Language Learning Tech News & Updates: October 2, 2026

Last updated: October 2, 2026 YouTube announced real-time dubbing for livestreams, Korean universities reported new AI rules and a return to written exams, Google added voice conversations and lecture recording to Gemini Notebook, and MIT’s committee report on AI in teaching drew wide coverage. One Kahoot release from early September that earlier roundups missed is … Read more

Duolingo’s AI-First Reversal and the End of Duolingo for Schools

Published July 2026. Duolingo spent the past year running an experiment in how far a consumer app can be pushed toward AI-driven efficiency before its own users and its own business model push back. In April 2025, the company announced it was going “AI-first.” A year later, that strategy had unwound in two ways: AI … Read more

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An AI Prompt to Create English Study Group Materials

Republished from:  https://englishwithjeff.com/the-prompt-i-use-to-create-english-study-group-materials/ Below is the prompt I’ve been using to create study group materials for my students and links to some of the materials that have been produced.  You can also see links to tools that can be used to create text-to-speech audio recordings and assess AI Prompt for creating Study Group Materials Feel … Read more

AI Practice Prompts for TOEIC and IELTS Study

Republished from : https://englishwithjeff.com/ai-practice-prompts-toeic-ielts-study/ The prompts listed here are designed to help students prepare for standardized English Assessment Exams like TOEIC and IELTS.  The prompts will work, to varying degrees of success, with all the sites listed below.   More AI study prompts for various purposes can be found here.    ChatGPT  Gemini  Copilot  DeepSeek  Claude  … Read more