Lingua Franca Sprachschule

Name

Lingua Franca Sprachschule

Legal name

LINGUA FRANCA Daniel Cooper & Douglas Werner GbR

Website

https://lingua-franca.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lingua Franca Sprachschule is a Berlin-based business language school founded in 1990 that delivers customized inhouse Business English and other language training to over 450 corporate, government, and research clients, supplemented by open public courses at its Berlin Mitte location.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Language Training Services

NAICS

Language Schools (61163), Language Schools (611630), Professional and Management Development Training (61143), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Business/Professional Language Training (Industry-Specific) (EDAMAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

General Language Schools & Institutes (EDAMAFAA), Corporate & Workforce Language Training Platforms (EDAFAOAJ), Language & Cross-Cultural Training (BPACANAL), Business & Workplace Language Training (EDANACAC)

Keywords

• Corporate language training
• Business English courses
• Inhouse language training
• Executive language coaching
• Specialized industry language

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Inhouse Firmenkurse (B2B Corporate Language Training): Customized language training delivered at the client's premises. The primary revenue driver, serving over 450 companies in Berlin. Courses are tailored to the client's industry, job roles, and specific terminology. Pricing is quote-based and determined by duration, frequency, intensity, and content.
2. Offene Kurse (Open/Public Courses): Open enrollment courses held at the company's Berlin Mitte location, including general language group courses, intensive courses, and individual one-on-one instruction. Intensive courses are priced at €360 per week (30 units × 45 minutes, 2–3 participants).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lingua Franca Sprachschule sells customized inhouse language training (Firmenkurse) delivered at the client's premises, with a primary focus on Business English and additional instruction in German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Polish, and Dutch. Course content is tailored to the client's industry, job functions, and specific terminology, taught by native-speaker trainers. The company also runs open enrollment courses (Offene Sprachkurse) at its Berlin Mitte training center, including group, intensive, and one-on-one formats, alongside specialized executive coaching, business skills workshops, and cross-cultural training.

Product overview

Lingua Franca Sprachschule is a language school specializing in Business English and other languages for corporate clients in Berlin. The core offering consists of Firmenkurse (company courses) conducted in-house at client organizations, supplemented by Offene Sprachkurse (open courses) at their Berlin Mitte location. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio including Gruppenkurse, Intensivkurse, and Einzelunterricht (group, intensive, and one-on-one instruction), alongside specialized programs such as Executive Language Coaching, Business Skills Workshops, Fachsprachen-Seminare, and Cross-Cultural Workshops. Digital offerings include e(nglish)-mail (a weekly free newsletter with exercises) and the Kundenbereich (customer portal) with over 300 interactive online exercises. The school operates primarily in German but delivers training in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Polish, and Dutch.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Firmenkurse (Inhouse Corporate Language Training) Customized language courses (primarily Business English, plus German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Polish, and Dutch) delivered at the client's premises. Content is tailored to the client's industry, specific job functions, and business documentation, taught by native-speaker trainers with business expertise. Targeted at companies, banks, government agencies, and embassies in Berlin and surrounding areas.
• Offene Sprachkurse (Open Language Courses) Open enrollment courses for individual learners at Lingua Franca's Berlin Mitte training center, including general language group courses, intensive courses, and one-on-one instruction in multiple languages.
• Intensivkurse (Intensive Courses) Accelerated, small-group language courses of 30 teaching units (45 minutes each) over 1 or 2 weeks, held Monday to Friday 9:00-14:00 at the Berlin Mitte school. Officially recognized as Bildungsurlaub (educational leave) in Germany. Priced at €360 per week.
• Einzelunterricht (One-on-One Instruction) Fully individualized language lessons offered either extensively (1-3 times per week) or intensively (5 times, 3-8 teaching units/week). Used for flexible scheduling, pre-holiday refreshers, interview preparation, and specialized vocabulary areas such as law, medicine, or real estate. Pricing is quote-based following a needs-analysis consultation.
• Executive Language Coaching Tailored one-on-one coaching for executives and senior leaders who want to train specific topics without committing to regular weekly appointments. Offered intensively, extensively, or on a one-off basis with custom pricing.
• Business Skills Workshops Targeted in-company workshops focused on discrete business communication skills in the target language: telephoning, meetings, correspondence, negotiations, small talk, and presentations.
• Fachsprachen-Seminare (Specialized Language Seminars) In-company seminars that deliver industry-specific foreign-language vocabulary for sectors such as accounting, banking, law, construction, controlling, HR, engineering, marketing, real estate, and tax law.
• Cross-Cultural Workshops Cultural competence training designed to strengthen employees' cross-cultural skills, tailored to specific business situations or countries they work with.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 450 companies served since 1990, including major enterprises such as BMW, Siemens, Microsoft, and Zalando.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers37 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Strengths4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/LinguaFrancaSprachschule
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lingua-franca-sprachschule

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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