Hi, I'm Angel.
I'm the person who built WazuCo — and honestly, I built it because I wish something like it had existed when I first tried to learn English.
It started in Hungary.
I grew up in Hungary, and English was the classic school subject: open the textbook, write things down, close the textbook, forget most of it. In school we learned a lot but we practised almost nothing — and at home there was nobody to speak English with. Sound familiar?
Then at 21, I moved to England. And that's when it got real.
The hardest parts were exactly what most beginners tell me today: the fear of speaking, people talking way too fast, not understanding the accents, and that awful feeling of standing there feeling stupid because you know what you want to say but the words won't come.
I was determined, so I did something a bit brave and a bit lonely — I avoided other Hungarian speakers as much as I could. I forced myself to be in English all the time. And then I got a job at McDonald's, which is where I actually started to DARE to speak. (Nothing teaches you fast English like a queue of hungry customers.)
Ten months later I was speaking English at the same speed I spoke Hungarian. I'm still learning to this day — but that was the moment I realised: this can be done.
I have ADHD — and it turned out to be a very positive thing on some level.
I've always been a visual learner. My brain doesn't sit still for grammar tables and word lists — it needs pictures, movement, stories, colour. Something to grab onto.
People started asking me how I picked up languages so quickly. I'd show them my way — pictures, connections, little scenes — and almost every single one said the same thing:
"No English teacher has ever taught me like this. They just open a textbook and it becomes boring."
I understood exactly what they meant. I NEED fun to learn, otherwise I get bored and I give up. And most people are like me, they just don't know it yet — they think they're "bad at languages" when really they were just handed the wrong tool.
Something started to grow in me in that moment. An idea, a wish — something that made me feel I could do more.
From helping friends to teaching properly.
I started helping Hungarian people practise English in 2009. Word spread, and I kept teaching people in this visual, playful way. Every time I taught someone, I got a little better at spotting where beginners get stuck — and why they usually give up right before it starts to click.
About seven years ago, I had the idea for a full English course built as a story. Not "today we learn numbers, tomorrow we learn colours" — but a real journey. You start on an empty field, with almost nothing, and you learn the words for what's around you. Then you walk into a village and, for the first time, you meet people. Then a small town. Then a park where you start talking about your past and your dreams. Every level opens because you're ready for it.
I had the idea back then. What I DIDN'T have were the tools to actually build it. So I waited, and I kept teaching, and I kept watching what worked.
The 59-year-old student who started this.
Right now I have one student. She's 59, and she absolutely loves my method. I started coding little games for her in HTML, one at a time, just to give her more ways to practise between lessons.
One day I looked at what I'd made and thought: hang on. If SHE loves this, other people will too. I already have the tools now. I know exactly what beginners need. I've been building this in my head for seven years.
That was the moment WazuCo went from an idea to a real website.
Around the same time, a friend of mine told me she has grandchildren she can't fully talk to because they don't share a common language. That's why WazuCo isn't just in English — I'm translating it into Hungarian, German, Spanish, Italian and French, so a grandmother in France can point her grandchild at Level 1 and they can start finding a shared language together. That story alone is worth all the late nights.
Why a story, and not just lessons.
Here's the honest difference between WazuCo and (for example) opening an app and drilling word lists:
I built you a whole story, so you can relate to it and actually WANT to go on the journey — instead of dragging yourself through disconnected blocks of "today we learn the numbers."
Every level has real photographs, spoken British English, drag exercises, listening, spelling, building sentences — always something different, so your brain never has time to get bored. And because it's a story, you always want to know what happens in the next level.
That's the whole secret: make it something people can't wait to sit down and do.
What I'm building next.
Level 1 will always be free. The next nine levels — the whole rest of the journey — I want to keep affordable: £70 for Levels 2 to 10 together. Because I've seen too many people give up on English not because they can't do it, but because they can't afford a tutor and can't stay motivated alone.
If I can help even a small piece of that, I'll be happy. And if this grows, I'd love to add more languages so people all over the world can use the same method to learn whatever they need.
Outside of teaching.
I live close to Leeds, in West Yorkshire.
I love finding solutions to the little problems that make everyday life easier — that's really the thread running through everything I do, teaching included. If you've ever felt "there must be a better way to do this," we'd probably get on.
My hobbies are all creative and hands-on: I love web design with HTML and JavaScript (WazuCo is basically my playground), and I build 3D things with a VR headset — because apparently one form of building things isn't enough for me. 😊
Come and see for yourself.
If any of this sounds like it might be for you, here are three easy ways to try WazuCo without spending anything.
Thanks for reading this far. 💛 — Angel
