Amara & Hana, Tuesday Korean Circle
Arabic-English Exchange, St. Mark's
Mrs. Park teaches honorifics
Thursday Conversation Circle
Families helping families
"This word has no translation"
Wednesday Somali-English Circle
David, volunteer since 2019
Notes from the Saturday circle
Farsi-English Tea Circle, Fridays
The best mistakes become stories
Resources made by the community
Every Language Is a Door. Every Neighbor Has a Key.
Korean grandmothers, Syrian refugees, retired librarians, curious neighbors — trading grammar for stories across folding tables in community centers and church basements. The kettle is already on. There’s a chair with your name on it.
What’s Happening This Week
Circles, stories, and resources — mixed together the way a real bulletin board looks. Nothing sorted by importance. Everything sorted by warmth.
Hyun-ja Kim
All levels
I came to the English circle because I needed to understand the school enrollment forms. I stayed because Margaret taught me the word for the feeling you get when a stranger becomes a friend.
Fatima Al-Rashid
Parent-Teacher Conference Phrases
Key phrases and questions for navigating school meetings with confidence.
Rosa Delgado
Beginners welcome
Omar Khalil
Intermediate
Medical Appointment Vocabulary
Symptoms, questions, and consent phrases for healthcare visits.
I retired and my neighbor of eleven years and I had never done more than wave. Now we meet every Thursday. He is teaching me Yoruba. I am teaching him crossword puzzles. We are both terrible at the other's subject.
David Okafor
Nasrin Tehrani
Tea & Talk
Neighborhood Navigation Phrases
Transit, grocery, post office — everyday phrases for getting around.
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Find Your Circle in Under a Minute
Tell us your neighborhood, the language you want to practice, and whether you want to learn, teach, or just talk. We’ll find the circles that are already waiting for you.
Find Your Circle
Three fields. One community waiting.
Friendship Found in Broken Conjugations
Nobody comes for perfect grammar. Everyone stays for the person across the table.
I taught Korean for forty years in Seoul. Here I am the student too. The college students teach me the slang my grandchildren use. We are all learning. That is the point.
Sunhee Park
Korean grandmother, Tuesday circle host
My parents spoke Twi at home when they didn't want me to understand. I joined a circle to finally understand. Now I call my grandmother every Sunday and she cried the first time I greeted her properly.
James Osei-Bonsu
Second-generation Ghanaian-American
Linda was a retired librarian who had never met a Syrian person. I had never met a librarian who baked bread and brought it to English class. We have been friends for three years. She came to my daughter's birthday.
Miriam Saleh
Syrian refugee, ESL student
47
Active circles this week
2,400+
Neighbors matched
47
Languages and counting
6
Years of community
Everything You Need, No Registration
Phrase sheets, vocabulary guides, and conversation tools — made by community members for community members. Download freely, share widely.
School Enrollment Phrase Pack
Navigate registration forms, IEP meetings, and parent-teacher conferences. Available in 8 languages.
Medical Appointment Vocabulary
Symptoms, consent phrases, prescription instructions.
Neighborhood Navigation
Transit, grocery stores, post offices, and local services.
Housing & Lease Vocabulary
Tenant rights, repair requests, lease terms — plain language guides with translation.
Conversation Starter Cards
Printable prompt cards for circle hosts — questions that go deeper than the weather.
The kettle is already on.
There are 47 circles happening this week in neighborhoods like yours. The chair across from someone has your name on it.