder of the YouTube channel ‘English with Lucy’. Within four years, she built a channel that now has over 3.5 million subscribers and is one of the biggest language-related YouTube channels out there. What started as an experiment quickly turned into a full-time business, and has now become a widely successful YouTube phenomenon. Lucy monetizes her brand through AdSense, sp...

Gabriel Wyner is the founder of the language-learning app, ‘Fluent Forever,’ and he’s also the author of the book with that same title. Gabriel has raised over $1.7 million USD with crowdfunding campaigns on platforms like Kickstarter, and so far he’s spent $3.5 million developing the Fluent Forever app. In this interview we’re going to learn: - Why developing apps is often much more expensive tha...

When Daniel was 21 years-old, he moved from the US to Spain. He ended up doing what most native English speakers in Spain were doing; teaching English. A few years after he started his English teaching career, he started a blog where he helps Spanish speakers to learn English. Today, Daniel has created what he calls an ‘’English teaching empire’’, without having any physical students, a boss, or a...

Elena helps teachers to work smarter, less, with more satisfaction, and get paid well for their work. She’s originally from Ukraine and started teaching online back in 2008. Two years later, she moved to the US and continued teaching online after work. In the first six months, Elena became incredibly busy, mainly gaining clients through worth of mouth. The problem with her online teaching job, how...

Idahosa grew up in the US only speaking English. When he was eighteen he made his first solo trip to Mexico and that’s where he learned to speak Spanish. Later, he also learned Mandarin and Portuguese, and developed his own learning methodology. He launched his online business ‘Mimic Method’, and since then he has helped thousands of people to improve their accent in a foreign language. That Idaho...

Cari is the woman behind Easy Languages, a network of YouTube channels for language learners. In their videos, they interview people on the streets and show how languages are spoken in real life. Besides that, you also get an insight into the culture of the country where the language is spoken. In this interview, we’re going to learn what made Easy Languages so successful on YouTube and how they m...

Thirteen years ago, Mark started a podcast called ‘Coffee Break Spanish’. Today, Coffee Break is available for a large number of languages and the podcasts have become hugely successful. The podcast lessons are being downloaded over 2.5 million times each month. That means that every 0.91 seconds, somebody in the world downloads a Coffee Break lesson. In order to serve such a big audience, Mark ha...

So you want to build an online language business? How cool would it be to turn your passion for languages into an online business and live the way you want. Over the last decade, we’ve invested tens of thousands of dollars in training programmes that helped us to build profitable, multiple six-figure online language businesses. We started from scratch, with zero experience. But we wanted to do mor...

In today’s interview we’re talking to Seonaid Beckwith from the blog ‘Perfect English Grammar’. Seonaid started her blog all the way back in 2007. At that time she used it as a platform to publish materials for her own students while she was working as an English teacher, but the website soon garnered attention from English learners from all over the world. A few years after she started, Seonaid b...

In today’s interview we learn how Johan Tekfak has built one of the biggest YouTube channels for French learners. He’s going to share with us how he built his massive audience all while holding down a stressful full-time job, and how he turned this platform into a profitable online business. In this interview you’re going to learn the following things: – How to build a business while holding down...

In today’s interview, we’re talking to Katie Harris from the blog ‘Joy of Languages’ about organizing so-called ‘Language Retreats’. We’ll learn how language retreats work and what you should take into account if you want to organize language retreats for your own audience. Most people learn a language for many years but still struggle to have conversations. Katie decided to move to Italy and work...

Lukas helps Langpreneurs with a YouTube channel with over 100K subscribers, generating over 6-figures with product launches. Having a degree in linguistics, he started his career as a language course creator. He wanted to work online and travel the world, but he realized that in order to do that, he first had to learn online marketing. Lukas fell in love with marketing and has been combining his l...

Gabriel Gelman is one of the co-founders of an SEO agency in Germany called ‘’Netzbekannt’’. He also runs ‘’Sprachheld’,’ a website where he helps German speakers to learn a foreign language. Earlier this year he spoke at one of our events and showed Langpreneurs how they can grow their businesses through Google and effective SEO. We know that talking about SEO isn’t the sexiest thing in the world...

Kris works as a full-time affiliate manager for a language company. In the evenings he works on his blog and podcast called ‘’Actual Fluency’’ where he interviews well-known language learners and polyglots. He monetizes his website mainly through affiliate marketing. As an affiliate manager who is also an affiliate partner himself, he really sees the two sides of the game. Today we’re going to tal...

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Lydia Machova from Language Mentoring. Lydia is from Slovakia, and she learned German and English when she was 11 years old. She used to work as a professional interpreter for celebrities like Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, and also the former prime minister of Slovakia. She has a huge passion for languages and today she can speak nine languages. With her online bu...