You learn a language with your mouth.

01

The problem

Adults read before they listen

A child hears thousands of hours of a language before seeing a letter. Adults do the opposite: they see «skjorta» or «chiamare» written down, and the mouth pronounces the letters with native-language habits. It has nothing to do with a bad ear or a lack of talent. The sound category is missing, so the tongue picks the nearest sound it already knows.

That is why we start with mechanics: where the tongue tip sits, how far the jaw opens, when the vowel is long and when the consonant is. Grammar holds up better once the mouth already knows what to do.

02

The origin

Built by a polyglot who needed this

Most language tools leave out the hardest part: actually speaking.

Apps focus on multiple-choice games and streaks. Tutoring sites give you a video call and a calendar link, but no structured tools for the desk between lessons. Synthetic voice apps read text aloud, but lack the curriculum and physical feedback to help you fix a sound.

After years of studying languages, I knew what worked: live conversation with a dedicated teacher, combined with daily out-loud practice on real phrases and pronunciation mechanics. Maestro brings those together in one workspace.

03

Three studios

Italian, Spanish, Swedish

Each language trips learners up in its own way: Italian double consonants and open vowels, Spanish linked speech and syllable timing, Swedish pitch accents, vowel length and the sje and tje sounds.

Every studio is built the same way: 120 dialogues from A1 to C2, 210 exercises, a level test, everyday vocabulary. The situations are local: the pastry shop in Bologna, the Madrid metro, the housing co-op meeting on Söder.

04

Teachers

Teachers should be paid well

Many platforms take a large cut just for connecting two people on video, and leave the preparation to the teacher. Maestro takes 20%. Teachers keep 80%, and the curriculum, dialogues and practice tools are already in place.

Each teacher–student pair has a fixed room, a shared notebook that lasts the whole course, and homework tied to the lessons. Teachers work as they would in their own studio, with the tools already on the desk.

05

AI

A practice partner between lessons

A real conversation, with its jokes and misunderstandings, happens with a person. That is what lesson time is for.

AI covers the hours when your teacher isn't there: at eleven at night it repeats the same vowel pair twenty times, compares the melody of your sentence with the reference, and tells you where your tongue slipped. The feedback is approximate, and we say so plainly.

06

Privacy

Your voice stays yours

Practice recordings stay in your browser. When you ask for pronunciation feedback, the audio is sent once, assessed and not stored on our servers. We don't use voices or conversations to train models.

From your account you can export everything to a file, or delete the account in one click.