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Strømmen Language Tutors and Group Classes offers private language tutoring, group language classes, and online language classes, along with corporate language training, translation, interpreting, and on-set coaching. The program also offers language quizzes, free level tests, accent reduction, and preparation for SAT, ACT, GMAT, LSAT, GRE, ISEE, and CAHSEE, as well as support with college applications, English literature, academics and study skills, math, science, music (including piano, guitar, and trumpet), art, and special needs. Tutors meet students online, at cafés, or at the student’s home or office.
• Price: Online tutoring: Pay as you go $79/hr; 10-hour package $69/hr ($690 total); 20-hour package $59/hr ($1,180 total). Tutor's location in Los Angeles: Pay as you go $109/hr; 10-hour package $99/hr ($990 total); 20-hour package $89/hr ($1,780 total). Your home or office: Pay as you go $139/hr; 10-hour package $129/hr ($1,290 total); 20-hour package $119/hr ($2,380 total).
Strømmen Language Tutors and Group Classes was founded in 2006 and is described as “Private language tutors · Los Angeles · Since 2006,” “Est. 2006 in Los Angeles,” and “Twenty years later, we're still at it.” The program states that language is “the most powerful tool that humans possess” and describes language as breaking down cultural barriers, making instant friends, and fostering compassion both personally and globally. One tutor, Cyril K, holds an MFA from Cal-Arts and a Matura B from Literargymnasium Zürich Rämibühl.
The organization describes itself as having 250 handpicked teachers who are personally known by the organization, teaching 50+ languages, with 250,000+ hours taught and 150+ entertainment credits for on-set work. It offers a free 30-minute trial with most teachers, free level tests with CEFR and ILR level information, and both group classes and private tutoring with teachers available in person and online. It is described as “a marketplace with a soul, where tutors and students actually know each other,” and HuffPost wrote, “Get the VIP treatment at Strømmen.” The program states that every teacher is interviewed in person, usually over coffee, and that there is no contract, with the option to rematch with a different tutor at no charge if the tutor is not a fit; it also states that there are no refunds, but remaining hours can be transferred to a new teacher at no extra cost.
Corporate clients include LA Opera and LA Galaxy. For over a decade, Strømmen has been the language instruction partner for LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Strømmen also reports a 6+ year partnership with LA Galaxy providing on-site ESL coaching and live interpreting during training, and offers corporate language programs with CEFR reporting.
Parent and student testimonials describe experiences with German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, and French. One student reports going from not knowing a single word to understanding Italian at an intermediate level in almost no time, and another says they now understand 95% of what they read and can watch Italian movies with Italian subtitles. A German student in Berlin reports that nearly every day someone compliments their German, and another student says that by the end of a 20-hour package they were having simple conversations in Italian about their life. Other testimonials mention being able to watch TV, listen to podcasts, and read news in Spanish and understand 80–100%, having long conversations and singing songs in Italian, and feeling on the way to navigating a trip to Germany and Austria. Multiple reviews specifically mention Cyril as a fantastic, patient German teacher whose classes include discussions on history, pop culture, literature, and digital media, reading and translating together, and writing short stories or journal entries with feedback.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
• Price: Online tutoring: Pay as you go $79/hr; 10-hour package $69/hr ($690 total); 20-hour package $59/hr ($1,180 total). Tutor's location in Los Angeles: Pay as you go $109/hr; 10-hour package $99/hr ($990 total); 20-hour package $89/hr ($1,780 total). Your home or office: Pay as you go $139/hr; 10-hour package $129/hr ($1,290 total); 20-hour package $119/hr ($2,380 total).
Strømmen Language Tutors and Group Classes was founded in 2006 and is described as “Private language tutors · Los Angeles · Since 2006,” “Est. 2006 in Los Angeles,” and “Twenty years later, we're still at it.” The program states that language is “the most powerful tool that humans possess” and describes language as breaking down cultural barriers, making instant friends, and fostering compassion both personally and globally. One tutor, Cyril K, holds an MFA from Cal-Arts and a Matura B from Literargymnasium Zürich Rämibühl.
The organization describes itself as having 250 handpicked teachers who are personally known by the organization, teaching 50+ languages, with 250,000+ hours taught and 150+ entertainment credits for on-set work. It offers a free 30-minute trial with most teachers, free level tests with CEFR and ILR level information, and both group classes and private tutoring with teachers available in person and online. It is described as “a marketplace with a soul, where tutors and students actually know each other,” and HuffPost wrote, “Get the VIP treatment at Strømmen.” The program states that every teacher is interviewed in person, usually over coffee, and that there is no contract, with the option to rematch with a different tutor at no charge if the tutor is not a fit; it also states that there are no refunds, but remaining hours can be transferred to a new teacher at no extra cost.
Corporate clients include LA Opera and LA Galaxy. For over a decade, Strømmen has been the language instruction partner for LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Strømmen also reports a 6+ year partnership with LA Galaxy providing on-site ESL coaching and live interpreting during training, and offers corporate language programs with CEFR reporting.
Parent and student testimonials describe experiences with German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, and French. One student reports going from not knowing a single word to understanding Italian at an intermediate level in almost no time, and another says they now understand 95% of what they read and can watch Italian movies with Italian subtitles. A German student in Berlin reports that nearly every day someone compliments their German, and another student says that by the end of a 20-hour package they were having simple conversations in Italian about their life. Other testimonials mention being able to watch TV, listen to podcasts, and read news in Spanish and understand 80–100%, having long conversations and singing songs in Italian, and feeling on the way to navigating a trip to Germany and Austria. Multiple reviews specifically mention Cyril as a fantastic, patient German teacher whose classes include discussions on history, pop culture, literature, and digital media, reading and translating together, and writing short stories or journal entries with feedback.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
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