Welcome!

Are you ready to revolutionise the way you learn and communicate?

Let Languages through Music transform the way you express yourself and see the world.

Meet your teacher.

Obsessed with music and languages, Desta is deeply familiar with how much joy and opportunity that both can bring into your life. In this course she pours out her multicultural experience as a forever-student, teacher, singer, and jetsetting polyglot. Woven throughout the course is a passion for history, geography, and, above all, people. 

Learn how to…

Unlock culture and history

Maintain a growth mindset

Expand your networks as an artist or educator

Learn how to communicate with confidence

This course will give you:

  1. The Tools & Mindset necessary to become an independent learner who can grow conversational in any language through music

  2. The community to keep you motivated and inspired

  3. Cultural knowledge to expand your horizons

  4. Access to everflowing language-specific resources

  5. Practical tips to improve your own teaching practice

  6. A professional launchpad, whether you are hoping to work in languages, music, education or intercultural training and coaching

  7. All manner of resources: books, websites, courses, events, and apps and related reviews

  8. Travel tips from someone who is nearing 100 countries visited

  9. Guidance on how to improve your singing technique from a professional vocalist

  10. Worksheets to keep your progress on track and your action plan popping!

Inside the course

  • Your introduction to the course, time to get to know your teacher and get the lay of the LTM land.

    Space to settle, get inspired and collect the building blocks that will see you through the course.

  • Here we hone our Tools & Mindset. We establish foundation of knowing ourselves and how we learn. We set the scene for success and self-confidence, sustained motivation and wellbeing. We strengthen the vision and clarify the goals.

  • Community & Motivation: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Enrich your language journey by connecting to others in the language-learning spheres. Find people who are as interested in learning languages through music as you are, and vary your learning partners.

  • Cultural context is vital for communicating clearly, intelligently and sensitively. This chapter gives you the key to the cities!

  • The best thing about this course is that it empowers no matter what your target language is, plus it gives you access to an ever-expanding library of ebooks , playlists and other resources that will help you learn multiple languages. Now is the time to get involved!

  • Teaching is a set of skills that can be useful to you in so many ways. How to listen, support, guide, explain, enlighten, measure and evaluate: all contained in this noble profession. In this chapter get a taste of what it takes to teach— a curated selection of golden nuggets from dozens of different certificates and schools.

  • Teaching, interpreting, translating, coaching— where in the world can languages take you? How can they lift your career and broaden your network?

  • How to take a melody and make it into a lifestyle? Are you a singer, a musician, a curator, a manager? No matter what stage you are in exploring a music career, pick up some useful pointers into how to travel the world through song.

  • When I tell my friends I do ‘Intercultural Training’ the usually look baffled and ask me how that’s a job! It is a great, well-paid gig that most people don’t seem to know about. Learn what it entails and how you can add this to your freelance flex in a way that compliments your languages and travel experience. Turn your languages and cultural knowledge into cash flow in multiple currencies.

  • The more language and music knowledge I gathered, the more travel opportunities presented themselves. Now 90 countries in, I can share my top tips for seeing the world affordably.

  • This course is constantly replenished and refreshed, moving with the rhythms of new inspiration and discovery. Radios, apps, events, TED talks, books, you name it: if it has helped me on this journey, you will find it here.

  • All this new info and nowhere to go? No way! In this chapter you will set a failproof action plan that will get you to your fantastic future destination on one-way First Class ticket!

    With a Languages through Music Course certificate as your ‘laissez-passer’!

What people are saying
about the course

Not sure if I am more looking forward to the weekly language lesson or the musical discoveries and the windows they leave open towards their actual culture!

C. Morales

I went from barely being able to comprehend French to being conversational and fluent within that period!

Blitz Bazawule

Being able to learn in the comfort of my own home has been a treat after a long day at work.

Z Woodroffe