Language, Listening
& Human Unity

Founded on the principles of harmony, innovation, and scientific learning, the Auroville Language Lab is a unique language and research laboratory that draws upon the diverse linguistic culture of Auroville — a township that resonates with languages from all across the world.

At the core of our ethos is Auroville's vision of realising a society based on human unity and progressive harmony — an ideal that the Lab strives toward through meaningful engagement with language and human interconnectedness, as also through deepening one's self-awareness and expression.

The Lab welcomes everyone: Aurovilians, Newcomers, and Guests to experience language, speech, and listening in a paradigm-shifting way at its beautiful centre located in the International Zone of Auroville.

The Auroville Language Lab is the first centre in India to offer the Alfred Tomatis Method — a sophisticated listening and ear retraining program, also known as "Audio Psycho Phonology", which has both language-learning and therapeutic applications.

The method involves acclimatising the ear to sounds, frequencies, and cadences it has previously been unaccustomed to, retraining the brain to listen less selectively and more expansively. This enables learners to produce sounds of a new language like a native speaker and achieve native fluency in a relatively short time.

As of June 2019, we are the only place in India — and one of the rare places in the world — to offer group language training programs as well as Tomatis Classrooms using this method.