For professors and language instructors
Speaking practice your students do outside class, and evidence you can read in two minutes.
TwinTalk doesn't teach. Your students practise what you teach with a verified university student their age who speaks the language natively, and send you their speaking report if they choose. A faculty account is free, always.
- Free for faculty, forever
- No roster, no LMS, no approval
- Verified students only, 18+
Where Kay is
Around A2, steady · from 9 calls, 3 h 40 min of Kay's own Korean
What's working
Asks follow-up questions; links ideas with -고
What to teach next
Subject vs topic particles (이/가, 은/는)
Lines Kay chose to share
“주말에 친구하고 영화 봤어요.”
How it works for your class
Four steps, and only the first two are yours
Create your class2 minutes
Verify with your school address and a page on your school's site that names you. Name the course, the language and the level.
Share the kit5 minutes
A class code, a link, a QR code, a ready announcement in your voice and a slide to show in class. Post it in Canvas or say it in class: students sign up themselves.
Students meet their partnersAutomatic
Each student verifies their school email and is matched with a student abroad at the same hour every week. Nothing passes through you.
You read what they sendTwo minutes each
Reports from students who choose to send them, and a class summary once 5 students choose to be counted.
Why it helps your students
Speaking time is the scarcest thing
In a class of twenty-five, each student may speak for a few minutes a week. One conversation here gives them about twenty.
A peer, not a performance
A student their age, nervous about the same things, lowers the stakes. They try more, so they correct more.
The language as people use it
Their partner's Korean is the Korean of a Seoul university student today: idioms, reductions, what's actually said.
Evidence you can teach from
The Twin reads each student's own speech: where they are, what's working, what to teach next. Not a test score; real conversation.
Your questions
The eight questions professors ask, in the order they ask them
No. We don't teach. Your students practise what you teach, with a native speaker their age. The Twin shows you what they can do in real conversation, so your class time goes further.
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Is this a replacement for me?
No. We don't teach. Your students practise what you teach, with a native speaker their age. The Twin shows you what they can do in real conversation, so your class time goes further.
A class summary, once 5 students say yes
Being counted is each student's own choice, separate from sending a report, and off unless they turn it on. Below 5, you see nothing at all.
Summary ready
Where the class is speaking
What to teach next
- Particles 은/는 vs 이/가
- Reasons with -아서/어서
- Past tense -았/었-
Responsibility, plainly
What you're agreeing to, and what you're not
Sharing a code is your own choice, like recommending a book. You don't sign anything on behalf of your school, and your school isn't a party.
What you do
- Create a free faculty account, verified as you
- Share an optional announcement, if you want to
- Read the reports students choose to send you
- Offer a free alternative if you give credit for it
What you never take on
- Supervising, scheduling or monitoring any call
- Collecting, uploading or seeing a roster
- Handling students' data or accounts
- Paying, or being paid, anything
- Responsibility for what happens on a call: each student joins under TwinTalk's Terms, and TwinTalk's safety team handles every report
The Exchange Terms say so in writing: universities and professors are not parties and don't arrange, supervise or approve the calls. Read the Exchange Terms
The kit
Everything to share, in your voice
The announcement
In English or Korean, with your name and course filled in, the free-and-voluntary line, and a free alternative for any credit.
Code, link and QR
One code for the class. It works only for verified students of your school, and only up to the seats you have.
A slide for class
One page to project or print: what it is, how to join, the code.
What your students see
A walk-through of their screens, so you can answer questions before they're asked.
The pilot · Nov 9 – Dec 6
Try it with one class this term
Classes created for the pilot get 3 conversations of 30 minutes for each student, free: enough for every student to have a Twin with a level and a report to send you. Places are limited by the pilot's budget; the class form shows how many students it still has room for.
Why I built this
I learned English by talking with people who spoke it, not by drilling it. The hardest part wasn't grammar; it was finding someone to talk with, often enough, who was patient and my age.
The Exchange is that, made safe enough for a university and simple enough that a professor can say yes in two minutes. Write to me with any question: you'll get an answer from me, not a sales sequence.
Questions, answered
A code to your school address, then a page on your school's own website that names you (a directory entry or a program's faculty list). We check it automatically; if we can't, a person checks within a day.
A current student email at your school, a phone or a computer with a camera, and to be 18 or over. They sign up themselves with your code.
English and Korean now: your students learning Korean meet students in Korea learning English, and the other way round. More pairs are configuration, not a rebuild, and will follow.
Matching widens by itself: sister school, then the same wave of schools, then any verified student abroad. Students see an honest wait, never a fake one.
Any verified student can join on their own. Your code only adds the class: the seats, the sister school, and your name ready on their report.
Seats end with your school's term plus a week; a student's own pass runs its 15 weeks. Three weeks before, you get next term's class in one tap, with this term's numbers.
Aggregate, anonymous figures can support research under your own ethics review. Write to us before you start; nothing identifies a student.
Set up your class in two minutes
Free for faculty, optional for students, and nothing to approve.