got questions? no worries!

create your profile here and you'll be able to apply from your dashboard.

we'd recommend taking a look at our guidance notes before applying too. 

check out our guide here on setting up and running a course 😊

we recommend keeping courses to 4 weeks but ultimately it's a decision for you as the course creator.

please feel free to contact us if you'd like support on pricing longer courses etc. 

we think when you're just starting out to aim for around 3 hours a week:

• 1 hour live teaching
• 1 hour planning/administration
• 1 hour answering questions/interacting with students via the internal chat. 

courses will (just like 1:1 lessons) require planning and structuring but this can of course be replicated once you have a format that works best for you. 

somos courses work best for students who are at least B1 looking to get use conversation practice to really improve their fluency. 

teachers are welcome to set their own rates within a recommended range of $25-$100/student per course.

assuming 12 students/per course & a minimum charge of $25/student, you should be able to earn around $240/course (net of commission & payment processing)

to help you plan, we've put together this handy calculator. 

it's entirely free to: join somos as a teacher, create a marketing profile and be part of our teachers' community! 

as a social enterprise, it's particularly important to let you know what we do charge for and how. 

take a look at our commission breakdowns here.  

ongoing access to your students

when you join somos, you'll be invited to host your own patreon style gated community for your past, current and future students !  

how it works:

• you set your own rate for monthly subscriptions.
• somos takes a small commission from your subscriptions (91% to you, 8% to us & 1% to our impact fund).
• you will be able to share content, host clubs, discussions & events, market & upsell any new courses (or language products you sell outside of somos) to your students.
• along with channels for posts & discussions, you will have your own voice/video room you can teach 1:1 classes in... entirely commission free!

host your own community 

we are using stripe as our payment gateway whilst we are in beta. this means:

• we can accept payments from students anywhere in the world. 
• teachers are independent sellers on the platform and will need to set up stripe connect accounts to receive payments. this is currently available in 47 countries - please check here to see if this service is available for the country you are based in.

if you are based in a country we aren't active in yet, please subscribe for updates and we'll update you as soon as we can.   

course creators are independent sellers on somos and will need to set up as a seller on stripe connect to receive payments.

this is currently open to sellers based in 47 countries.

we will be adding additional payment gateways when we are out of beta. 

if you are based in a country we aren't active in yet, please subscribe for updates and we'll update you as soon as we can. 

no, you do not. if you do have one, we'd recommend including it in your profile and also factoring it in when setting your pay rates. 

we do think it's reasonable for students to expect you to be fluent/C2 level in the language you are teaching. 

check out our minimum requirements to teach with us here.   

no! each course creator comes with their own story and we're here to support you market that to students in a way that resonates with them.

plenty of non-native linguists work incredibly hard to get to a level where they can teach languages to others and if that's you, we'd feel lucky to have you teach on our platform!

we do think it's reasonable for students to expect you to be fluent/C2 level in the language you are teaching.

apply to teach.    

yes! it's important to us that our team, communities we work in and course creators not only have a say in how somos is run but also benefit financially in any growth.

course creators will be able to invest in the business via targeted fundraising rounds and in addition, long-serving course creators will be eligible for our share/stock option scheme.

more to follow on this in 2023 when we are out of beta. 

find out more about our unique ownership model.