Conversation tables
Two adults, one table, one topic card. Pairs rotate every twelve minutes so nobody hides behind a friend who already knows the word.
Spanish · French · Japanese — Capitol Hill, Seattle
Order the coffee in Madrid, argue about it in Osaka.
Atlas Tongue Academy teaches adults in rooms of eight, three evenings a week, with native-speaking teachers who stop the grammar the moment a conversation starts. Most students arrive on a Monday placement chat and are speaking, badly and happily, by Thursday.
Four ways to spend an evening in another language
Reading nights
French novels cut into ten-page chapters, read aloud and argued over. Bring a pencil; the margins are where the vocabulary lives.
After-work classes
Tuesday and Thursday 18:30 to 20:30 in the old print-shop room, when the radiators tick and the group finally stops checking email.
Online one-to-one
Thirty-minute video sessions with a teacher in Mexico City, Lyon or Kyoto, booked around your flights and your inbox.
The school in numbers
- Students per room, never more
- 8
- Teachers, all native speakers
- 11
- Languages taught in depth
- 3
- Re-enrol for a second term
- 92%
What students say after term one
“I booked Lisbon on a whim and used my Spanish on the bus there. Marisol made us order lunch in class every week until it stopped feeling like a performance.”
“Reading Camus in ten-page bites is the first time French has felt like a place I could go rather than a subject I had to pass.”
“Hiragana in the first month sounded impossible. Sato-sensei turned it into a card game and I could read the train map by week five.”
Term fees
Ten-week terms. Textbooks and the Friday conversation table are included in every option.
Save 8% when you pay for two
Evening group
Eight seats, two evenings a week.
$420 / term
- 20 hours of class
- Course book and audio
- Friday conversation table
Intensive mornings
Five mornings, six students.
$790 / term
- 50 hours of class
- Weekly written feedback
- Cultural outing each fortnight
Private pair
You and a friend, one teacher.
$640 / term
- 20 hours of class
- Syllabus built around your trip or job
- Free reschedule with 24 hours notice
Before you enrol
I have never studied the language. Can I start mid-term?
Absolute beginners should join at the start of a term, because week one carries the alphabet and the survival phrases. If you miss that window we run a four-hour catch-up on the first Saturday.
How do you decide my level?
A fifteen-minute spoken chat with a teacher plus a short reading task. No grade, just a placement slip that says which room to walk into.
Is there homework?
About thirty minutes between classes, usually a voice note you record on your phone. Teachers listen to every one and answer with a note of their own.
Find the front desk
1214 E Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122
- Mon–Fri 10:00–20:30
- Sat 09:00–14:00
+1 206 555 0142
Request a placement chat
Tell us which language and what you want to do with it. A teacher replies within one working day with two time slots.