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Marketplace
A free worldwide directory of Koydo Lingua tutors. Tutors list for free, students search for free, and there's no platform commission — tutors subscribe to Pro Educator ($19/month) and keep their lesson earnings, while marketplace payments carry a charity-bound 3% fee plus standard Stripe processing. The opposite of italki (15-21% commission), Preply (18-33%), Cambly (~59%), and Wyzant (25%).
Live directory · Claim your city
The directory is live and crawlable today. The first verified tutor for each city × language pairing earns a Founding Tutor badge and a free first year of Pro Educator. Tutors and students contact each other directly — Koydo never inserts a commission.
Four steps. Zero commission. Zero hidden fees.
Sign up with email, add your photo, list the languages you teach + your CEFR ceiling per language, set your hourly rate, mark your service area (zip-code radius for in-home or "remote-only" for online), describe yourself. Free. No card needed. The profile is public and search-indexed — Google will find you.
Students enter their city, choose a target language, set a max distance + rate range, and see a map view of nearby tutors. Browser geolocation can auto-fill the location. No account needed to browse. Free.
Through Koydo's in-platform messaging (no email exchange required for first contact). Tutor responds, they arrange a trial lesson on their own terms. Koydo doesn't impose first-lesson rules, fee structures, or scheduling templates — it's the tutor's business.
The student and tutor arrange payment + scheduling themselves (PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, cash, the tutor's own Stripe — whatever they prefer), and Koydo takes nothing. Tutors who want the teaching toolkit (gradebook, parent share-link, on-device AI tutor, 60-language curriculum) subscribe to Pro Educator at $19/mo flat — independent of the directory. Payments taken through the Koydo marketplace carry a charity-bound 3% fee plus standard Stripe processing — never a platform commission.
Be the first verified tutor in your city — for any of 60 languages.
Every city × language pairing is a separate searchable slot. Claim yours now and you earn a Founding Tutor badge that shows on every search forever — plus a free first year of Pro Educator ($228 value). The first 100 verified tutors in each language ship with the badge.
Spanish in Austin, TX
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Mandarin in Vancouver, BC
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French in Brooklyn, NY
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Polish in Chicago, IL
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Arabic in Detroit, MI
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Korean in Los Angeles, CA
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Hindi in Edison, NJ
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Portuguese in Miami, FL
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Japanese in Seattle, WA
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Don't see your city + language? Every pairing of any city in 195 countries × 60 languages is open. Claim yours during sign-up.
Directory first. Booking, payments, calendars after that.
Live today
Public matching directory. Search any city × any of 60 languages. Tutor profiles are public and search-indexed. Students contact tutors through Koydo messaging or claim contact info per the tutor's preference. No platform commission — ever.
Q3 2026
Calendar sync + in-platform booking. Tutors connect Google / Apple / Outlook calendar. Students book trial lessons directly from the profile. No commission added — booking is part of the Pro Educator toolkit.
Q4 2026
Marketplace payments for matched lessons. Tutors who want billing handled inside Lingua take payments through the Koydo marketplace: a charity-bound 3% fee plus standard Stripe processing — no platform commission. Still cheaper than every marketplace on the planet.
2027
Verified-tutor video intros + lesson-package marketplace. Tutors record a 60-second intro video. Students can buy 10-lesson bundles upfront with money-back guarantee. Built on top of the existing directory — no separate platform to learn.
The marketplace isn't a free-for-all.
The Verified Tutor badge confirms only that a third-party background screening provider completed a check on its standard date. It is NOT a Koydo guarantee of safety, fitness, competence, or non-recurrence of past behavior. Parents and students are responsible for their own due diligence.
The business model lets the matching work.
When you search here, the tutors near the top are simply the ones who fit you best. You see who matches your child's age, language, level, schedule, and budget — never whoever paid to be promoted that day. Teachers who serve students well stay easy to find, so the right fit is usually right in front of you on your first search.
Each tutor's place in your results is earned by honest signals you can see for yourself: completed lessons in the language you're learning, average review score, verification level, how quickly they reply, and how often a first lesson grows into a lasting fit. There are no paid "featured" slots and no hidden scores. A verified tutor near you who teaches exactly what you searched for comes ahead of someone far away — because your best match should always come first.
Trust is built in and easy to check. Every tutor profile shows the verifications they've completed at a glance — email, phone, payment-ready, and background screening where available — and you can filter by verification level before you browse. Tutors who teach minors must be verified first. Reviews come only from real, paid lessons, so the ratings you read are genuine, and anything abusive is screened before it appears. If a lesson is ever recorded, only the consenting parent and the tutor can see it — never other students, and never other tutors.
The directory is free to browse and free to list — Koydo never takes a commission on a matched lesson. Tutors who want the full teaching toolkit (curriculum, AI tutor, gradebook, parent share-link, branded booking page) choose Pro Educator at $19/month; schools add SSO, SCIM, LTI and a signed DPA through per-seat licenses; and payments taken through the Koydo marketplace carry a charity-bound 3% fee plus standard Stripe processing. Because no part of the marketplace depends on commissioning your lessons, matches are tuned for the best fit for your student — not for anyone's cut.
Yes. Free to search. Free to list your profile. No platform commission. Tutors subscribe to Pro Educator ($19/month) and keep their lesson earnings; marketplace payments carry a charity-bound 3% fee plus standard Stripe processing. This is structurally different from italki (15-21% commission), Preply (18-33%), Cambly (~59%), or Wyzant (25%) — all of which tax matched lessons forever.
Tutors keep their lesson earnings — there's no platform commission. Tutors subscribe to Pro Educator ($19/month) for the teaching toolkit; payments taken through the Koydo marketplace carry a charity-bound 3% fee plus standard Stripe processing, and tutors who arrange payment directly with students pay Koydo nothing at all. Full plain-English explainer at /how-tutors-get-paid.
Yes — the directory is public and crawlable today. Tutors can claim their city + language slot now and become the first verified Koydo Lingua tutor for that pairing. Students searching today will see who's already listed plus open slots they can request fill. Booking, calendar sync, and in-platform billing for matched lessons are future features (see roadmap below) — for now, the directory is matching only: students find tutors, contact them through Koydo messaging, and arrange lessons + payment between themselves. Founding tutors get a Founding Tutor badge + free first year of Pro Educator.
Every Lingua tutor profile shows verification level: email-verified (free), phone-verified (free), Stripe-connected (the tutor has set up payment receiving), and verified-tutor badge (a completed third-party background screen, required before any tutor can accept minor-facing bookings). Students searching can filter by verification level. Verified-tutor badges expire annually and require re-check.
Yes — 5-star + written review, available after a student completes their first lesson package with a tutor. Reviews require a completed lesson with payment recorded — no anonymous review-bombing. Tutors can respond to a review once (no extended back-and-forth threads). Reviews under 3 stars trigger a Koydo content moderation review for abusive language before publishing.
Searches for tutors who will teach under-13 students are parent-initiated. The parent's identity is verified per Koydo's standard COPPA flow (the same one used in the Sprouts and Junior age tiers of the consumer Lingua app). Tutors teaching minors must hold a verified-tutor badge from a completed third-party background screen. Lesson recordings, if any, are visible to the parent and the parent only — never published publicly.
Yes. A tutor profile can list any number of languages they teach, each with a separate CEFR ceiling (the highest level they can teach in that language). The profile-creation flow surfaces the 50 currently-shipping Lingua languages; if you teach a language not yet in Lingua, you can still list it but won't get the AI-tutor support for that language. We add new languages quarterly.
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