Connect classrooms. Practise languages. Communicate for real.

LinguaLink by EduLeaf is a digital communication platform designed for language education. It creates safe, teacher-moderated spaces where students from different schools can meet, communicate and practise the languages they are learning.

The idea behind LinguaLink is simple: language learning becomes more meaningful when students have a real person to communicate with.

A class studying Finnish in one school could, for example, connect with a class studying Swedish in another. The students participate in the same conversations while using their respective target languages. One student may write in Finnish and receive a reply in Swedish, creating an authentic bilingual exchange in which both sides practise production while also encountering the other language naturally.

Communication across classrooms

Teachers create shared Spaces for participating schools and student groups. Within a Space, they can create discussion rooms, message walls, activities and live conversations.

Students can communicate using:

text posts and replies
images
voice messages
reactions and mentions
persistent discussion rooms
real-time Live Chat
teacher-managed small-group conversations

This makes LinguaLink suitable both for communication that takes place over several days or weeks and for lessons where students from different schools meet online at the same time.

Students do not need to create personal accounts. They join their teacher’s Space using a code and a first name or teacher-approved display name, keeping access simple while allowing the environment to remain controlled by the participating teachers.

Built for language exchange

Language rules can be configured for each activity.

A teacher can create a room where everyone writes in Finnish, Swedish or another target language. Alternatively, different student groups can have different target languages within the same conversation.

For example:

Students in Åland → communicate in Finnish

Students in Helsinki → communicate in Swedish

Both groups then participate in the same discussion while practising the language they are learning.

The platform separates the language of the interface from the language a student is expected to practise, allowing students to receive instructions and support in a familiar language while communicating in their target language.

Optional AI language support

LinguaLink includes an optional Language Coach designed to support rather than replace the student’s own language production.

Teachers decide whether AI assistance is available and what type of help students may receive.

If a student accidentally writes mainly in the wrong language, the Language Coach can privately remind them which language they should be practising.

When students need help, they can request vocabulary support, grammar hints, sentence starters or ideas for continuing a conversation.

Rather than automatically correcting everything or rewriting a student’s answer, the Language Coach is designed to provide progressively useful hints and encourage the student to find the solution themselves.

AI support remains private to the student and is controlled by the teacher’s settings for the activity.

Live language exchange

Teachers can also create real-time Live Chats for participating classes.

Students can communicate together in one shared conversation or teachers can divide them into smaller mixed groups.

For example, students from two partner schools can be automatically distributed across several small conversations, giving more students an opportunity to participate actively.

Teachers retain access to every small-group conversation and can move between groups, moderate messages, pause discussions, move students between groups and send announcements to all groups.

Live conversations use separate retention settings from longer-term discussion rooms, allowing temporary chat messages and associated media to be automatically removed after a teacher-defined period.

Designed for schools

LinguaLink has been designed around a teacher-controlled environment.

Teachers can:

invite collaborating teachers
create participating school groups
configure language rules
create and schedule activities
moderate discussions
manage Live Chats and small groups
give students private feedback
publish announcements
follow participation across groups

Persistent discussion rooms can remain available throughout a project and later be closed or archived.

The platform also provides students with a simple What’s New view so that exchanges do not require both schools to have language lessons at the same time. A student can post during a lesson on Monday and receive a response from the partner school when its students have their language lesson later in the week.

Current status

LinguaLink is an EduLeaf development project currently being prepared for pilot testing.

The current platform includes the core cross-school discussion, activity, Live Chat, small-group communication, moderation and Language Coach functionality.

The next stage is practical testing with teachers and students to evaluate usability, classroom workflows and how well the platform supports genuine communication between language learners.

LinguaLink by EduLeaf

Connecting language learners through real communication.

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LinguaLink – Developer Log

August 2026 — From idea to pilot-ready platform

Development of LinguaLink by EduLeaf began with a simple question:

Could students learning each other’s languages communicate in one shared digital space without needing accounts or complicated school IT systems?

The initial concept was a teacher-created message wall for students from different schools. It quickly developed into a broader cross-school communication platform built specifically around language learning.

The first development phase established the core structure: teachers can create shared Spaces, invite colleagues from partner schools, create student groups and give students simple access through join codes without requiring student registration.

Persistent discussion Rooms were then added, supporting text, replies, reactions, images and voice messages. Language rules can be configured for an entire Room or separately for each participating school group. This allows, for example, students in Åland to write Finnish while students in Helsinki respond in Swedish within the same conversation.

A teacher-controlled AI Language Coach was developed to provide optional language scaffolding. Rather than automatically correcting students, it can detect when the wrong language is being used and provide vocabulary, grammar and conversation hints when requested.

The next major development was Live Chat. Classes can communicate in real time in one shared conversation or be divided into smaller mixed-school groups. Teachers retain access to all groups and can moderate, move participants, pause conversations and broadcast instructions.

The platform has since gained scheduled activities, announcements, private teacher feedback, mentions, student inboxes, participation tracking and a What’s New system designed for exchanges where partner schools have lessons on different days.

A substantial technical hardening phase followed, focusing on anonymous participant security, server-side permissions, media validation, rate limiting, message de-duplication, AI safeguards, temporary Live Chat retention and privacy-conscious image handling.

The interface is currently available in English, Swedish and Finnish.

Current stage

Pilot preparation

The core platform is now functional end to end. The next phase is structured testing followed by small-scale classroom pilots.

The purpose of the pilot will not simply be to test whether the technology works, but to explore the more important question:

Does LinguaLink make it easier for students to use the language they are learning to communicate with real people?

Feedback from teachers and students will guide the next stage of development.

— EduLeaf, August 2026