[1] As of May 2022[update], Lingvist offers introductory English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and Estonian courses, available in various languages.

[2] Lingvist's software analyses various text sources, such as subtitles or articles to determine the frequency of words in a given language.

[4] Lingvist was co-founded in 2013 by Mait Müntel, an Estonian physicist involved with the team that identified the Higgs-Boson particle at CERN, Ott Jalakas and Andres Koern.

[6] Lingvist announced in June 2015 an additional €1.6 million funding from the European Union, as part of the Horizon 2020 programme.

[7] In November 2015, the company raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Japanese e-commerce and online services giant Rakuten, with participation from investment firms SmartCap, Inventure, and from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and former Atomico partner Geoff Prentice.