Write for the Lingoodie blog
We accept original guest posts from writers who know language learning. We don't pay for posts, and we don't charge for them. What you get is exposure to our audience and one quality link back to your work.
The deal (what you get)
- Your byline and a short author bio (up to 60 words) on the published post.
- One dofollow link in your bio to your site, portfolio or profile.
- A share to Lingoodie's social channels when your post goes live.
- Light professional editing so your piece reads its best.
- We don't pay for guest posts, and we never ask you to pay. This is a straight value exchange.
What we love to publish
- Practical language-learning methods and study routines that actually work.
- Language-specific guides: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian and more.
- Learner and polyglot stories, motivation, and beating the day 40 slump.
- Immersion, expat life, and learning a language where it's spoken.
What we won't accept
- "Best app to learn [language]" or "best way to learn [language]" posts. We have enough of these.
- App roundups or comparisons of any kind, including ones that feature Lingoodie favourably.
- Anything about earning money, payouts, passive income, side hustles or rewards apps. We keep that in house.
- AI-spun or low-effort content. We can tell.
- Anything under 800 words or padded to hit a count.
- Off-topic niches: crypto, gambling, casino, loans, adult, pharma, get-rich-quick.
- Keyword-stuffed link bait, or more than one self-promotional link.
- Links to direct competitor apps, or affiliate links of any kind in the body.
- Content published anywhere else first. We only run originals.
Quality bar
- Original and well structured with clear subheadings. 1,200 to 1,800 words for the language-specific pieces, since they need room to teach something. 800 to 1,500 for everything else.
- Native-level English (or native-level in the target language for localized posts).
- Accurate, with sources linked for any stats or claims.
- No plagiarism. We check.
- House style: plain, friendly, specific. And no em dashes, ever.
Link policy
One dofollow link in your author bio. In-body links must point to genuinely useful, non-competing sources. We may nofollow or remove links that look purely promotional.
How it works
- Pitch your idea using the form below. Pick one of the commissioned titles if you can, or propose your own.
- We reply within 5 to 7 days. If it's a fit, we'll ask for a full draft in a Google Doc.
- We review and lightly edit. We may suggest changes before publishing.
- We publish, notify you, add your byline and bio link, and share it around.
Pitch your idea
Pick a title from the list above, or propose your own.
Topics we are commissioning
We get a lot of pitches for the same handful of ideas. These are the pieces we actually want, with the search term each one should be built around. Pitch one of these and you go to the front of the queue. Pitch something off this list and it needs to be very good. Every title below is a working title. Improve it if you can.
Spanish. This is where we want the most help.
We are building out a serious Spanish section and there is more here than we can write ourselves. If you teach Spanish, speak it natively, or learned it properly, this is the section to pitch into. We will take more than one of these.
Grammar decisions people actually get stuck on
Tú or Usted: The Choice That Changes How You Sound
Saber or Conocer: Two Verbs, One English Word
Porque, Por Qué, Porqué, Por Que: Four Spellings, Four Jobs
Gustar and the Spanish Verbs That Run Backwards
Haber or Tener: Which One Means You Have Something
Spanish Reflexive Verbs, and Why Se Is Everywhere
Lo, La, Le: Spanish Object Pronouns Without the Panic
Giving Orders in Spanish Without Sounding Rude
Sound and spelling
How to Roll Your R, Explained by Someone Who Could Not
Where the Accent Goes: Spanish Written Accents in One Rule
The Spanish Nouns That End in A and Are Not Feminine
Variety, vocabulary and getting started
Spain and Latin America: What Actually Changes Between Them
The First 500 Spanish Words, and Why the Order Matters
Ordering Food in Spanish Without Pointing at the Menu
The Mistakes Almost Every English Speaker Makes in Spanish
What to Watch and Listen To If You Are Learning Spanish
Every Spanish piece must link to our hub post, how-to-learn-spanish-fast, and to at least one other Spanish post on the blog. We will tell you which ones when we accept your pitch.
Other languages we teach, and barely write about
Lingoodie teaches ten languages and our blog has real depth in two. If you speak one of the others well, or you learned it the hard way, this section is yours. Native or near-native knowledge is the single thing most likely to get a yes here.
Korean
Hangul in a Weekend: Why Korean's Alphabet Is the Easy Part
Korean Honorifics: When Politeness Changes the Whole Sentence
Konglish: English Words That Mean Something Else in Korean
German
German Cases Without the Chart
Separable Verbs: Why German Sentences End With a Surprise
The German Words English Borrowed and Quietly Changed
Italian
Italian Hand Gestures That Carry Real Meaning
Essere or Avere: Picking the Right Helper for the Italian Past
Italian False Friends That Change What You Just Ordered
Portuguese
European and Brazilian Portuguese: What Changes When You Cross the Atlantic
The Nasal Vowels English Speakers Keep Missing in Portuguese
Russian and Ukrainian
For anything comparing Ukrainian and Russian, we will only publish a writer who speaks at least one of them natively, and we will edit it carefully. Pitch it if that is you.
The Russian Cases, Explained Without the Table
Cyrillic: The Letters That Lie to English Readers
Ukrainian for Absolute Beginners: The Alphabet in One Sitting
Croatian and French
Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian: One Language or Four?
Seven Cases and How to Survive Them: Croatian for Beginners
Liaison: The French Rule That Makes You Sound Fluent
How people actually learn
Open to anyone with real experience. We want specifics, not encouragement.
How to Practise Speaking When You Have Nobody to Speak To
Learning a Language Around a Full-Time Job
The Day 40 Slump: Why Learners Quit, and What Restarts Them
What Changed When I Stopped Translating in My Head
Reading Your First Book in a New Language, and Choosing the Right One
Language and the world
Broad interest pieces. These need to be genuinely interesting, not listicles.
Untranslatable Words That Deserve a Place in English
Where Languages Draw the Line Between Blue and Green
What Happens to a Language When Its Last Fluent Speakers Are Old
What a good pitch looks like
- Pick one title. One well-argued idea beats five thin ones.
- Tell us your angle in two or three sentences, and tell us what you know that most writers on this topic do not.
- If you speak the language natively or learned it to a real level, say so. It is the single thing most likely to get a yes.
- Every claim about a language needs to be right. We check with a native speaker, and we will send it back.