In 2015, the German Departments of the Chinese Culture University in Taipei and of Nanzan University in Nagoya (Japan) established the Language Link Project, an internet based teleconferencing project where Taiwanese and Japanese groups of German language learners (medium to advanced level) meet regularly online in a variety of communicative situations, from informal talks to structured discussions. This project disengages the students from the customary language learning framework with its inherent imbalances between student and teacher or language learner and native speaker. It creates a communicative environment which takes the participants beyond the intrinsic focus on the German speaking countries that habitually marks most German language learning settings, and aims at strengthening learners' autonomy in the sense of a ＂learning process of reflection, interaction, and experimentation＂