It started with a wall. And a boss who was too busy to read.
Studio Lingo wasn't planned in a boardroom. It grew out of one person's frustration — learning Dutch from scratch while living a whole life in another language. Every app taught a course. None of them taught his life.
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The wall
The wall
Andre Bittencourt moved to the Netherlands and started learning Dutch the way everyone does — through an app that decided, in advance, what he should learn. It never matched the conversation in front of him: the letter from the gemeente, the rental contract, the thing he actually needed to say tomorrow.
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The workaround
The workaround
Around the same time, he had a boss who never read his one-pagers — always too busy. So he built a small tool that turned his writing into audio he could send — something his boss could listen to on the move. It worked. People listened.
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The app
The app
That little text-into-speech tool became the seed. He started building the Dutch course he wished existed — one that begins with your situation, speaks in real voices, and hands you something you keep. That became Studio Lingo.
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"Every app taught a course. None of them taught his life."
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The mission
The mission
Andre is obsessed with one thing: how people — and organizations — actually learn. He wrote The Humbling Effect, a book about building deep learning cultures that self-heal, evolve, and create lasting value. His mission runs past any one app: to change the world one organization at a time — replacing the machines of stupidity and toxic cultures with organizations that genuinely learn. Studio Lingo is that same belief, shrunk to the most personal scale there is: you, and the one thing you need to say today.
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Studio Lingo today
Studio Lingo today
Today Studio Lingo is a language studio that begins with your situation, speaks in real voices, and hands you something you keep. Here's what we believe.
01The lesson begins with the situation.
Not a fixed course built for an average learner who doesn't exist. Paste an article, describe a moment, drop a contract — the lesson forms around that.
02It should sound like a person.
64 native-speaker voices across 20 languages, and more than one per language, so a two-person dialogue has two real people in it.
03No streaks. No guilt.
You're an adult — learn when life allows. Miss a day, miss a month; everything you made is still here when you come back.
It works the same whether you're learning Dutch in Rotterdam or, like one of our first learners, finally studying English explained in Ukrainian — your language, not someone else's bridge language.
What every lesson leaves you
Yours to keep — even after you cancel.
Frequently asked questions
What is Studio Lingo?
Studio Lingo is an EU-based language-learning app that turns the real situation in front of you — a doctor's visit, a job interview, a contract, a news article — into a complete, personalised language lesson with audio, transcript, and PDF, generated in under a minute.
How does Studio Lingo work?
You describe or paste the moment you need to handle. Studio Lingo composes a full lesson around it — the words, the register, the place — instead of a fixed course tree. Every lesson produces three artefacts you keep: native-voice audio, a side-by-side transcript, and a printable PDF.
Which languages does Studio Lingo support?
20 languages, in any pair and any direction — there is no English-only-source requirement. You can learn, for example, English from Ukrainian, German from Portuguese, or Spanish from Japanese.
How many voices are there?
64 native-speaker neural voices across 20 languages — authentic voices, not flat robotic text-to-speech. Each language has several voices, so a two-person dialogue is read by two distinct people rather than a single voice talking to itself.
What levels does it support?
CEFR A1 through C2, with no ceiling — a C2 learner is served as well as an A1, on demand.
How much does Studio Lingo cost?
Free is $0 with 3 credits per month. Learner is from $9.99/month with 10 credits. Master is from $24.99/month with 25 credits. Prices vary by region, plus VAT where applicable; annual billing saves 20%+. You can cancel any time, self-service, with no clawback.
Do I keep my lessons after I cancel?
Yes. The lessons you generated — audio, transcript, and PDF — stay in your library even after you cancel. Cancelling reverts you to the Free plan; it does not delete what you already made.
How is Studio Lingo different from Duolingo?
Duolingo teaches everyone the same gamified course tree with streaks and XP. Studio Lingo builds each lesson from your specific real-life situation, gives you keepable audio/transcript/PDF artefacts instead of points, and has no streaks or guilt mechanics.
Is my data safe?
Studio Lingo is built in the Netherlands and is GDPR-aligned.
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