Your method, now with a conversation partner for every pupil.
Embeddable AI widgets for speaking, pronunciation and writing practice, with instant feedback. Built for language learners rather than newsreaders, and plugged into your platform with a single HTML tag.
Already part of the methods of Plantyn, die Keure, Lernova and Noordhoff.
Two minutes of speaking time
Here’s a sum every language teacher can do in their sleep: 25 pupils, one teacher, 50 minutes. That’s two minutes of speaking time per pupil per lesson. Two minutes! You can microwave a burrito in two minutes. You cannot learn to speak French in two minutes. (We checked. Well, we checked the burrito.)
Teachers know this better than anyone. But with 25 pupils, one teacher and 50 minutes, the maths simply doesn’t add up. And every speaking or writing task that does get done ends up on a pile waiting to be corrected. Times 25. Times five classes.
AI should be able to help here. The catch: most AI was built for native speakers. Let a generic speech recogniser listen to a 12-year-old from Ghent trying out her French, and it gets about one word in four wrong. That’s not a learning tool. That’s a random word generator with a microphone.
What we built: widgets for speaking and writing
Linguineo makes embeddable language learning widgets: smart building blocks for speaking, pronunciation and writing practice that plug straight into your digital method. Your platform, your content, our technology. Pupils won’t notice where your method ends and our widgets begin.
Everything runs on AI built from scratch for second-language learners, not a generic chatbot with a language-learning sticker on it. We get genuinely excited about phoneme-level feedback for 12-year-olds learning French. You should see us at conferences.
Conversation player
Pupils talk to a virtual character to get something done: buying bread, asking for directions, explaining to a doctor where it hurts. Real tasks and real communication, rather than repeating phrases until the bell rings.
The player adapts as it goes. When the conversation runs smoothly, the task gets harder. When a pupil gets stuck, they get a hint, a slower bot or an easier task. And the bot is endlessly patient: it never sighs and never looks at the clock.
Pronunciation exercises
Pupils listen to a model, record their own voice and get immediate feedback, down to the individual sound. Not a vague “try again”, but exactly which sounds need work.
Our speech recognition knows the difference between an accent (perfectly fine, we all have one) and an error that would genuinely confuse a native speaker.
Interactive writing
A comment under a YouTube video, a Trustpilot review, a message to a friend: the kind of writing pupils actually do, instead of describing their summer holiday for the 47th time.
Feedback on grammar, vocabulary and tone arrives instantly.
The rest of the toolbox
Behind those three sits a full suite: more than 15 interactive formats (multiple choice, gap fill, drag and drop, matching, ordering, hotspots on images), plus vocabulary and verb trainers, all with audio, images and video. We can also string them into an adaptive learning path that picks the best next exercise for each pupil, as we did for Taaltrainer with Plantyn. Sometimes the best next exercise turns out to be no exercise at all.
A short intermission.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
Two languages? Bilingual.
One language? Off-the-shelf speech recognition.
What this means for you as a publisher
We work with publishers every day, so we know the reality: editorial calendars, curriculum goals, and a school year that starts on 1 September, ready or not.
Your content, your call
Your editors build a full conversation exercise in about 30 minutes with our content creation tool, without any technical knowledge. Specialists can fine-tune every detail: structure, tasks, answer types, adaptivity and bot behaviour.
No chatbot surprises
Conversations follow your scenarios and your curriculum. No bot wandering off into philosophy with a ten-year-old.
Less correcting for teachers
Automatic feedback on content and pronunciation takes over a large part of the correction work, leaving more time for actual teaching.
Dashboards with real insight
Every answer and recording per pupil, plus a class overview of the most common mistakes.
Integration in days, not months
One HTML tag, in your own platform, your LMS or Moodle. We’ve done this with publishers who had very specific wishes and very tight deadlines, and we’re still on good terms with all of them. Read the technical documentation.
Privacy without the small print
Everything runs on our own servers, language models included. Fully GDPR compliant, and no pupil data leaves the EU.
Already in use with almost 100,000 pupils
No prototype, no proof of concept. This school year, almost 100,000 pupils in primary and secondary education practise French and English with Linguineo, inside the methods of these publishers:
| Publisher | Where pupils meet Linguineo |
|---|---|
| Plantyn | Conversations in Casse-Cou, Coup de Cœur and Contact, plus Taaltrainer, an adaptive learning path we built together |
| die Keure Educatief | Pronunciation exercises in Passepartout (French, primary) and voicebot conversations in secondary |
| Lernova | Interactive writing exercises for French and English in secondary education |
| Noordhoff (Netherlands) | Voicebot for German and French: piloted in Dutch classrooms, contract for full rollout signed |
In its first year in Casse-Cou, 18,456 pupils used the voicebot. On average they completed 7.93 of the 8 conversations, at 11 minutes and 17 seconds each. Anyone who has tried to get a ten-year-old to finish eight of anything knows that’s no small feat. Read the Plantyn case study.
“Thanks to Linguineo’s technology, students can work on speaking courage in an accessible way within our blended learning solutions. The collaboration with Linguineo went very smoothly and professionally.”
Hannelore Verhaeghe
Publishing Manager
Uitgeverij Plantyn
Curious what this looks like in your method?
Request a demo and we’ll show you, with your content, for your target audience, on your platform, including a tour of the content creation tool and the dashboards. All it takes is one conversation. And unlike our voicebot, we also do coffee.
Considering building this yourself?
It’s a fair question, and we’ve written an honest answer about what it really takes.