Building your own AI English tutor starts with one simple step: a short interview that captures your goals, your level, and the topics you love. This class shows you how to generate a personal bio that your tutor (whether in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini) can use to personalize every future lesson. It is perfect for any English learner who wants practice that actually fits their life.

Why does your tutor need an interview first?

Before an AI can help you learn, it needs to know who you are. That is the whole point of this setup: you run a short interview so the tutor understands your motivation, your weak spots, and your interests.

The interview does two things. It asks you questions, and then it gives you a block of about five lines that you can copy and paste into any chat. That block becomes the foundation of your study buddy, the agent that accompanies you for the rest of the course.

What is the goal interview for an AI English tutor? It is a short set of questions that generates a personal bio summarizing your goals, English level, and favorite topics. You paste that bio into any AI chat so your tutor can personalize your lessons.

You are not locked into one tool. The output works in a plain chat exactly like the exercise from the previous class, and you can run it in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude depending on your preference.

How do you run the prompt in Claude or any AI?

The process is refreshingly simple. Copy the prompt from the resource section, open a new chat, and paste it in. Starting a new chat is free, so there is no reason not to.

The prompt itself comes in two parts, and it is available in both English and Spanish in the resources below. It opens by setting the tone: a warm, patient English tutor. That framing matters because it shapes how the AI talks to you throughout your learning.

About model choice, you have options depending on your budget:

• Opus (used here, more powerful, the "living dangerously" pick).
• Sonnet, a lighter choice if you are worried about costs.
• Haiku, which can handle this simple task with no issue.

After a transition like picking your model, the task is essentially just answering honestly and letting the AI do the rest.

What questions does the English tutor interview ask?

The interview walks you through a handful of questions designed to build a complete picture of you as a learner. Here is the real example answered during the class:

• Question one: what do you use English for? Answer: I want to get a better job.
• Question two: in which situations do you get stuck? Answer: I freeze or forget when speaking. I can read and write, but I am not fluent speaking.
• Question three: how much time can you practice? Answer: 15 minutes per day.
• Question four: do you know your English level? Answer: B1, based on the Platzi English Placement Test.
• Final question: what topics do you enjoy? Answer: travel, video games, Dungeons and Dragons, board games, technology, fantasy and sci-fi books.

That freezing or forgetting when speaking is something many students report, so if it sounds familiar, you are in good company. The interview even asks one extra follow-up question to go deeper when you mention something like "I freeze when speaking," giving the tutor more context to work with [01:43].

Why does the interview ask about topics I enjoy? Because learning sticks better when it is tied to what you love. If you enjoy cooking, football, or sci-fi, your tutor can build lessons and examples around those themes instead of generic content.

What is the final output of the interview?

Once you answer everything, the AI produces a very simple bio about who you are. That bio is the five-line block you will reuse to keep your tutor personalized across every future session.

What do I do with the bio my tutor generates? You paste it into your AI chat whenever you start a new learning session so the tutor remembers your goals, level, and interests without you explaining them again.

Your turn now. Use the prompts in the resource section, answer the questions honestly, and create your own personal bio. If you have not taken the Platzi English Placement Test yet, you will find it in the resources too, so you can confirm your level before you start.

What goals did you set for your English tutor? Share your bio in the comments and compare notes with other learners.