A plan built on your goals
We assess your level first, then agree milestones and a schedule that fits your deadline — a relocation date, a role change, a trip, or simply steady progress.
Hausa language tutoring
Live one-to-one Hausa lessons, built around your life
Private lessons with a native-speaking tutor, taught live online. Whether you are preparing for a posting in Kano, working alongside Hausa-speaking colleagues, serving a community, or raising bilingual children, your syllabus is written around the situations you actually meet.
The approach
We start with your week, not a textbook
Most language courses begin with chapter one and hope you can keep up. We begin with the meetings you sit in, the market you shop at, the family you greet, the ward round you do or the sermon you preach. Your tutor turns that into a syllabus, and every lesson after the first builds on it.
Everything is taught live and one-to-one. You are never one of forty people on a webinar: you speak for most of the session, and corrections arrive the moment they matter, while the point is still fresh.
We teach the full range, from absolute beginners who have never said sannu to advanced learners polishing a professional register, proverbs and public speaking. We also teach children and teenagers, including heritage learners in the diaspora who understand Hausa at home but want to read and write it properly.
Hausa is a tonal language with sounds English does not have. We train them deliberately and early, because correcting a wrong pronunciation later is far harder than learning it right the first time.
You keep everything: notes, vocabulary lists, recordings of each session and a short written summary of what to practise before the next lesson.
Who we teach
- Professionals and executives working with Hausa-speaking partners
- NGO, development and mission staff preparing for field work
- Healthcare workers and public health teams
- Researchers, journalists and graduate students
- Families, children and home-schooling parents
- Diaspora heritage learners reconnecting with the language
- Polyglots and enthusiasts learning for the pleasure of it
What's included
Everything a serious learner needs
No tiers of quality — every learner gets a native tutor, a plan and the materials to go with it.
Speaking from lesson one
You use Hausa in your very first session. English is scaffolding, not the lesson, and it is withdrawn as your confidence grows.
Pronunciation and tone training
Hausa sounds and tonal patterns are drilled deliberately, so that you are understood the first time you say something — not the third.
Real-life role play
Negotiating a price, greeting a family, briefing a driver, chairing a meeting, explaining a diagnosis: the situations are rehearsed before you have to live them.
Culture alongside grammar
Greetings, respect, proverbs and etiquette are part of the curriculum, because grammar alone does not tell you what is polite to say and when.
Materials you keep
Lesson notes, vocabulary lists, recordings and a written practice summary after each session, so the hour you paid for keeps working all week.
How it works
From first message to first conversation
Four steps, and you can begin with no Hausa at all.
01
Consultation call
A 30-minute video call where you tell us what you want to do in Hausa, by when, and how much time you can give it each week.
02
Level check and plan
We establish your starting point from A0 to B2+ and agree the milestones that matter for your goal, plus a schedule in your time zone.
03
Your lessons begin
Live, one-to-one, typically 45 to 60 minutes. You speak from the first session, and you receive notes and a practice summary afterwards.
04
Review and adjust
Regular progress reviews show what you can now do. The pace and content move with you — faster when you are ready, slower when life intervenes.
Formats
Shaped around your timetable
Ways to learn with us
- Standard lessons — one-to-one, live online, 45 or 60 minutes, once or twice a week.
- Intensive preparation — several sessions a week ahead of a move, a posting or a project start.
- Family and children's lessons — shorter, more playful sessions for younger learners.
- Two learners together — for couples, siblings or colleagues who want to learn as a pair.
- Team training — structured programmes for organisations sending staff into Hausa-speaking regions.
What you need to join
A phone, tablet or laptop with a camera, a stable internet connection and somewhere you can speak aloud for an hour. We send you a link before each lesson — there is nothing to install and no software to buy.
If your employer is covering the cost, tell us at the start so we can quote the way your finance team needs.
Questions
About Hausa lessons
None at all. Most of our learners begin with no Hausa whatsoever. We start with sounds and greetings, and you will be using short phrases in your first lesson.
It depends on your starting point, how often you study and what you need to do in the language. At the assessment we will give you an honest estimate for your own goal rather than a marketing number.
Live, one-to-one, by video call. Our tutors are based in Kano, Nigeria (GMT+1), and we schedule lessons across the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa — tell us the hours that work for you.
Yes. Younger learners get shorter, more playful sessions built around songs, games and everyday family language, and parents are welcome to sit in.
Get started
Book a 30-minute consultation
Meet a tutor, describe your goal and try the method before you commit to anything. If lessons are not the right answer for you, we will say so.