Our approach in one line

One competency path, topics your child chooses, and real conversation with real people

Every student follows the same progression, so nobody quietly stalls. What changes is the subject matter — because a teenager will work harder on something they picked themselves, and the skill being taught is the same either way.

Why we exist

The gap between passing English and speaking it

Lingriser was built for one specific student: the one who is doing fine on paper and going nowhere in conversation.

What usually happens

A student learns English as a school subject. They memorize vocabulary, work through grammar exercises, and pass the written tests. Then someone asks them a question, and the answer comes out as four disconnected words.

More grammar does not fix this. Grammar was never the missing piece. What is missing is practice at holding a message together — and the confidence to keep going when a word will not come.

What we do instead

We treat understanding English and speaking it as two separate skills. Each needs its own kind of practice. We also measure them separately, because a student is very often at two different levels.

Every cycle sets one thing a student should be able to do by the end. First they meet it as something to understand. Then they have to say it themselves, out loud, to a person who is listening.

The team

Who is building Lingriser

Founder

Tim Ngo

Co-founder

Cherry Ngo

Co-founder

Shruti Rathore

Next: how the program runs — the diagnostic, the three cycles, and what your child works on each week.