Cafetalk 2025 Year in Review

Cafetalk 2025 Year in Review

  • Our tutors are from

    92 countries/regions

  • Our students are from

    140 countries/regions

  • Student feedback this year

    53,546

    (98.71% of it was 4 stars or more!)

  • Total Number of Requests in 2025

    more than 403,793

Online concerts by popular music tutors and a music festival in Tokyo

In 2025, we held the 8th Cafetalk Music Festival at the Ginza Yamaha Hall in Tokyo. These events are a great opportunity for students of music lessons to show the achievements of their hard work in front of an audience. Various students from young children to adults participated in the music festival and shared their love for music with the participating tutors and other performers.

Offline Events

We again welcomed Korean tutor Dahee to Japan for two in-person seminar series in Tokyo and Osaka, in Spring and Fall.

Cafetalk Book Club

Two to three times a year, the Cafetalk Book Clup opens its doors for book loving tutors and students to share their recent or all-time favorites. In the Book Club Radio we talk to tutors about their book recommendations and get to know them better. Feel free to check out featured books and past radio episodes any time!

Collaboration with Hapa Eikaiwa

Many Cafetalk English tutors were featured on the popular Youtube channel Hapa Eikaiwa.
Our tutors also participated in episodes of the Hapa Eikaiwa podcast, in the exclusive Hapa Buddies English study group and the quarterly Hapa School, where they helped students practice what they had learned during the 8-weeks intensive study program.

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And...

  • After the end of Skype we launched our own calling app called Lattep. as well as integration options for Google Meet and Zoom.

    After the end of Skype we launched our own calling app called Lattep. as well as integration options for Google Meet and Zoom.

  • Tutors may now make their lessons available for immediate confirmation. No need to wait for your tutor to manually confirm the lesson date/time anymore!

    Tutors may now make their lessons available for immediate confirmation. No need to wait for your tutor to manually confirm the lesson date/time anymore!

Cafetalk 2025 Event Timeline

Thank you
for a wonderful 2025!

Thank you so much for using Cafetalk in 2025!

The memory with the biggest impact this year was probably the end of Skype.
The shocking news that Skype, which had connected our Cafetalk students and tutors worldwide
since the launch of Cafetalk in 2010, would be ending, arrived on a Friday at the end of February.

We imagine it was a stressful period for all our students and tutors as they faced losing their familiar calling app.

However, we've overcome this difficult time together. Now, alongside major calling apps
like Zoom and Google Meet, our original calling app, Lattep, is widely used.
Thanks to this variety of options a more convenient and comfortable online lesson environment
is gradually taking shape. Furthermore, this year saw the addition of the “Immediate Confirmation” system,
and we plan to keep adding new features going forward.

While there are still many areas that may be unclear or lacking,
we will continue working throughout 2026 to create an environment
where everyone can enjoy their lessons and focus on learning.

We look forward to your continued support next year!

Take a look back at
your lessons this year

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