More speaking practice for every learner. Less correcting for you.
AI exercise widgets for speaking, pronunciation and writing, with instant feedback. You create them with our Content Assistant, and they appear right inside your own Moodle course.
A Moodle quiz can’t order a coffee
You teach a group of adults one or two evenings a week. Twenty learners, twenty levels, twenty reasons for being there. In class you do your best to get everyone talking. Then they go home, and until next week the only practice waiting for them is in your Moodle course.
Moodle is good at many things. A quiz can tell whether a learner ticked the right box or filled in the right verb. It can’t tell whether they can order a coffee in Spanish without the barista switching to English halfway through. Speaking and writing, the skills your learners signed up for, are exactly the ones they can’t practise on their own.
Unless you correct everything yourself, of course. Every recording, every text, every learner, in your free time. Which, for most language teachers, is a largely theoretical concept.
You stay in control: the Content Assistant
Our widgets don’t come with a ready-made course you have to bend your lessons around. You make the exercises, for your course, your learners and your themes. The Linguineo Content Assistant does the heavy lifting.
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Describe what you need
A theme, a level, a few target phrases. “A1 learners calling the doctor to make an appointment” is enough to get started.
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Get a solid first version
The Content Assistant builds the exercise with sound language teaching principles built in: a clear task, the right level, support where learners might get stuck. A full conversation exercise takes about 30 minutes.
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Make it yours
Review everything, change what you want, and publish it to your course. Nothing reaches your learners until you say so.
The AI suggests, the teacher decides. That’s not just a slogan, it’s how the tool is built. And because speaking and writing are the hardest skills to practise alone, the Content Assistant pays extra attention to exactly those.
The widget library
A complete toolbox, from a first vocabulary list to a full conversation with a virtual character. Every widget runs on speech technology built for language learners rather than native speakers, so it understands your learners, accents included. Even on a Thursday evening after a long day at work.
Conversation player
Talk or write with a virtual character to get something done: book a hotel room, return a jacket with a broken zip, explain to the GP where it hurts.
Feedback: on content, grammar and pronunciation, plus hints when stuck. The conversation adapts to their level as they go.
Speaking tasks
Answer out loud to a question, picture or video clip.
Feedback: on what they said and how they said it.
Pronunciation exercises
Listen to a model, record themselves, try again.
Feedback: down to the individual sound, so they know exactly what to work on.
Interactive writing
Write in real-life settings: a comment under a video, a review, a message to a colleague.
Feedback: on grammar, vocabulary and whether the tone fits.
Interactive exercises
More than 15 formats: multiple choice, gap fill, drag and drop, matching, ordering, categorising, hotspots on images, with audio and video.
Feedback: instantly, with the correct answer explained.
Vocabulary and verb trainers
Learn new words and conjugations in short sessions.
Feedback: words they get wrong come back until they stick.
Prefer a ready-made route? We can also combine the widgets into an adaptive learning path that picks the best next exercise for each learner, as we did for Taaltrainer with publisher Plantyn.
Technical details? Read how to integrate the conversation player and how to configure it.
A short grammar break.
“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“To.”
“To who?”
“No. To whom.”
Two ways to add the widgets
Your learners already have a place where they learn. We’d rather fit into it than ask everyone to download another app and remember another password.
In your Moodle course, with our plug-in
For CVOs and language schools that run Moodle. Your ICT coordinator installs the Linguineo plug-in once, and from then on teachers add widgets to their courses like any other activity. Learners stay in the environment they know, and teachers see the results next to the rest of the course.
In your own platform, as web components
For publishers and organisations with their own learning platform or website. Each widget embeds with a single HTML tag, works with plain JavaScript, React or Angular, and connects to your own login system. Your developers will appreciate that. Read the technical documentation →
Using a different learning platform? We’re working on more ready-made integrations. Let us know which one you use, and it may well move up our list.
Tested in real classrooms
This autumn, three adult education centres started a pilot with the Content Assistant and the Moodle plug-in: CVO Volt, CVO De Verdieping and CVO Lethas Brussel. At CVO Volt, language teachers and ICT coordinators built their first speaking and writing exercises themselves during a workshop. Next up: plenty of testing, evaluating and fine-tuning with the people who actually use it.
The technology underneath isn’t new, though. The same speech recognition and conversation engine runs in the language methods of Plantyn, die Keure, Lernova and Noordhoff, where almost 100,000 pupils practise with it this school year. And in the LinguAI project with UCLL and SyntraPXL, teachers use our content creation tool to build job-specific Dutch exercises for healthcare students.
Want your learners practising between classes too?
Request a demo and we’ll build an exercise for one of your own courses, live, so you see exactly what your learners would get. You bring the theme, we’ll bring the voicebot.
A teacher without a Moodle administrator at hand?
Get in touch anyway. We’d love to hear what you would use this for.