Albena Simeonova and Antoaneta Getova hold Master degrees in Bulgarian with a minor in English from the St Kliment Ochridski University of Sofia. Albena Simeonova has a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults issued by Cambridge University and had taught English in several well-established English private schools in Sofia before she started working as a Bulgarian language teacher for the American Embassy in Sofia. There she was joined by Antoaneta Getova in 1998, who had before worked as a teacher, journalist and a magazine editor. She founded her own Bulgarian as a second language