Imagine learning a new language not through flashcards or grammar drills, but by collaborating with someone across the globe to create something meaningful.
This is the rationale behind the creation of LangLink, a collaborative language learning platform that connects learners worldwide.
With LangLink, learners do not need to memorize the language word for word. LangLink empowers learners to engage in a peer-to-peer language exchange. Through authentic resources, adaptive tools, and creativity, a global network of learners transforms learning into a social, immersive experience.
Real people, Real talk, Real progress is at the heart of Langlink. Making language learning engaging, collaborative, and creative.
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Want to know more about this venture? Here is the longer and more detailed pitch
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Hello Sinsi,
This is a great idea, your product addresses a real gap driven by globalization, where more people are eager to learn additional languages.
A few years ago, I took a course on dyslexia and learned that language acquisition is essentially a decoding process. For example, languages like English, French, and Spanish require the brain to decode sound and meaning, while languages such as Korean, Chinese, and Japanese require an additional step to decode visual shapes.
Grounding your product in this understanding makes it more pragmatic and user-friendly.
Thank you for sharing your insight. I appreciate how you connected your experience with dyslexia to the complexities of language acquisition. Thinking about how different languages require different types of decoding is important. This thought reinforces the need for a more flexible language learning platform. I agree that grounding a product in this kind of cognitive understanding not only makes it more effective but also much more inclusive and accessible.
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Thank you Sinsi, for your work on your venture, bringing a tool to market that could personalize and make language learning more intimate, relevant, and impactful.
I kept imagining a sophisticated, digital pen-pal platform — which is neat and I think could have been incorporated in your elevator pitch branding, to help draw in more potential investors. Doing so might quickly show your reimagining the potential of a respected, familiar and traditional writing practice to be more inclusive, impactful, and relevant in a digital, globalized capacity.
As for the elevator pitch, it felt text-heavy and fast-paced. I think reducing or slowing down the text — while perhaps adding audio narration — might help make sure that you don’t lose a potential investor in the elevator.
What would make me more excited about your venture, would be some hint as to how you envision your platform might target and support learning goals while measuring growth in language acquisition, in such an open and collaborative space. I started considering the following questions and became concerned about the viability of the venture’s design and function.
Would both learners share the same first language — connected to one another through their profiles in the platform — paired again with one another through their shared desire to learn the same language? Or would the speaker of one language be paired with the speaker of a language they want to learn and vice versa, working on a project of similar interest? Would there be an option for learners to work on their own with an AI? Could learning groups be set up like a MOOC, being completely open and collaborative, for anyone with a paid subscription to your venture being able to join that language learning space?
Thank you again for your work, Sinsi!