AI-Laoshi Will See You Now: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Chinese Language Learning

Teachers are an excitable lot prone to excessive consumption of caffeine and loudly proclaiming that [Insert New Technology Here] will doom a generation to intellectual oblivion. Whether it was television, computers, the Internet, Wikipedia, or now AI, we've seen this panic before. But in this episode, Jeremiah and David try to do a few deep knee bends and discuss what AI actually means for Chinese language learning. How do we teach when near-perfect translations are waiting on students' phones? How do we integrate AI into our work while putting guardrails on classroom use? AI might be the greatest learning tool since Pleco, but how do we keep the focus on connecting with actual humans, not impressing silicon tutors? An episode for language teachers, students, and anyone wondering if robots will eventually make them fluent in Mandarin.

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AI-Laoshi Will See You Now: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Chinese Language Learning is an episode from Barbarians at the Gate by Barbarians at the Gate.

This episode is 0:26:54 long.

This episode was published on Aug 31, 2025.

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