That you learn to speak a language by speaking it — from the first day, before you feel ready, and long before you've finished the grammar book.
A school built around a great idea
Why we teach this way
Almost everyone who walks through our door has studied English before. Years of it, sometimes. They can read it. They understand more than they can produce. And they still can't hold a conversation without rehearsing every sentence first.
That isn't a knowledge problem. It's a practice problem. Understanding a language and producing it are two different skills, and most language teaching spends nearly all its time on the first one. The result is a student who knows a great deal about English and cannot speak it.
The You Just Talk method inverts that. Speaking is not the reward at the end of the course — it's the work of every class, from the first one. Grammar is explained when you need it to say something, not as a prerequisite for being allowed to try. Classes stay small because speaking time divides by the number of people in the room. Online classes are live, with a real instructor, because you cannot practise a conversation with a recording.
It is not a comfortable way to learn. It is a fast one.
How a class actually runs
You talk more than we do
If the teacher is speaking for most of the class, you're at a lecture, not a language class. Most of every session is you producing English.
Mistakes happen out loud
Correction is immediate, specific and routine. Students who are protected from errors stop taking the risks that produce fluency.
Real material, real situations
Audio and video from how people actually speak, and practice built around the conversations you'll have this week — not textbook dialogues.
Our teachers
The method depends entirely on the person in the room. Every instructor is trained in the You Just Talk approach and works between languages every day.
Find out where you’d start
The placement test is free, takes about 30 minutes, and comes with no obligation at all.