As university students mill around a bright and airy study hall in London, Eiad Zinah converses in his native Arabic with a female student from Germany.

It is the first time the pair have met for a language tuition session ¡ª and it is the Syrian refugee who is running the tutorial today, not the other way around.

¡°It¡¯s an amazing thing to be able to teach your language to other people because it will help them understand you more,¡± the 30-year-old said after the language class organized by U.K. social enterprise Chatterbox at the University of London.