Build the language tutor that never runs out of patience.
Two skills for one. Your kid builds a real AI tutor for the language they’re learning — English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese, you name it — and then learns with it every day. They design its personality, teach it how to correct gently, load it with their actual school vocab, and practise speaking with it out loud. It’s the practice partner every language learner needs: endlessly patient, available at 9pm before the test, and built by the kid themselves — which is exactly why they’ll actually use it.
Part of the AI Coding Studio track.
Upcoming times and locations.
No scheduled class is open yet for this course.
A whole game — made with AI, end to end.
Every language learner needs more practice than any class or parent can give. This course turns that problem into an engineering project. Four skills, woven through all 6 weeks:
Language AI
How AI speaks dozens of languages, how it corrects, where it slips — and how to test your tutor so you can trust it.
Teaching Design
Your kid becomes the teacher-designer: levels, gentle corrections, spaced practice — real learning science, applied to their own tutor.
Speaking & Listening
Voice conversations with the tutor: speaking practice, listening drills and transcript checks — useful feedback without pretending speech recognition is a pronunciation exam.
AI Coding
AI coding from absolute zero: describe what you want, let the AI build it, read what it wrote, tweak it, test it. The same loop every week until it’s second nature — and a complete product at the end.
6 weeks, 6 things they can show.
Built for absolute beginners: week 1 starts from an empty project, each week adds one skill and one working feature, and by week 3 your kid is already practising with the tutor between classes.
Meet your tutor
Pick your language and your goal (school French? family Mandarin? Spanish from zero?). Design the tutor’s name and personality — patient? funny? a little strict? First conversation.
AI this week: AI helps craft the tutor’s character in a system prompt; you test-chat in your target language at your level.
A named tutor that chats with you in your language — at YOUR level.
Teach it how to teach
The week your kid becomes a teacher-designer: level calibration, corrections that encourage instead of embarrass, explaining in English (or Chinese) when you’re stuck.
AI this week: Prompt engineering for pedagogy — you write the teaching rules, then test them with deliberately wrong sentences.
A tutor that corrects you so gently you actually want more.
Your words, your world
Load YOUR content: this term’s school vocab list, words for talking to grandma, the food you actually eat. Plus the science of spaced practice.
AI this week: AI builds the vocab store and drill engine; you feed it your real lists and tune how often words come back.
A tutor drilling this week’s actual school vocabulary.
Speak to it
Voice mode: real spoken conversations, listening exercises, pronunciation feedback. The practice that classrooms never have time for.
AI this week: AI wires up speech-to-text and the tutor’s voice; you do your first full conversation out loud.
A spoken conversation with your tutor — and the replay to prove it.
Games & quests
Make practice something you choose to do: role-play quests (order tapas in Madrid, bargain at a Beijing market), streaks, mini-games.
AI this week: AI builds the quest scenarios you design; you playtest each other’s tutors in class.
A quest pack in your tutor — designed by you, tested by classmates.
Launch & the 21-day challenge
Polish the interface, launch at your own link, demo to the families — parents get to try stumping it. Then the real test: a 21-day practice streak.
AI this week: AI helps polish and deploy; AI generates your challenge tracker.
A live tutor at your own link — and day 1 of the 21-day family challenge.
Real skills, and a game with their name on it.
- ✓The AI-coding builder’s loop, learned from zero: describe → build → read → tweak → test
- ✓A working AI language tutor they engineered — and use daily
- ✓Prompt engineering for teaching: levels, corrections, scaffolding
- ✓Learning science they’ll keep: spaced practice, retrieval, speaking-first
- ✓Voice interfaces: speech in, speech out, transcript checking and consent-aware replay
- ✓Testing an AI for trust: finding and fixing its mistakes
- ✓A 21-day practice habit with a tool they built themselves
Format
Delivered in person as a hands-on workshop. 3–6 kids per cohort. 6 weekly sessions, ~90 min each. Works with any language your kid is learning.
Tools we use
Built in the Airbotix browser studio (nothing to install, kid-safe). Language models, speech and voice through our DeepRouter gateway with kid-safe defaults. The tutor deploys to a private family link.
6 sessions · A$60 per session
Free 15-min consult first · refundable if the cohort doesn’t fill.
Common questions.
Which languages does it work for?
Any major language — English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, German and more. Kids pick the language they’re actually learning at school, or the family language they’re growing up around.
We’re a heritage-language family — is this for us?
It’s one of our favourite uses. A kid who resists Saturday Chinese school will happily build a Mandarin tutor with grandma’s words in it — because it’s THEIR project. Building it requires using the language; using it daily is the habit every heritage family wants.
Can an AI tutor teach wrong things?
AI can slip, so week 2 is partly about exactly that: kids learn to test their tutor, catch mistakes and fix its instructions. For school languages we also anchor the tutor to the kid’s real class materials. It’s a practice partner, not a replacement for their teacher — and a kid who can audit an AI has learned something bigger than any one language.
Does my kid need coding experience?
None — this is designed as a first AI-coding course. Week 1 starts from an empty project, and the pace is deliberately gradual: one new step of the building loop each week, with the same small-group teacher support throughout. Kids finish having built a complete product from scratch.
Is it private?
Yes. The tutor lives at a private family link, conversations stay in your family account, and everything runs through our kid-safe gateway with strict content rules.
What if my kid misses a week?
Let us know as early as you can. We will check what they missed and confirm the catch-up option for that cohort.
Your kid’s first shipped game is 6 weeks away.
Book a free 15-min consult — we’ll check it’s the right fit and tell you when the next cohort starts.
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