Distant Language is an International Language Center founded by Natalia Ripalda-Ardila Zavislak. She has been teaching English and Spanish since 2002, starting in her home country of Spain. Because of the Spanish financial crisis, she moved to the UK in 2009. As an immigrant, she continued on her aspiration to teach Spanish at the university level. While completing her Masters in Spanish at Instituto Cervantes and Goldsmiths University of London, she worked as a Spanish tutor, English substitute teacher, as well as a Starbucks barista. It was during that busy time in her life when the idea of creating a business in foreign language instruction first came to her mind.