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Francesca Pini

Francesca Pini

Co-founder and CEO of Language Angels, a UK primary foreign language teaching platform, with 27+ years of classroom language teaching experience.

Sep 28, 2026

4:56
So what was the moment, the light bulb moment, if you want to call it that, that made you think, let's set up Language Angels?
5:07
It didn't really happen like that, but there was a moment where we decided to do that.
5:11
So I had a particular position in a language college.
5:16
So there was a secondary school that was language college, and I had to go into the primary schools to train their teachers.
5:23
And it was really hard.
5:24
So I was AST for the London Borough.
5:28
I thought I had all the necessary skills and it was going to be really easy and I could train teachers.

27 MINS LATER

32:09
Francesca, do you want to talk us through what they meant by the critical period and why that is so important? Because that's kind of central to everything you guys do.

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