Live online Writing and Language learning, built around the learner
Real classes with real teachers, shaped around what each learner is interested in, what they want to get better at, and the schedule they actually have.
Live online classes
Real sessions with a real teacher, not recorded lessons
Small-group and 1:1
Choose the format that fits the learner
Experienced Luminaries
Career educators and native speakers
100+ languages
Built on PEC's established virtual language experience
What Lumicademy Is
Personalized live learning, built around the learner.
Learners join live online Writing or Language classes led by expert mentors we call Luminaries. Every session happens in real time with a real teacher.
Writing comes two ways: the Writing Lab, a small group working through craft together, or a Writing Journey, one to one and shaped around a single writer's project. Language works the same way, in a small group or privately, across more than a hundred languages.
See Lumicademy In Action
See what learning looks like here.
Live conversations
Real back and forth with a Luminary and the rest of the class, in real time.
Thoughtful feedback
Specific notes on your actual work, not a score and a comment box.
Personalized mentorship
A Luminary who knows what you are working toward and plans around it.
Meaningful work
You finish with something real: a piece, a portfolio, a conversation you can hold.
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Explore Learning
Pick a subject and see what's available.
Two subjects, each with a group option and a one-to-one option. No hunting required.
Writing
Develop your voice, strengthen your craft, and create work worth sharing.
Writing Lab
Small group
A structured group experience with shared feedback and a cohort working through craft together.
Writing Journey
One to one
Personalized mentorship shaped entirely around what the writer is trying to make.
What we work on
Languages
Build real-world communication skills through live conversation, culture, and personalized guidance.
Group classes
Three to six learners
A small cohort practising together with one Luminary, speaking from the first session.
Private lessons
Solo or paired
One to one, or two learners side by side, shaped around what you want to be able to say.
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French
Russian
Arabic
GermanHow It Works
Three steps to your first class.
Step 1
Find your path
Choose Writing or Language. Each one shows the formats available and what they cost.
Step 2
Choose how you learn
Pick a class, a Luminary, a small-group or one-to-one format, and times that fit your week.
Step 3
Start learning
Enroll and join your live sessions online. Your Luminary takes it from there.
Meet Our Luminaries
Meet the humans behind the learning.
Luminaries are career educators, native speakers and working professionals. They are the reason the learning works, so here are some of them.
Cynthia
Spanish
Background
MA in Hispanic Linguistics, UC Riverside. Former Spanish professor at the Defense Language Institute.
Teaching approach
Classes built around real communication and culture, so students can use Spanish with confidence from the start.
Romana
Czech & Slovak
Background
Native Czech speaker with strong Slovak, who learned English properly only after moving to the US and using it daily.
Teaching approach
Practical lessons built on real communication and everyday language, so confidence grows from the first lesson.
Ximei
Mandarin & Cantonese
Background
Taught English in China, founded a language school, and now teaches Chinese in US public schools.
Teaching approach
Relaxed, interactive teaching that pairs language instruction with cultural immersion.
Luminaries don't just teach. They help learners understand why it matters and where it can lead.
A Luminary is a guide and a mentor. They help learners discover what interests them, develop skills that mean something, and see how those skills translate into real paths.
That is the difference between finishing a course and finding a direction.
Learner Stories
What learners walk away with.
Featured Story
From young writer to published author.
Julia came to Lumicademy with a draft and an idea. Working one to one with her Luminary through rounds of mentorship and revision, she shaped it into a finished piece and saw it published.
This is the kind of outcome the model is built for: not a grade, but a piece of work that exists in the world.
Who It's For
Built for learners who don't fit in a box.
If any of these sounds like the learner you have in mind, this will probably fit.
Creative learners
Learners with something to say who want their own voice taken seriously, not graded against a template.
Busy families
Schedules that already have too much in them. Live classes booked around the week you actually have.
Curious and advanced learners
Learners who have outrun the classroom and want someone who can keep pace with them.
Working adults
Learning aimed at something specific: a job, a move, a trip. Booked around a working week rather than a school term.
Why Lumicademy
Learning should illuminate something.
Most learning stops at the subject. We care about what the subject opens up. Luminaries are mentors rather than instructors, which means the learner's own voice and interests drive the work, and the work connects to somewhere real.
Discover
Start from what the learner is drawn to, then build outward from there.
Create
Produce real work, not exercises. Writing worth sharing, conversation worth having.
Illuminate
Connect the skill to somewhere it leads, so the learning has a direction.
Our Foundation
Built on a proven foundation.
Lumicademy was developed by Progressive Expert Consulting, Inc. (PEC) and builds on PEC's established experience delivering virtual language learning across more than 100 languages.
Pricing
What it costs, up front.
Price depends on the format you choose, not on which subject you pick.
Small group
A cohort working together with one Luminary
$25 to $40 / hour
Semi-private
A smaller pairing with more individual attention
$50 / hour
One to one
Fully personalized, built around one learner
$100 / hour
Frequently Asked Questions
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Lumicademy works with organizations and member-benefit programs to make meaningful virtual learning more accessible.