Why I Built My Own Online Language School

Some people spend their lives searching for what they are meant to do.

For me, the signs were there long before I understood them.

As a child, I would line up my dolls in perfect rows, enroll them in imaginary classes, and spend hours playing teacher. My parents would laugh and say, “She is going to become a teacher one day.” At the time it felt like a game, but looking back now, it feels more like destiny quietly announcing itself.

Life, however, rarely follows a straight line.

Before I became a language teacher, I was a dancer performing and teaching all over the world. Later, I returned to college to formally study bilingual and childhood education. Over the years I worked in many different school environments and experienced both uninspiring classrooms and some of the most brilliant educators imaginable.

Those experiences slowly shaped a realization inside me. I did not just want to be a teacher.

I wanted to build something of my own.

That vision eventually became Csilla Language Lab, an online language school designed around freedom, creativity, and a different philosophy of learning. A classroom that can exist anywhere, whether I am teaching from Zurich, Budapest, Paris, Dubai, or wherever the world takes me.

Looking back now, there were five clear reasons that pushed me to create it.

1. Teaching Was My Calling Since Childhood

Some careers reveal themselves very early.

As a child I was constantly playing teacher with my dolls. I would line them up, assign them imaginary lessons, and organize my own little classroom. My parents always said they knew I would become a teacher one day.

At the time it was simply a game, but the instinct was already there. Teaching always felt natural to me. I loved explaining things, guiding others, and creating an environment where learning could happen.

2. My School Experience in Switzerland Showed Me What I Did Not Want Education to Be

Ironically, my own experience as a student was not always positive.

Growing up in Switzerland, school often felt rigid and uninspiring. Many of the teachers I encountered followed strict systems that left little room for creativity or connection. Lessons felt mechanical and distant rather than engaging.

Those years stayed with me and taught me something important. If I ever became a teacher myself, I wanted to create the opposite experience. I wanted learning to feel alive, inspiring, and meaningful. I wanted to become the kind of teacher I never had growing up in Switzerland.

3. University Showed Me What Inspiring Education Looks Like

Later in life when I enrolled in college in America to study bilingual and childhood education, everything changed.

For the first time I encountered professors who were deeply inspiring. They came from fascinating backgrounds. Some had performed on Broadway. Others had worked with organizations like NASA. Some were authors. Many were immigrants who brought their life stories and experiences into the classroom.

Their teaching felt alive and authentic. They showed me what education could look like when curiosity, creativity, and real life experience enter the classroom.

That experience reshaped my understanding of what a great teacher can be.

4. As an Artist I Was Meant to Create My Own Path

Before entering the world of academia and language education, I spent years working as a dancer and dance teacher.

Art shapes how you see the world. It teaches you to trust your instincts, to think independently, and to create something original. Because of that background, I quickly realized that traditional institutional structures were not where I thrived.

I have never enjoyed blindly following rules or working under systems that limit creativity. I prefer building something myself and shaping it according to my own ideas and values.

Creating my own school felt like the most natural path. I am a creator by nature. I love fashion, luxury, and social media, and I have always believed that education does not have to exist in a rigid or outdated image.

Teachers are often expected to be serious, traditional, and almost invisible behind their profession. I never believed in that idea.

Being an academic does not mean losing personality, creativity, or style. In fact, I believe the opposite. Education becomes more powerful when it is human, expressive, and connected to the world we live in.

Through Csilla Language Lab, I want to show that a teacher can be intellectual and stylish at the same time, serious about education while still bringing creativity, personality, and culture into the classroom.

5. Online Teaching Made Freedom Possible

The final turning point came during the pandemic.

When schools in America suddenly moved to online learning, many educators saw it as a temporary solution. For me it felt like a revelation. I realized that a classroom no longer needed to exist inside a single building. I no longer need to commute to a school to teach children.

Students could connect from anywhere in the world. Teaching could happen from different cities and different countries.

In that moment I understood exactly what I wanted. Freedom, independence, and the ability to teach in a way that truly reflects my philosophy.

Csilla Language Lab was never just a business idea. It was the result of years of experiences, frustrations, inspiration, and a desire to create something different.

Today my classroom is no longer tied to a building. It can exist anywhere in the world, wherever my students and I connect.