Our Classes
Through our classes, students can build a strong foundation in fundamental language skills, improve their conversational abilities, and dive into a new culture. Our small class sizes provide a relaxed and encouraging learning environment. Led by enthusiastic, native-speaking teachers, our beginner and intermediate-level classes are offered weekly in over five different languages.
Currently, we are offering classes in Arabic, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, and Japanese. There are classes at the beginner- and beginner-intermediate level. Registration for classes opens at the beginning of each semester.
Spanish
Juliana
My name is Juliana, I'm from Colombia, and a second-year MINT student specializing in Human Rights and Humanitarianism. I'm a proud Latina and I love to share my culture and what Spanish means to it with everyone who wants to learn!
Italian
Gabriele
Gabriele Toso is a second year MINT student in the Human Rights and Humanitarianism track. Since he is very passionate about his country, its culture and its food, he decided to be an Italian Teacher with the Language Initiative. Then, he became the Teachers Coordinator because he really hopes to improve synergies among the other teachers. He is passionate about sports and politics and he could talk for hours of fun facts about the Olympic Games. TIP: Don't compete with him in a quiz game. He gets super competitive and might choose to disappear for a few hours if he loses.
Arabic
Ranwa
My goal in teaching Arabic is to always make it approachable and fun, so students could enjoy learning without feeling discouraged or overwhelmed by how difficult it’s often said to be!
Japanese
Shuhei
Shuhei Sasayama is first year MINT student specializing in Sustainable Trade and Finance. He is a pure language lover who has always been leaning a new language for the past 15 years. He also enjoys sharing his own culture — Japanese culture — be that may cuisine, music or way of thinking. As a member of the event management team, he is hoping to provide space for fellow-language lovers and culture lovers.
Spanish
Elena
Elena is a second-year IR/PS master’s student who grew up bilingual in Spanish and French. This early exposure to a multicultural environment sparked her curiosity for other places, cultures, and ways of thinking. For her, the most important part of language learning is its power to connect people - breaking barriers, fostering tolerance, and bridging differences. That’s is why she loves teaching Spanish: to share not just a language, but a way to connect with the world.
German
Cosima
Cosima Rudigier is a first-year MINT Sustainable Trade and Finance student. She is half Austrian, half American and has had a passion for learning languages since she was little due to her multilingual upbringing. As a German teacher at the Language Initiative she hopes to convey this passion and the quirks of the German language to her students and hopes to take away their fear of the infamous German articles "der, die, das". Growing up in the Austrian Alps she is an avid skier, climber, and hiker - passions she continues to follow in beautiful Geneva!
Russian
Diana
Become a Teacher!
Do you see yourself teach your mother tongue? Share your culture? Contribute to the language learning opportunities at the Institute?
We are always open for additional languages and new motivated teachers. Just reach out to us!