The Lighter Way To Learn Languages

Learn languages with a British language expert, alongside native speakers for pronunciation and native tips!

Hi, I'm Jacob

Hi! I'm Jacob from England, a long-time English teacher, language learner and founder of one of the best-rated language schools in the Czech Republic.

Since 2014, I've been on a mission to make a language learning system that gets you to a practical conversational level as efficiently as humanly possible, by focusing on only learning on what you need to be conversational and obsessively organising the order in which you learn to make the fastest progress. 

I've used this system myself to learn Czech and Spanish, as well as to teach English, and I'm excited to now teach you using the same exact system, alongside awesome native speakers for each language!
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Languages We Offer

Each course is obsessively designed from scratch, with everything made to you get to a practical conversational level in your chosen language as efficiently as humanly possible.

English

We have spent twelve years refining our English course so that it gets you to a practically fluent conversational level of English as fast as humanly possible, by focusing on the English you need.

Czech

Our Czech course takes everything we learnt from making our English course and makes it even more refined and efficient, with specific modules for Czech-specific topics such as cases!  

Spanish

Our Spanish course builds on over a decade of learnings from our English and Czech course, and was designed from scratch to provide a super clear path to conversational Spanish.
HOW IT WORKS

What Our Courses Look Like

Our system distills languages to the essential components you need to be conversationally fluent, and then organises them so you learn as efficiently as possible.

Clear Path To Practical Fluency

You can't cheat at learning a language, but you can optimise. We've spent twelve years obsessively refining our system to ensure it covers everything you need for real life, ordered according to priority, so that as long as you follow the system step by step you're guaranteed to speak conversationally.

Three-Level System

We obsessed over the order that you learn things in our course so that every topic builds logically from the last, right up until you're conversationally fluent. Join the course at your current level and we'll take you the rest of the way, in our simple three-level system. 

Waste No Brain Space

Everything in all our courses is organised according to frequency of use, meaning if a topic or word is used all the time, we're going to learn it early on in the course. Languages are just a certain number of vocab and topics used over and over again - and that is the stuff we focus on learning!

Made By Humans

We think learning a language is one of the most awesome human things you can do, so all our explanations, examples and tips are made by expert humans who know what they're talking about and how to explain things in simple terms that make sense.

Made For Adults

We believe learning a language should be fun and include everything you will need as an adult. We teach you real things you're going to need, such as how to swear like a native, how to talk about wine, and how to joke around with your new friends you'll be making thanks to your new language skills!

Top-Notch Quality

Our obsession to quality extends beyond the courses themselves; from our top-of-the-line video and audio gear to make our videos and podcasts look and sound awesome, to the time we put into designing our summary leaflets, and to the care we put into choosing the perfect example sentences.

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Meet Your Teacher

All our courses are taught by our founder, Jacob, who has used our system to learn each language himself from scratch, and is an expert in taking complex topics and explaining them in clear terms for normal people. 

Expert British Teacher

Jacob has spent 12 years making our English course - during which time he has perfected the explanations and examples for each topic, and also learnt how each topic works in Czech and Spanish so the explanations take into account how it works in your native language.

Speaks Czech & Spanish

In addition to our English courses, Jacob also teaches our Czech and Spanish courses alongside native speaker co-teachers. You can look forward to everything being clearly explained from someone who has already learnt the language, while still getting the pronunciation and tips from a native speaker.

Founder Of Top-Rated Language School

Jacob is the founder and ex-CEO of Speak Like Me, now the best-rated corporate language school in Prague, which was acquired in 2025, allowing Jacob to put all his time into making Languages With A Twist the best place in the world to learn languages!

12 Years Experience

Jacob has been teaching and learning languages since 2014, during which time he's taught everyone from grandmothers to CEO's, trained over a hundred teachers, written multiple grammar books, and come across all the issues and questions you'll likely have when trying to learn a language.

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Meet Your Co-Teacher

For our non-English courses, we have our awesome native speakers who check that everything is correct, show correct pronunciation, take part in our fun StoryTime and Small Talk videos, and co-host the podcast for that language.

Diego

FROM CHILE
Diego is from Chile and is Jacob's co-teacher for our Spanish course. He has been teaching Spanish and English (being fluent in both) for over 12 years around the world and is a huge fan of barbecues!

Claire

From france
Claire is from France and is Jacob's co-teacher for our French course. She is bilingual in both English and French and has had a varied career spanning the world from Australia to the Czech Republic.

Anna

FROM CZECH REPUBLIC
Anna is from the Czech Republic and is Jacob's co-teacher for our Czech course. She is a huge fan of all things Czech like fried cheese, beer and going on trips to "the nature"!

Caroline

From Germany
Caroline is from Germany and is Jacob's co-teacher for our German course. She met Jacob randomly at a hostel in Australia where they bonded over goon and a love of languages!
Method

How our method works

Textbooks
Podcast
Video Courses
Summary leaflets

1. Focus On What Matters

The first thing you need to do when learning a language is to decide what to learn. What are all the words you actually need to be conversational? What grammar do you actually need to use every day, and what is just useless fluff? These are the questions we've spent a decade answering, so that you can focus on just learning the things you're actually going to need every day in normal conversation.

2. Obsessively Organise

Now that you know what you're going to learn, you now need to know what order you're going to learn it in. This makes a huge difference in how fast you can learn a language and how much sense it makes. We have obsessed in extreme detail over what order you should learn things in so that they build logically on from one another, so that you can get to a conversational level as fast as humanly possible.

3. Keep It Simple

We don't believe in using complicated grammar terms that don't help anyone. We are making language courses for normal people who probably know what verbs and nouns are, but have no idea what relative pronouns or the imperfect subjunctive are - and that's okay! We explain everything in simple terms, always explained in context of how it works in your native language in comparison to the language you're learning.

4. Eliminate The Need To Memorise

One of the hardest things when learning a language is remembering everything! We feel your pain, which is why we made our beautiful summary leaflets for each level of every course, with all topics summarised into cute little boxes, so you can quickly remind yourself of the rules of how things work when trying to speak. This takes away the stress of memorising and allows you to focus on using the language!
Leaflets

Summary Leaflets

Forget About Memorising

There's no need to memorise grammar with our leaflets, which summarise everything from our courses into cute little boxes!

Every Topic Summarised

Every topic from every level is summarised in a cute little box, with the essentials of how it works, one or two great examples, and a few key pro tips.

One Leaflet Per Level

Every level has it's own leaflet, so you can easily keep track of what you're learning while going through a course.

Print-Ready Files

You can either buy physical leaflets directly from us, or print your own at home using the printing files that come included with the digital versions of our leaflets. 
podcast

Awesome Podcasts

Fun Conversations

Get used to hearing the language you're learning in fun, slow conversations with native speakers. Each episode has lots of natural conversation and includes a bunch of clarification of how things work.

Listen To Native Speakers

Every podcast is co-hosted by a native speaker of the language you are learning, so you can hear how native speakers actually sound and see the words and grammar they actually use in natural conversations. 

Learn Practical Vocab

In every episode we learn lots of practical words and phrases which we then put in our free Google Doc with example sentences and verified translations!

Topic Of The Week

At the end of every episode we have our topic of the week, which can be a small grammar topic, an interesting word, or a fun new how-to topic, so we're always getting a bit better together every episode.

Our students say our courses

#make sense | #are awesome | #motivate me | #actually work | #make me laugh

Very satisfied with the summer group course led by Jacob. There are only 3 of us in the group, so everyone gets a chance to speak, the 90 minute lesson goes by like water every week and most importantly it's fun!
ANNA
The best English lessons I've ever had. I enjoyed the lessons, they unlearn past mistakes, the classes are fun and Jacob is a great teacher. I wish I could go more than once a week!
EVA PŘIBYLOVÁ
What can I say, this best language course I've ever taken. After a few weeks I see improvements in myself that didn't show up after months in other courses. The classes don't bore me either.
ALEXANDRA HŮLKOVÁ
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Choose Your Course

Our individual and pair lesson packages come with trial lessons, which are only charged if you choose to buy the full package.

English Courses

From 250,-CZK/class
Prices vary based on lesson type
  • Individual, pair and group classes 
  • Lesson packages of 12 lessons
  • Learn in-person or online (via Google Meet)
  • Classes for all levels
  • Comes with grammar summary leaflets
  • Keep your lesson notes (in Google Doc)

Czech Courses

From 250,-CZK/class
Prices vary based on lesson type
  • Individual, pair and group classes 
  • Lesson packages of 12 lessons
  • Learn in-person or online (via Google Meet)
  • Classes for beginner levels
  • Comes with grammar summary leaflets
  • Keep your lesson notes (in Google Doc)

Spanish Courses

from 250,-CZK/class
Prices vary based on lesson type
  • Individual, pair and group classes 
  • Lesson packages of 12 lessons
  • Learn in-person or online (via Google Meet)
  • Classes for beginner levels
  • Comes with grammar summary leaflets
  • Keep your lesson notes (in Google Doc)
Contact details

Get in touch

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Tell use which language you're interested in and what length of course
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