Teach Darija on 'kilma'. Keep what you earn.
'kilma' is the learning platform for Moroccan Darija. Learners study vocabulary on their phone, tablet and computer, and they speak it with real teachers in one-to-one lessons, in English, French, Spanish, German or Italian. Both run on one learning record, so every lesson starts where the learner actually is. Your Darija is a given; what we have to check is the language you will actually hold your lessons in.
What you get
We are a team of developers, designers and teachers with years of experience building learning platforms. 'kilma' rests on the findings of learning research: retrieval before the answer, spaced review, both directions, feedback with content. Your lessons sit on top of that, and the app does the repetition work between them.
A classroom built for language lessons.
One-to-one video, shared whiteboard, chat, photo annotation. Scheduling runs in 'kilma' and mirrors into your Google Calendar. Your students never need a Google account.
The learning record, before the lesson starts.
When you enter the room, you see what the learner studied, how the homework went and which words were hardest over the last 30 days. You build the lesson on words the learner already knows.
Homework that closes the loop.
You assign it in one click, the learner solves it in the app, and you see the result in the next lesson. Between lessons the learner keeps working with the trainer, so the next hour starts further along.
Your own content.
Private categories and tags for your students, next to the shared corpus. What you create stays yours and visible only to you and them.
Learners who stay.
Learners can work with several teachers in parallel on one learning record. A learner who keeps studying between lessons is a learner who keeps booking them.
The language test (optional)
The test comes after your profile, and it is optional. It shows learners and us how well you speak your teaching language. One ladder per language: you pick the languages you want to teach in, and each one is tested separately, from A1 to C1. You can add more languages later.
A CEFR ladder (the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) with five rungs: A1 → A2 → B1 → B2 → C1. You start at A1, like everyone, and each rung opens once you have passed the one below it. B1 is the level we look for in a teaching language; anything above it is voluntary.
A1 and A2 are the warm-up. They exist so that you meet the format, the microphone and the clock on harmless material, before anything counts. They are still marked properly.
How a rung works
- A15 written questions, 60 seconds each, then one spoken task on your phone.
- A25 written questions, 60 seconds each, then one spoken task on your phone.
- B212 written questions, 60 seconds each (120 if the question comes with a text to read), then two spoken tasks on your phone.
- C112 written questions, 60 seconds each (120 if the question comes with a text to read), then two spoken tasks on your phone.
The written part runs on this screen: one question per screen, a visible countdown, always forward. Pass it and your screen shows a QR code: you open it on your phone, type the number your phone shows back into the browser, and the spoken part runs there. You get 30 seconds to think about each task, then the recording starts on its own and stops on its own. One go, one take.
What you need, honestly
A phone with a working microphone.
The spoken part runs only there.
Five separate sittings, spread over several days.
Each rung is its own session of roughly twenty minutes, one after the other.
Recordings are made, and a transcript of them is assessed.
Your recording stays on our own server, where it is turned into text. Only that text goes to Google Gemini, which marks the language and sets a level. You will be asked to agree to this in writing before the first recording, and you can stop at any point.
One retry per rung
Seven days after an attempt that did not pass, with questions you have not seen. After that the rung is closed.
What the work pays
'kilma' keeps a flat €3 per lesson, as an amount and never as a percentage. Whatever the lesson costs, the rest is yours, and every price rise reaches you in full.
The introductory price is a window for each learner, not a date in the calendar: it runs for the first 30 days after their first lesson. From then on that learner pays the regular price, and your fee rises with it. Lessons a learner already bought keep the price they were bought at.
Senior is the third step, and it is reachable by anyone: 150 lessons held, an average rating of 4.8 or better from at least 20 ratings, and at most 2 % short-notice cancellations of your own across your last 100 lessons. Once you hold it, only the cancellation rate can end it: a rating never takes it away. All of this is on the pricing page too; everything here is what we say publicly.
The 25-minute introductory conversation costs the learner €5, and all of it is yours.
What we ask
- You speak Darija as a native or near-native speaker and teach it through English, French, Spanish, German or Italian.
- You complete your teacher profile. The language test is optional.
- You join a live conversation with us and teach one trial lesson.
- You keep your calendar current and your cancellations rare.
What your profile needs
Your teacher profile is the first step after you apply. It asks for the following. Certificates are optional; everything else is required.
Your identity.
An ID card or passport, with your full name and address as they will appear in your contract. Only our team sees it; it never appears on your profile.
A photo of your face.
A clear picture of your face. We tidy it up for the site, and you keep the original.
A few sentences about you.
In English. This is what learners read before they book.
The languages you speak, and how well.
Your own assessment for each language. Mark your mother tongue as Native and add at least one of French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch or Portuguese at B1 or above. This is your own estimate, separate from the test.
Certificates, if you have them.
Language certificates such as Cambridge, DELF or DELE, and teaching qualifications such as TEFL or CELTA. Upload them as a file.
Where you are and when you teach.
Your country, your time zone and the hours you are available for lessons.