Elham Yaghoubi
The English homepage sets the teacher's name at poster scale, with a cutout object for each language layered in front of and behind the type.
06 Overview
Elham Yaghoubi · 2026
Project thesis
Overview.
Elham Yaghoubi teaches Persian, Turkish, English, German and Russian and runs Elingua, a language academy registered in Armenia with an Android app for learning Turkish. I replaced a pasted-HTML WordPress setup with a custom bilingual theme: Persian-first RTL with an English mirror, poster-scale typography layered with photographic cutouts, five colour-coded language chapters, and a gamified layer where visitors earn XP, CEFR-style levels and passport stamps for hearing words, finding hidden letters and playing short language games.
03 Core Features
Built to be played.
Three systems that make the site playable, properly bilingual and easy to find.
Key Design Decisions
Poster type meets cutouts
Condensed Latin and Lalezar Persian headlines are layered with custom photoreal cutouts for each language: a Turkish tea glass, a pretzel, a matryoshka, a phone box and a pomegranate.
Flags as navigation
Hovering a language turns the whole index into that country's flag with a silk sheen, and a floating flag navigator follows visitors through the five chapters.
