Flamingos School was founded in 2016 as a supplementary Slovak language school for the children of Slovaks living in Cyprus.
Until the summer of 2020, we offered in-person Slovak language education, which became not only a place of learning but also a vibrant meeting point for the Slovak community. Over time, we built a lively and close-knit “flamingo” community – not only during classes but also through weekend events, celebrations, and shared activities for entire families.
Encouraged by the positive feedback from children, parents, and teachers, we gradually decided to move our work online, making quality Slovak language education accessible to students anywhere in the world.
Today, Flamingos is a global online school of Slovak language and culture, offering qualified and tailored instruction for both children and adults from diverse countries and backgrounds.
Although we have closed our physical school in Cyprus, our connection with the local community remains strong. We continue to support the Slovak community on the island and actively participate in cultural and community events.
At Flamingos, we believe that learning Slovak can be a playful, friendly, and accessible experience for everyone – regardless of their location in the world.
Our online school brings together children, teenagers, and adults who want to discover the beauty of the Slovak language – whether as their heritage language, a second language, or an entirely new world to explore.
Our students learn in the comfort of their own homes, stress-free, using modern technologies and methods that make grammar, vocabulary, and communication natural and easy to understand. We create a joyful learning environment, developing language skills through games, conversations, and real-life experiences, while fostering international friendships and building a community that transcends borders.
Flamingos is not just an online course. It is a living space where the Slovak language comes alive, connecting people and opening new opportunities – personal, family, and professional.
Today, Flamingos connects Slovaks and friends of Slovaks from more than 20 countries across five continents. Our students come from Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East – and each one finds their path to the Slovak language, regardless of their location.
Learning with Flamingos means much more than mastering grammar and vocabulary. It means gaining confidence, communicating in Slovak with ease and joy, and forming lasting international friendships that extend far beyond the screen.
Flamingos is where learning becomes an experience – and where the Slovak language stays alive in every corner of the world.
Personal contacts and face-to-face friendships cannot be replaced by virtual reality. However, modern technologies are a part of our daily life, so why not to use them for our best benefit, and for the benefit of our children? Sometimes it is difficult to provide regular exposure to Slovak language and regular in-person contact with children of the same origin. Having the option of live online classrooms can help us meet our goal.
So what do the online lessons look like? Well, our children exchange ideas about educational videos they watch together, complete various online quizzes for a comprehension check, read stories, learn interesting historical facts, talk about famous Slovaks, and learn about Slovak geography. They write stories and create projects on different subjects which they then proudly share with their classmates. They work in groups, in pairs, or individually in their breakout rooms.
They even dance, sing, and bake together! This module was not even in our imagination a few months ago. But today, we are totally enthusiastic about it and cannot imagine a more engaging and fun way of learning Slovak.
There are many existing educational centers and schools of Slovak language worldwide that offer lessons and educational activities. We do not aim to compete with these. We simply aim to meet the needs of children living in countries without these options, and to offer an added value to children in countries with existing Slovak schools.
Our school will continue to support personal gatherings and weekend activities for our students and their parents. We will personally continue organizing events in Cyprus. We strongly believe that there will be a chance of summer get-togethers of all our students in the form of summer camps in Slovakia in the near future.