Baltimore Social Innovation Journal, Fall 2016 Fall 2016 | Page 29

world, all learning English together for
the first time. So how does a Ghanaian
communicate with a Syrian communicate
with a Guatemalan? Zlatic says ClassTracks
will speed up the process.
“When I came to this country at age six,”
she recalls, “I knew only five words: ‘Old
MacDonald had a farm’. That’s it.”
But surely that was an icebreaker? After
all, music is the universal language.
“Nope,” she laughs, “I couldn’t sing it. I’m
tone-deaf!”
Tone-deaf or not, Zlatic has hit a high
note with ClassTracks and hopes to expand
its reach for learners of new languages
everywhere.

N A ME: Lida Zlatic
I N N O VAT I O N : Creating an app to make foreign-

language learning & teaching more efficient

A G E: 30
H O ME: Charles Village
O CCU PAT I O N : Spanish Teacher, CEO of ClassTracks
H O BBI ES : Martial Arts, reading
FU N FA CT: Spent first year of college at Oxford,

didn’t like it.

T W I T T ER H A N D L E: @LidaZlatic

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