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 Hello everyone, as by the title, this is likely to be my last post here. I want to talk about how this course has affected my perspective in language teaching. The most obvious one is the whole blogging period, where i had the chance to write down my thoughts while completing the assignments. This made me much more comfortable, as for the first time in years, i was not forced to write down something with 50 different formal standards, like in essays or articles. This made me realize that i actually really enjoy writing down my thoughts, as i can express myself much more freely compared to classroom talking. Throughout the course, we did many things that i did not even think of doing before, podcasts, blogs, film reviews... These didn't really feel like assignments when doing them, they were not stressful or boring, in fact i actually enjoyed every single assignment i had for this course which is a first for me in my whole education life. I especially enjoyed the assignments where ...

 Hi everyone! As it is clear from the title, we are looking at two obvious facts: The fact that this post is going to be about a chatbot and this will be the last assignment i will be posting here. For this assignment, what we had to do was basically to talk to a chatbot that is acting like a historical or a known person, and we would ask 10 questions to them. After being done with the conversation, we had to write a report and ask AI to improve our report (yes, we are using AI twice in one assignment). I used the chatbots and feedback tools from Magic School as suggested by my instructor. I asked the bot to be Mikhail Tal, the very reason why I have been playing chess for all these years now. I always found his play style to be very interesting and unorthodox, which caught my attention instantly. Having a discussion with a bot that acted like him felt very odd at first, but after seeing that the bot was providing very accurate answers, I actually enjoyed the dialogue we had. I can...