An Egyptian Chinese teacher gives each AI tool its own job
Xiangning, who teaches Chinese in Egypt, uses DeepSeek, Doubao and ChatGPT for different tasks, and says the checking stays with her.
The short version
- Xiangning holds a doctorate from Beijing Language and Culture University and now teaches Chinese in her home country, Egypt.
- DeepSeek polishes her Chinese writing and helps her look up information.
- Doubao prepares lessons, builds slides, writes questions and adjusts difficulty to each student's level.
- ChatGPT handles Chinese-Arabic translation, where she compares phrasings and checks the feel of the language.
- Her rule: AI can save time but cannot replace a teacher, so she checks and judges the output herself.
Why it matters
Most people use one assistant for everything. Her setup shows another approach: pick a tool for each job and keep your own judgment as the final step. It also shows how AI use is spreading across borders and languages in ordinary workplaces.
One teacher, three assistants
As Phoenix New Media (ifeng.com) reported, Xiangning is an Egyptian woman who studied for a doctorate in teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Beijing Language and Culture University. She now teaches Chinese back in her hometown. She speaks fluent Chinese and jokingly calls herself an "old Beijinger".
Her daily routine involves three different AI tools, each with a separate role.
Who does what
- DeepSeek polishes her Chinese writing and helps her look things up.
- Doubao, a Chinese chatbot app, helps with lesson prep. It makes slides, writes exercise questions and can adjust their difficulty to a student's level.
- ChatGPT is her tool for translating between Chinese and Arabic. She uses it to compare ways of saying something and to test how natural a sentence sounds.
The split matters. Each tool is matched to a task, instead of one chatbot being asked to do everything.
The part AI does not do
Despite how much she uses these tools, Xiangning is firm that AI is only an assistant. It saves time, but it cannot stand in for the teacher. In the end she has to check the output and make the call herself.
Asked whether AI really raises efficiency, she answered, in the article's words, "Yes, but don't let your brain clock out."
What to take from it
This is a light profile, not a study. It offers no measurements of time saved or student results, so treat it as one person's working habits, not proof of what AI does for teaching.
Still, the habit is easy to copy. Match a tool to each repeated task, and treat every output as a draft that you must review.
What to watch
- Whether the full profile gives any detail on how her students respond to AI-prepared lessons.
- How access and privacy terms differ by country for tools like DeepSeek, Doubao and ChatGPT.
Try it
List the three tasks you repeat most at work. Try a different assistant on each for a week and keep the one that leaves you the least rework to fix.
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