House of Languages is the language house on The House of Tutors, an online platform for learning English and Urdu. English covers spoken English and communication, business English, school and college English, writing, and test preparation for IELTS, TOEFL, and PTE. Urdu is taught both for heritage learners — children in the diaspora learning Urdu from scratch — and for native speakers following a school syllabus. Classes are offered live and self-paced. The house serves South Asian and Pakistani families across Pakistan, India, the UK, the USA, the Middle East, and Europe who want to build English for opportunity and keep Urdu across generations.

House of Languages teaches English across five areas: spoken English and communication, business English, school and college English, English writing, and test preparation for IELTS, TOEFL, and PTE. You can focus on one — a student needing IELTS, a professional needing business English — or build general fluency across all of them.

Business English English for the workplace: emails, meetings, presentations, and professional communication. Built for working people and freelancers dealing with clients and colleagues in the UK, USA, the Middle East, and beyond, where clear professional English changes how you're received.

English writing Learn to write clear, correct English — essays, structure, grammar, and organising thoughts on the page. This is writing as a language skill: how to say what you mean in written English clearly and correctly, which underpins school, university, and professional work alike.

Yes, House of Languages prepares students for IELTS, TOEFL, and PTE — the three English tests most often required for study, work, and immigration abroad. Each test is prepared for specifically, because they differ in format and scoring, and general English practice alone doesn't prepare you for their exact question types.

• IELTS — preparation across all four sections (listening, reading, writing, speaking), for students applying to study or migrate to the UK, Australia, Canada, and beyond.
• TOEFL — preparation for students applying mainly to universities in the USA.
• PTE — computer-based English test preparation, a common choice for Australian study and migration.

IELTS, TOEFL, and PTE are among the most-searched English learning needs for Pakistani and South Asian students, because a required band score often stands between a person and a visa, a university place, or a job abroad. Speaking practice with a live examiner-style partner matters most here, and is built into the preparation.

House of Languages teaches Urdu to two different kinds of learner: children in the diaspora learning Urdu from scratch, and native speakers studying Urdu as a school subject. These are taught differently, because a child in London hearing Urdu only at home has different needs from a student in Pakistan sitting an Urdu exam.

Urdu as a school subject Urdu for native speakers studying it academically — grammar, comprehension, literature, and the writing their syllabus requires — for students across Pakistan and in South Asian-curriculum schools abroad.

House of Languages offers both live classes and self-paced learning, on the website and the mobile app. Language learning leans more on live sessions than any other house except Quran, because speaking a language has to be practised with a person who can hear and correct you.

Self-paced learning

Structured lessons, grammar, vocabulary, and writing practice you can work through on your own schedule, useful between live sessions and for the parts of a language that are learned by repetition.

Here's the straight comparison, including where the alternatives win. A language platform that claims to beat free apps and specialist exam centres at everything is overselling.

Be honest about each. Duolingo is free and genuinely good for daily vocabulary and building a habit — what it can't do is correct your spoken fluency or prepare you for an IELTS speaking test, and most people who rely on it alone plateau at "can recognise words, can't hold a conversation." A dedicated IELTS centre may go deeper on that one exam than we do, and if a single test is your only goal, that focus is worth considering.

House of Languages is the better fit when you want live English practice, IELTS/TOEFL/PTE preparation, and Urdu for your family in one place — especially for diaspora parents who want both strong English for opportunity and Urdu kept alive at home, on the same account as the rest of their learning. Very few platforms teach both sides of that. That's the specific gap this house fills.

Every language instructor teaches under their real name, with their qualifications shown on their profile. For language teaching, what matters is whether an instructor can actually get a hesitant learner speaking, and whether they know the exact test a student is preparing for.

You can see an instructor's qualifications and what they specialise in — spoken English, exam prep, or Urdu — before your first class, because the right language teacher is one matched to what you're actually trying to learn.