The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3IrpVNC My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com My chat with Luca on his channel: ruclips.net/video/9bf2kRSs1P4/видео.html Have you tried chatGPT?
Luca is a wonderful polyglot, helpful, modest, friendly and a great person to talk to. We also did an interview for his channel where we talk about the role of deliberate practice in language learning. Check it out. ruclips.net/video/9bf2kRSs1P4/видео.html
The real power of GPT is having a good prompt. With a good prompt you can get amazing answers from GPT. I like reading books in Korean, and sometimes I find words or phrases that I don't quite understand and need more examples that use said phrase or word. So I created a prompt where you can add the word/phrase, and then add the sentence(s) that came with the word/phrase that you spotted. Here is my prompt: Pretend you are the author who wrote the passage that I provided. Use the word (insert word here) in five sample sentences in both English and Korean in a similar manner to the writing style of the passage: (insert passage)
I can't tell you how happy I am I found Steve, Luca, and Krashen. I've been interested in languages all my life but have never learned one to fluency. I am now using the principles they teach and I am FLYING through Spanish and having a blast doing it. I'm obsessed with LingQ and can't wait to read my books and podcasts every day on LingQ after the kids go to bed.
I use ChatGTP to explore interesting topics in target language. I tell it to assume the role of an expert in a particular topic, take care to use the technical vocabulary they would use in real life, and answer all my questions in target language only. This helps me immensely with staying engaged while getting exposed to the vocabulary I need in specific fields.
I have a better idea I think- why not find article on topic in TL, read it engage etc. Then knowing tha t is correct put it into GPT and ask it to generate questions for you? I'm gonna try it- so thanks for your initial statement!
One cannot tell that one is not talking to a real person. AI means that one does not have to go to a country to speak a language. I have a friend's list on Whatsapp App. I used to have to talk to them. Once they got tired that was the end of the conversation. AI does not get tired. It does not get mad when you ask a question. It does not yell into the phone "I do not know what a God damn past participle is and I do not care to know. Do you understand me or not? If not I am hanging up the phone."
Some examples of what I have used it for: Create a story in B2 Spanish in 500 words. Create a sequel to the story with a plot twist. Correct my written errors. Rewrite X news article (pasted from the web) in B2 Spanish. Used a desktop voice plug in to have spoken conversations with a very natural sounding voice.
I think that the main benefit of using ChatGPT for language learning is that you can have a conversation with it. You can simply talk to it in your target language, or you can even talk to it in your native language and tell it to respond in your target language and it will. I think it would be amazing for LingQ to have a “conversation” function, where you could talk to a ChatGPT like bot, and then create LingQs from your conversation.
The importance of languages lies not in their linguistic constructs per se, but in the cultures they represent. Language serves as a means of communication and expression of cultural values, beliefs, and practices that are integral to human societies. By studying languages, we gain insight into the complexities and nuances of diverse cultural systems, allowing us to better understand the social and psychological underpinnings of human behavior. Furthermore, a deep appreciation of the cultures that languages represent is crucial for promoting cross-cultural understanding and cooperation, facilitating peaceful coexistence in our globalized world. Therefore, the study of languages is not only an academic pursuit, but also a vital component of building a more interconnected and harmonious human society.
Fantastic comment! Also the study of languages can help people connect with their own ancestry. Especially for Americans. Learning Norwegian has been surprisingly soulful. I loved learning the other languages I speak, but Norwegian has been uniquely wonderful. Despite not growing up there or with the language I can't help but feel the language is apart of my soul in some way. It's like a discovery of the Scandinavian part of my soul or something. 🇧🇻💪
This is the humanistic case for studying language that’s too often forgotten. It’s depressing that a lot of people just see language learning as some skill to put on their CV.
None, pure anthrophic phycobable. Here is why: You're correct! Dogs have an incredible sense of smell that allows them to identify individual dogs down to the cellular level. They achieve this through several fascinating mechanisms: Superpowered Olfactory System: More Scent Receptors: Compared to humans, dogs have about 220 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to our measly 5 million. This vast repertoire allows them to detect and differentiate a wider range of scents, including subtle variations unique to each dog. Vomeronasal Organ: This specialized organ, located near the roof of the mouth, processes pheromones, chemical signals that convey information about an individual's health, reproductive status, and even emotional state. Acute Sense of Smell: Dogs can not only detect faint odors but also track and analyze them incredibly precisely. Imagine reading a complex novel just by inhaling the paper! Filtering Out Undesired Scents: While sniffing another dog's rear end provides valuable information, fecal matter isn't part of the intended message. Here's how dogs manage to isolate the relevant scents: Selective Attention: Just like we can focus on a specific conversation in a noisy room, dogs can prioritize specific components of an odor mixture. Their brains focus on the pheromones and other chemical signals embedded within the overall scent, effectively tuning out the fecal component. Odor Localization: Dogs can pinpoint the source of different odors within a complex scent mixture. By sniffing strategically, they can focus on the anal glands and other scent-producing areas, excluding the surrounding fur and fecal matter. Prior Experience: Over time, dogs learn to associate specific scents with specific meanings. They recognize that the fecal component isn't relevant to understanding another dog's identity or mood, allowing them to filter it out subconsciously. So, yes, while smelling another dog's rear end seems strange, it's a crucial social interaction for dogs. Their amazing sense of smell, combined with their ability to filter out irrelevant information, allows them to gather a wealth of information about their canine companions, laying the foundation for social interactions and communication Ok. All life forms communicate. But lives communicate in different ways. Wolves and Dogs communicate the same way but they do different socially. Wolves are peridomestic dogs are domestic. Humans communicate as dogs and wolves do. But we do not have enough ofactory glands to tell one individual from another. We have to do that in a different way. The uniqueness of each human voice stems from a complex interplay of anatomical factors and learned behaviors. Here's a breakdown of the key contributors: Vocal anatomy: The size, shape, and elasticity of your vocal cords, along with the dimensions of your vocal tract (including your mouth, nose, and throat cavities), influence the fundamental pitch and resonance of your voice. These anatomical features are unique to each individual. Learned behaviors: The way you use your voice, including your speaking habits, pitch variations, and emotional inflections, is shaped by your cultural background, social interactions, and personal experiences. This adds another layer of individuality to your voice. Together, these elements create a vocal signature so distinct that even identical twins can be identified by their voices alone. The uniqueness of human faces is a result of a complex interplay between genetics and environmental factors. Here's a breakdown of the key contributors: Genetics: Our genes determine the basic blueprint of our facial features, including bone structure, muscle placement, and skin tone. However, genes don't provide a fixed recipe; they allow for variations, making each individual's combination unique. Environmental factors: From the womb to adulthood, various environmental factors like prenatal conditions, diet, and even posture can subtly influence facial development, adding to the individuality we see. Random chance: During embryonic development, even minor random variations in cell division can contribute to facial uniqueness. The combined effect of these factors creates a vast number of possible facial configurations, making it highly unlikely for any two individuals to have exactly the same face. It's an intriguing thought experiment to consider how humans would fare without the ability to distinguish each other visually. While facial recognition plays a significant role in social interactions and identity formation, it's not the only factor that shapes our relationships and communities. Here are some potential challenges and adaptations if humans couldn't tell each other apart: Challenges: Social recognition: Recognizing individuals and forming relationships would be significantly more difficult. We rely on facial cues for nonverbal communication and emotional expression. Personal identity: Our sense of self is partly shaped by how others perceive us. Without visual differentiation, self-identity and expression could be impacted. Social organization: Daily activities and social structures might require major adaptations. Adaptations: Heightened reliance on other senses: Hearing, touch, and smell could become more important for recognizing and interacting with others. Increased use of symbolic markers: Clothing, hairstyles, and other visual markers could take on greater significance for individual and group identification. Shift in social dynamics: Communication and social interactions might emphasize shared experiences, values, and interests rather than individual appearances. Ultimately, whether humans could "do well" without visual recognition is subjective and depends on how well we adapt to the challenges and develop alternative means of social connection and identification. Therefore languages emerge because we all sound and look different because we cannot tell each other one from another as, E.G. dogs do. Even if everyone sounded identical, communication would face challenges: Speaker identification: Recognizing who's speaking in group conversations or when voices overlap would be difficult. Emotional nuance: Tone and pitch convey emotions. Without them, understanding intent and sarcasm would be trickier. Nonverbal cues: Visual expressions and gestures complement speech. Their absence could lead to misunderstandings. Social cohesion: Shared accents and dialects foster group identity. Uniformity might weaken group bonds. Personal expression: Vocal variety allows individuality. Monotony could hinder self-expression and creativity. Despite these hurdles, humans would likely adapt through: Emphasis on words: Precise language and enunciation would gain importance. Alternative cues: Touch, smell, and posture might take on new significance in communication. Symbolic communication: Clothing, hairstyles, and mannerisms could become identity markers. Ultimately, communication would evolve, but human connection and expression would likely face challenges in a world without vocal variety. We may not choose language, custom, habits, traditional, and more they maybe what we have to use given what we are. Humans possess an innate capacity for language acquisition, but the specific languages we use are learned through social interaction and cultural experiences. While Chomsky's theory of universal grammar proposes innate linguistic principles, it's a complex concept with various interpretations and ongoing debate.
Ok. chatGPT and Google Gemini you say the said one must use the personal pronoun every time one uses a conjugated form of a verb. Ok. That is not correct. However AI has to make an assumption. In French and English the pronoun must accompany the conjugated verb. So if French, English, and German are the languages the major developers of chatGPT use like the human that started it it will make a similar assumption. That is a good thing! That tells us that chatGPT and Google Gemini are living, breathing systems that not only teach but also learn. When chatGPT and Google Gemini say something that is not correct I tell them via examples. The outcome has always been thank you. I did not originally understand that. Those systems have to learn from us. It is not a one way street. I asked Google Gemini to correct what I wrote above. This was the response: "You're right that it's not always necessary to use a personal pronoun with every conjugated verb. While languages like French and English often require them, others like Spanish or Italian can omit them in certain contexts. It's true that language models like ChatGPT and I are constantly learning and evolving, and your feedback helps us improve our understanding. Keep providing examples and corrections, as it helps us become more accurate and informative.' Back in the old days Google Translator asked you, me, and others who it knew were reliable language users to join with the application. Many times we had to write in the best translation. Most people could not write in the best translation. I would watch people using Google Translator in conversations and laugh. The people in the conversation would ask "what is so funny?" Unlike what some think Google Gemini and ChatGPT work best when the user knows the language the AI is speaking. AI is like talking to a Russian. One gets the most out of it when one can hear, listen and speak Russian. But there is no human being that can match AI. It is smarter, knows more, learns faster, does not have an agenda. Right now there is nothing that a human being can teach that it cannot teach better. It cannot teach you how to hit a baseball yet but in less than six months there will be muscle tissued cybernetic beings that will be the best baseball players in the history of the game. We will have a cybernetic baseball league. That will mean that there will be no human professional baseball players. Just as there will be no more human language teachers. And
Absolutely agree. And not just that, languages by themselves and through cultures they encode physically shape you. As in, speakers of Russian are twice as fast at telling apart different shades of blue. Speakers of different Asian languages subconsciously pay a lot more attention to the background of one’s experience, and so on and so forth
Language learning is a process of self-training and improvement. With chatGPT, it is equivalent to having a 24-hour online linguistics tutor who can chat with you and help you correct mistakes. When the voice synthesis is more real and natural, the voice communication with chatGPT can also be regarded as a real person dialogue. chatGPT and subsequent upgraded versions are a powerful language learning assistant. We don't need to throw away our existing language learning methods, but with chatGPT we will have more choices, and learning languages will have more fun and imagination.
@@abhinavchauhan7864 ChatGPT isn't multimodal for the public yet, but this young man figured out how to do it using plug-ins. ruclips.net/video/F7vmOKXkB0U/видео.html
Lucca finished the talk with a flourish. "Screen devour your time and books feed your mind." I have the exact sensation! Books make the brain work while screens, despite the fact they can be really helpful, the applications lock your mind in, offers gamefication and there is release of dopamine, eventually, making us spend time absentmindedly.
I tested chatGPT out yesterday, asked it to explain a Japanese verb that I was struggling to understand with example sentences showing it used in context. It's answer was honestly quite perfect and really helped me a lot. Will definitely be testing out some more in the future.
There are already text to voice extension for ChatGPT. One can practice conversations directly with it. I would hope to see a more open minded discussion to help the viewers to embrace and utilize these new technologies and tools.
This feels a lot like a grandpa preparing his son to go even further than he did and teaching him all he learned so far. I love this conversation, you are both huge inspirations and encouragement to me. God bless you.
You can ask Chat GPT to write stories in various languages at a given CEFR level. For example, I asked it to write 150 word story in Chinese at a CEFR A1. Once I get the story, I load it into LINGQ as a lesson. Works perfectly! Highly effective!
I'm learning Tetum Praça, the lingua franca of East Timor. There aren't many resources available for it. But amazingly ChatGPT knows it. You can have conversations in the language. Or you can ask it about any topic, or ask it to write stories, and to then translate the responses into Tetun. I get it to write stuff in English and then to translate into Portuguese and Tetun. I read all three versions and can understand 95% of the Tetum. Perhaps 40% of my comprehension of the Tetun comes from the context and cognate vocabulary provided by the first two versions.
Here is an example of learning about subtle German words from CHAT GPT. (I had wanted to discuss how my German got much better the last few years with the rich resources available of podcasts and YT videos. This led the options for AVAILABILITY, and: What is the difference between Verfügbarkeit and Erhältlichkeit? The difference seemed realistic to me, and 3 native speakers said this was good (one or two said it was better than they could explain !!). ## CHATGPT: --In general, both "Verfügbarkeit" and "Erhältlichkeit" can be translated as "availability" in English. However, there is a subtle difference between the two words in German. --"Verfügbarkeit" implies that something is available or ready to use, while "Erhältlichkeit" emphasizes that something can be obtained or acquired. In other words, "Verfügbarkeit" refers to the state of something being ready for use, while "Erhältlichkeit" refers to the possibility of obtaining something. --For example, if we say that a product is "verfügbar", it means that it is ready to use or can be used immediately. On the other hand, if we say that a product is "erhältlich", it means that it can be obtained or purchased, but it may not be immediately available or ready to use. --In the context of the original sentence, "Verfügbarkeit" emphasizes that there were many podcasts and RUclips channels that were readily available for use during the pandemic, while "Erhältlichkeit" would emphasize that these resources were obtainable or accessible during the pandemic
I think it's important to bring it into discussion, I love the way you two run your channels giving tips and stuff. This video is another treasure. Congrats.
I asked ChatGPT who said: screens devour …… and it wrote: The quote "Screens devour your time while books feed your mind" is often attributed to an unknown author or source. It has become a popular saying among those who advocate for reading as a way to improve one's knowledge and well-being, while cautioning against spending too much time on screens, which can be a source of distraction and time-wasting. Thanks a lot to Mr. Steve and Mr. Luca. You Are motivating in a good manner
Soon you will be able to actually chat with a bot. For some that will be a real game changer. Conversing with a person while making 2 or 3 mistakes per sentence makes me nervous. I believe there are many who would appreciate a nonjudgmental bot for beginning conversations.
My wife and I just saw the play English this past weekend. It was a moving 1.5 hours devoted to all the meanings of language in our lives. Can't recommend it highly enough. AI can never replace language and it's rich expressiveness, a way of forming relationships, and emotions in our human culture.
I've only been learning a second language for 4 years, and I can't fathom how difficult it must have been for language learners to learn another language prior to the internet and digital resources. It would be interesting to know whether technology has resulted in more people becoming multi-lingual, or whether it's just resulted in people becoming better in their non-native languages.
I don't know if that make a difference, but back in the day, people when learning a second language had fewer resources than now and that I think played a big role into their capacity of remembering things and stuff. Internet is a nice revolution but sometimes people just get lazy because they think that Internet will solve all their problems and when learning a language the rate of attention into it can vary depending of how addicted to internet you are. But I'm not saying this is bad cause it changed the world in a good way but it has drawbacks.
I just used this prompt... and it worked GREAT: Me: You are to play the role of my good natured German instructor. You are to follow two rules: Rule 1 - You will always correct my German if I make an error and explain what I said wrong. Rule 2 - You will always reply first in German then second in English. If you understand, then please repeat these two rules while applying both rules. ChatGPT: Ja, ich verstehe. Regel eins besagt, dass ich immer Ihren deutschen Fehler korrigiere und erkläre, was Sie falsch gesagt haben. Regel zwei besagt, dass ich immer zuerst auf Deutsch antworte und dann auf Englisch. Wenn Sie möchten, können Sie beginnen. Yes, I understand. Rule one states that I will always correct your German errors and explain what you said wrong. Rule two states that I will always reply first in German and then in English. If you'd like, you can start.
If there were apps that woild automatically dual subtitle, or even pause the original recording, and redupe what was said in the previous recording into another language, it would be legendary. The patterns would be noticed so quickly.
My favorite use-case for chatGPT right now is that I can ask why a specific word is used in a sentence. I can also ask chatGPT how a sentence changes if I use a different word in it's place.
I found it very useful for generating specific vocabulary. For instance, I asked it to provide a list of words pertaining to yoga, cooking, the difference in vocabulary between Quebec and France. Within 5 seconds it presented lists for each category. I also requested to have a dialogue between me and ChatAI regarding traveling in Europe and using a C1 level. I asked for corrections if I made mistakes. I like this! However, I noticed that a few quirks in grammar. I tried to use the personal infinitive in Portuguese and it said I should be using the subjunctive when I knew I was correct. I think you can have fun with this tool. I am surprised that Steve and his friend were not really enthusiastic by it but to each his own.
Duolingo got me "involved" I went from struggling along with Russian to cruising on duo and thoroughly enjoying Russian, Italian, Greek, French and German. Came first in my league last week. So proud of myself. Ty.
I would not be able to consider studying Hungarian without the internet but it's still a struggle to find CI content with embedded subtitles. To wit, there are still challenges which are language specific even with technological advances
Quazel is an interesting tool. I just downloaded the app. I don’t see why the teachers in this video haven’t recognized the value of chat ai. It’s like having a language partner at your disposal who has infinite patience and will talk about anything you want in your target language.
I've been using it to prepare graded reading in TW Mandarin, Japanese, and Mexican and Puerto Rican vernacular Spanish. I'm also looking at using the OpenAI API directly to grade down (and elaborate on) more advanced material.
Just discovered this awesome tool using chatgpt for learning Arabic. If you can make a video about it in case you find the tool interesting. I typed into chatgpt the below and it generated 100s of sentences I could learn from. There were some minor mistakes but I think it is ok. Can you prepare a cloze test in the following format: قَرَأَ محمدُ ال_______ بِتَمْهِيدٍ، ثُمَّ _______ الْكِتَابَ كُلَّهُ. أ- بابَ / قرأَ ب- كِتابَ / رَفَعَ ج- مَدْرَسَةَ / أكْمَلَ د- قَلَمَ / نَظَرَ To complete the passage, choose the appropriate word from the options above to fill in the blanks. The correct answers are "كِتابَ" and "أكْمَلَ", so the completed passage would read: "قَرَأَ محمدُ الكِتابَ بِتَمْهِيدٍ، ثُمَّ أكْمَلَ الْكِتَابَ كُلَّهُ." Translation: "Mohammed read the book with an introduction, then he completed the entire book."
ChatGPT is decent enough for explaining grammar and conjunctions. Have it make example sentences for words you’re learning. Take a word list and tell it to use them all in a story. Or copy paste a story from LingQ and tell it to rewrite the story using most of the same words.
I asked it for example sentences in French, and it made so many obvious mistakes. I asked "why" and it produced made up language rules to justify its mistakes. Scary. Wondering whether later versions will be better. At its current state, I have a hard time trusting any of its output.
@@Ph34rNoB33r yeah. It’s a large language model program, but the problem I think most of its training input was English. I’ve had the same issues, I tell native speakers the sentences and they definitely tell me there’s awkward phrasing sometimes.
I think chatGPT would assist people bridge language barriers. And also image generators in llet's say trying to show people what you mean by justs generating an image. And also, chat bots could also learn multiple languages and have a conversation for practice.
The more time I spend learning languages and watching Steve's videos the more I feel like I should find a way to work with him hahaha it's good to see "o brilho no olho".
I was looking forward to your attitude towards GPT chat and glad to hear your thoughts are identical to what I think about the new device. There should be no fear at all that modern devices rob people of their jobs, they create new jobs. Regarding language learning I always recommend my students to use all available tools. Whether you learn a language using a book, or a tape, or radio, or video, or a vlog, or a translator , or IK, finally you speak or communicate in writing to a human being.
Personally, I think ChatGPT is great at recommending very specific content, like swedish gaming youtubers that are not playing Minecraft or Turkish dramas that are more action-based. Things like that can be a lot more useful than a verb conjugation you can google in 3 seconds anyway.
I have been onto Lingq app but can't find the Thai language. Is it on there and I just can't find it? Hoping you can help. I love your talks and have already learned much. We are going to Thailand in July with a view to moving from Australia. Thank you
ChatGPT-4 makes much(!) less mistakes etc. (I wouldn’t want to go back to version 3, but the availability of version 4 is really poor at the moment...) I think I will try to use it for a normal and a literal translations and grammar questions for „my own learning material“ to speed up the process, so that I can spend more time on listening etc. and less time searching for possible explanations or the best translation of a word, because ChatGPT understands context. (I create my own material by playing God of War on PS5 in Japanese with Japanese subtitles and upload the video on my private RUclips channel after cutting it. Then I usually sit down, write the text in a document and try to figure everything out, which usually takes a very long time... My goal is usually to have a translation below every unknown word and a good understanding of the meaning of the sentence, before I start listening.) Here is a video to get more inspiration on how to use it for language learning: ruclips.net/video/sXOAanKbXAQ/видео.html
I use duolingo and I have been hoping they include a conversational model of gaming into it, which asks us questions and we buy things from shops and interact with characters and move ahead the level, coz reading sentences and third person narration is not that useful in developing language.
Is there any updates on Conversational AI ? This video is 7 months old and I've heard about Conversational AI and I really would like to know how to get it. Please help me if you can.
Flashcards/SRS/ANKI is testing. Match pairs/duolingo is testing. Testing is not learning. Testing comes AFTER you learn. Dopamine/shmopamine. If you want that, kill something in a video game.
AIs could be of use in language learning through visualization. Imagine utilizing Bluewillow AI to generate images of a certain culture to help better understand the people and the language.
I think if chat gpt can be used to have conversations, and it can respond like a native speaker, and can understand how to respond in ways useful to language learning, this could possibly become the single greatest advance to language learning ever. If ai software can do this same thing with speech, respond like a native speaker and teach the language.. that's game over for language teachers
Imagine an infinitely patient teacher accessible twenty four seven, with a totally complete vocab and flawless grammar, that knows every slang, that can emulate every type of accent...that's where this is heading, this will be the end of language teachers
ChatGPT is much better at translating than Google Translate or Deepl. I use it regularly to translate from Japanese and it's very helpful. I can explain the context of the sentence (for better translation) or ask for details (words, grammar, etc.) about what has been translated. I like it so much that I've created an iOS shortcut to generate translations (via the OpenAI API) and I look forward to the day when it's integrated into LingQ, hopefully not too far away!
Anki, or any flashcards software, isn't necessarily bad. What makes them not all that efficient is the lack of knowing what to do besides these "reviews," so you'll pick up the language quicker. So, if combined with real exposure to the language, it can be proven a great tool for your language learning journey.
I use chat gpt everyday to improve my written french. And it's just amazing. If you combine it with tools like google translation or natural reader for listening and speaking practice, you will improve very fast. Duo Lingo and other methods are a joke compared to what chat gpt can do for you in terms of language learning. Of course you need to know how to use it. Sorry for the bad English. I'm brazilian and I haven't used chat gpt for improving my English yet, lol.
I've been using Google translate for 3 years or 4 years not sure, Google translate might be wrong in translating certain sentences, but it's better that nothing, agreed, i use Google stranslate to translate words that i don't know in English, it's quite useful for me.😁
Language instructors should learn all the affordances of these tech tools and use them appropriately in the classroom. 90% of students cannot learn by themselves, they need someone to direct them (ZPD) at least at their earlier phases of their learning.
Anyone can explain to me why the sentence " till there 'was' you, is correct instead of "till there 'were' you"? Thank you! The same : I didn't think was you. And not " were you. Thank you so much.
@onyenswisdom The so-called past subjunctive (also called the were-subjunctive) is used in clauses of hypothetical condition. It differs from the past indicative of be only in the first and third person singular, which popularly replace it. The reference is to present (or future) time, e.g. If I were you, I’d own up (If I was you . . .) If only my grandfather were alive today (If only my grandfather was . . .) If she were to come tomorrow ... (If she was to . . .) it's free for you m-o-t-h-er---- f----u---c--k--e--r!!!
Lots of great ideas here about how to use (or not use) the current generation of AI language models. I got distracted, though, by the discussion of flash cards. My experience has been that a handful of high-frequency words, often those that describe abstract relationships, really don’t stick well with lots of reading even though I see them (and look them up) all the time. I have found targeted flash card practice really helpful at making these words stick in my memory. In a typical day, I might have one to two hours of reading and listening in my TL and five to ten minutes of flash card review of just those frequent words that haven’t stuck for me. But, I find that small amount of time is disproportionate in improving both my listening and reading comprehension. (I note that this time expenditure is consistent with Steve’s five to ten percent suggestion, and I find it’s plenty to make a difference.)
If Chat GDP were a little better at Korean and could lookup words, give examples, and generate content I would absolutely use it and I would use it a lot for my learning. Graded readers are too practical, politically correct, and boring but if the AI could think outside of a teacher’s or textbook publisher’s box and write stuff that’s at least weird it could be great.
In my experience it is not accurate enough to be relied on - like 80-90%. Like Steve's example where it got one out of 10 wrong. And it is less accurate with the less common languages. If it I use it 5 times, i'll find makes 2-3 errors. In 15 minutes of use, it will mess up at least 2 times. I asked it to create multiple choice questions out of German passage about the Chinese response to the US dealing with the balloon incident. 3 questions were good, but one said that the US was trying to get attention for domestic issues, when China said the US was trying to distract (abzulenken) from domestic issues. A lot of people are saying it is going to destroy traditional language learning - make teachers obsolete etc. Actually, I think the best use right now is for teachers to generate content like reading material, quizzes and then correct all the little mistakes it makes. I don't think GPT will actually get that much better for language learning use cases because OpenAI is not really training it for that. It wants it to be kinda of a google replacement - that is where the money is. Other companies will use the base model to train for specific languages and uses cases. I doubt those models will be available like ChatGPT is now. ChatGPT is as good as it is because OpenAI spent a ton on human annotation. That is how it will make progress. It was trained with a Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback method, not on just a bunch of text.
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The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3IrpVNC
My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com
My chat with Luca on his channel: ruclips.net/video/9bf2kRSs1P4/видео.html
Have you tried chatGPT?
Luca is a wonderful polyglot, helpful, modest, friendly and a great person to talk to. We also did an interview for his channel where we talk about the role of deliberate practice in language learning. Check it out. ruclips.net/video/9bf2kRSs1P4/видео.html
Thanks for the kind words Steve! As always, it was a great pleasure to talk to you. Keep rocking 🚀and shining 🌞
The real power of GPT is having a good prompt. With a good prompt you can get amazing answers from GPT. I like reading books in Korean, and sometimes I find words or phrases that I don't quite understand and need more examples that use said phrase or word. So I created a prompt where you can add the word/phrase, and then add the sentence(s) that came with the word/phrase that you spotted. Here is my prompt:
Pretend you are the author who wrote the passage that I provided. Use the word (insert word here) in five sample sentences in both English and Korean in a similar manner to the writing style of the passage: (insert passage)
Very useful prompt
Can you explain? I didn't quite understand
Hello von Thailand,
I'm not sure that I understand what makes good promote. Please help with some examples thx 😢
I can't tell you how happy I am I found Steve, Luca, and Krashen. I've been interested in languages all my life but have never learned one to fluency. I am now using the principles they teach and I am FLYING through Spanish and having a blast doing it. I'm obsessed with LingQ and can't wait to read my books and podcasts every day on LingQ after the kids go to bed.
I use ChatGTP to explore interesting topics in target language. I tell it to assume the role of an expert in a particular topic, take care to use the technical vocabulary they would use in real life, and answer all my questions in target language only. This helps me immensely with staying engaged while getting exposed to the vocabulary I need in specific fields.
I have a better idea I think- why not find article on topic in TL, read it engage etc. Then knowing tha t is correct put it into GPT and ask it to generate questions for you? I'm gonna try it- so thanks for your initial statement!
One cannot tell that one is not talking to a real person.
AI means that one does not have to go to a country to speak a language.
I have a friend's list on Whatsapp App. I used to have to talk to them.
Once they got tired that was the end of the conversation. AI does not get tired. It does not get mad when you ask a question.
It does not yell into the phone "I do not know what a God damn past participle is and I do not care to know. Do you understand me or not? If not I am hanging up the phone."
Some examples of what I have used it for:
Create a story in B2 Spanish in 500 words.
Create a sequel to the story with a plot twist.
Correct my written errors.
Rewrite X news article (pasted from the web) in B2 Spanish.
Used a desktop voice plug in to have spoken conversations with a very natural sounding voice.
What’s the voice plug in?
@@cobracommander8133 It's a Chrome plug in - Voice Control for ChatGPT.
I think that the main benefit of using ChatGPT for language learning is that you can have a conversation with it. You can simply talk to it in your target language, or you can even talk to it in your native language and tell it to respond in your target language and it will.
I think it would be amazing for LingQ to have a “conversation” function, where you could talk to a ChatGPT like bot, and then create LingQs from your conversation.
The importance of languages lies not in their linguistic constructs per se, but in the cultures they represent. Language serves as a means of communication and expression of cultural values, beliefs, and practices that are integral to human societies. By studying languages, we gain insight into the complexities and nuances of diverse cultural systems, allowing us to better understand the social and psychological underpinnings of human behavior. Furthermore, a deep appreciation of the cultures that languages represent is crucial for promoting cross-cultural understanding and cooperation, facilitating peaceful coexistence in our globalized world. Therefore, the study of languages is not only an academic pursuit, but also a vital component of building a more interconnected and harmonious human society.
Fantastic comment! Also the study of languages can help people connect with their own ancestry. Especially for Americans. Learning Norwegian has been surprisingly soulful. I loved learning the other languages I speak, but Norwegian has been uniquely wonderful. Despite not growing up there or with the language I can't help but feel the language is apart of my soul in some way. It's like a discovery of the Scandinavian part of my soul or something. 🇧🇻💪
This is the humanistic case for studying language that’s too often forgotten. It’s depressing that a lot of people just see language learning as some skill to put on their CV.
None, pure anthrophic phycobable. Here is why:
You're correct! Dogs have an incredible sense of smell that allows them to identify individual dogs down to the cellular level. They achieve this through several fascinating mechanisms:
Superpowered Olfactory System:
More Scent Receptors: Compared to humans, dogs have about 220 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to our measly 5 million. This vast repertoire allows them to detect and differentiate a wider range of scents, including subtle variations unique to each dog.
Vomeronasal Organ: This specialized organ, located near the roof of the mouth, processes pheromones, chemical signals that convey information about an individual's health, reproductive status, and even emotional state.
Acute Sense of Smell: Dogs can not only detect faint odors but also track and analyze them incredibly precisely. Imagine reading a complex novel just by inhaling the paper!
Filtering Out Undesired Scents:
While sniffing another dog's rear end provides valuable information, fecal matter isn't part of the intended message. Here's how dogs manage to isolate the relevant scents:
Selective Attention: Just like we can focus on a specific conversation in a noisy room, dogs can prioritize specific components of an odor mixture. Their brains focus on the pheromones and other chemical signals embedded within the overall scent, effectively tuning out the fecal component.
Odor Localization: Dogs can pinpoint the source of different odors within a complex scent mixture. By sniffing strategically, they can focus on the anal glands and other scent-producing areas, excluding the surrounding fur and fecal matter.
Prior Experience: Over time, dogs learn to associate specific scents with specific meanings. They recognize that the fecal component isn't relevant to understanding another dog's identity or mood, allowing them to filter it out subconsciously.
So, yes, while smelling another dog's rear end seems strange, it's a crucial social interaction for dogs. Their amazing sense of smell, combined with their ability to filter out irrelevant information, allows them to gather a wealth of information about their canine companions, laying the foundation for social interactions and communication
Ok. All life forms communicate. But lives communicate in different ways.
Wolves and Dogs communicate the same way but they do different socially. Wolves are peridomestic dogs are domestic.
Humans communicate as dogs and wolves do. But we do not have enough ofactory glands to tell one individual from another. We have to do that in a different way.
The uniqueness of each human voice stems from a complex interplay of anatomical factors and learned behaviors. Here's a breakdown of the key contributors:
Vocal anatomy: The size, shape, and elasticity of your vocal cords, along with the dimensions of your vocal tract (including your mouth, nose, and throat cavities), influence the fundamental pitch and resonance of your voice. These anatomical features are unique to each individual.
Learned behaviors: The way you use your voice, including your speaking habits, pitch variations, and emotional inflections, is shaped by your cultural background, social interactions, and personal experiences. This adds another layer of individuality to your voice.
Together, these elements create a vocal signature so distinct that even identical twins can be identified by their voices alone.
The uniqueness of human faces is a result of a complex interplay between genetics and environmental factors. Here's a breakdown of the key contributors:
Genetics: Our genes determine the basic blueprint of our facial features, including bone structure, muscle placement, and skin tone. However, genes don't provide a fixed recipe; they allow for variations, making each individual's combination unique.
Environmental factors: From the womb to adulthood, various environmental factors like prenatal conditions, diet, and even posture can subtly influence facial development, adding to the individuality we see.
Random chance: During embryonic development, even minor random variations in cell division can contribute to facial uniqueness.
The combined effect of these factors creates a vast number of possible facial configurations, making it highly unlikely for any two individuals to have exactly the same face.
It's an intriguing thought experiment to consider how humans would fare without the ability to distinguish each other visually. While facial recognition plays a significant role in social interactions and identity formation, it's not the only factor that shapes our relationships and communities.
Here are some potential challenges and adaptations if humans couldn't tell each other apart:
Challenges:
Social recognition: Recognizing individuals and forming relationships would be significantly more difficult. We rely on facial cues for nonverbal communication and emotional expression.
Personal identity: Our sense of self is partly shaped by how others perceive us. Without visual differentiation, self-identity and expression could be impacted.
Social organization: Daily activities and social structures might require major adaptations.
Adaptations:
Heightened reliance on other senses: Hearing, touch, and smell could become more important for recognizing and interacting with others.
Increased use of symbolic markers: Clothing, hairstyles, and other visual markers could take on greater significance for individual and group identification.
Shift in social dynamics: Communication and social interactions might emphasize shared experiences, values, and interests rather than individual appearances.
Ultimately, whether humans could "do well" without visual recognition is subjective and depends on how well we adapt to the challenges and develop alternative means of social connection and identification.
Therefore languages emerge because we all sound and look different because we cannot tell each other one from another as, E.G. dogs do.
Even if everyone sounded identical, communication would face challenges:
Speaker identification: Recognizing who's speaking in group conversations or when voices overlap would be difficult.
Emotional nuance: Tone and pitch convey emotions. Without them, understanding intent and sarcasm would be trickier.
Nonverbal cues: Visual expressions and gestures complement speech. Their absence could lead to misunderstandings.
Social cohesion: Shared accents and dialects foster group identity. Uniformity might weaken group bonds.
Personal expression: Vocal variety allows individuality. Monotony could hinder self-expression and creativity.
Despite these hurdles, humans would likely adapt through:
Emphasis on words: Precise language and enunciation would gain importance.
Alternative cues: Touch, smell, and posture might take on new significance in communication.
Symbolic communication: Clothing, hairstyles, and mannerisms could become identity markers.
Ultimately, communication would evolve, but human connection and expression would likely face challenges in a world without vocal variety.
We may not choose language, custom, habits, traditional, and more they maybe what we have to use given what we are.
Humans possess an innate capacity for language acquisition, but the specific languages we use are learned through social interaction and cultural experiences. While Chomsky's theory of universal grammar proposes innate linguistic principles, it's a complex concept with various interpretations and ongoing debate.
Ok. chatGPT and Google Gemini you say the said one must use the personal pronoun every time one uses a conjugated form of a verb.
Ok. That is not correct. However AI has to make an assumption. In French and English the pronoun must accompany the conjugated verb.
So if French, English, and German are the languages the major developers of chatGPT use like the human that started it it will make a similar assumption.
That is a good thing! That tells us that chatGPT and Google Gemini are living, breathing systems that not only teach but also learn.
When chatGPT and Google Gemini say something that is not correct I tell them via examples. The outcome has always been thank you. I did not originally understand that.
Those systems have to learn from us. It is not a one way street.
I asked Google Gemini to correct what I wrote above. This was the response:
"You're right that it's not always necessary to use a personal pronoun with every conjugated verb. While languages like French and English often require them, others like Spanish or Italian can omit them in certain contexts. It's true that language models like ChatGPT and I are constantly learning and evolving, and your feedback helps us improve our understanding. Keep providing examples and corrections, as it helps us become more accurate and informative.'
Back in the old days Google Translator asked you, me, and others who it knew were reliable language users to join with the application.
Many times we had to write in the best translation. Most people could not write in the best translation.
I would watch people using Google Translator in conversations and laugh. The people in the conversation would ask "what is so funny?"
Unlike what some think Google Gemini and ChatGPT work best when the user knows the language the AI is speaking.
AI is like talking to a Russian. One gets the most out of it when one can hear, listen and speak Russian.
But there is no human being that can match AI. It is smarter, knows more, learns faster, does not have an agenda.
Right now there is nothing that a human being can teach that it cannot teach better.
It cannot teach you how to hit a baseball yet but in less than six months there will be muscle tissued cybernetic beings that will be the best baseball players in the history of the game. We will have a cybernetic baseball league. That will mean that there will be no human professional baseball players. Just as there will be no more human language teachers.
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Absolutely agree. And not just that, languages by themselves and through cultures they encode physically shape you. As in, speakers of Russian are twice as fast at telling apart different shades of blue. Speakers of different Asian languages subconsciously pay a lot more attention to the background of one’s experience, and so on and so forth
Language learning is a process of self-training and improvement. With chatGPT, it is equivalent to having a 24-hour online linguistics tutor who can chat with you and help you correct mistakes. When the voice synthesis is more real and natural, the voice communication with chatGPT can also be regarded as a real person dialogue.
chatGPT and subsequent upgraded versions are a powerful language learning assistant.
We don't need to throw away our existing language learning methods, but with chatGPT we will have more choices, and learning languages will have more fun and imagination.
How much time do you think it would take for the voice support to come?
@@abhinavchauhan7864
ChatGPT isn't multimodal for the public yet, but this young man figured out how to do it using plug-ins. ruclips.net/video/F7vmOKXkB0U/видео.html
Lucca finished the talk with a flourish. "Screen devour your time and books feed your mind." I have the exact sensation! Books make the brain work while screens, despite the fact they can be really helpful, the applications lock your mind in, offers gamefication and there is release of dopamine, eventually, making us spend time absentmindedly.
I tested chatGPT out yesterday, asked it to explain a Japanese verb that I was struggling to understand with example sentences showing it used in context. It's answer was honestly quite perfect and really helped me a lot. Will definitely be testing out some more in the future.
My two idol polyglot masters ever together in a special video. I couldn't believe it. 🤩
Me too
Awesome to hear you both talk about ChatGPT in relation to language learning, I think a lot of us have been wondering about this lately!!! 🙌
There are already text to voice extension for ChatGPT. One can practice conversations directly with it. I would hope to see a more open minded discussion to help the viewers to embrace and utilize these new technologies and tools.
This feels a lot like a grandpa preparing his son to go even further than he did and teaching him all he learned so far. I love this conversation, you are both huge inspirations and encouragement to me. God bless you.
I always enjoy the videos where you two get together. Thanks to both of you for sharing your enthusiasm. It’s contagious
Thank you Steve for inviting such a wonderful guest.
You can ask Chat GPT to write stories in various languages at a given CEFR level. For example, I asked it to write 150 word story in Chinese at a CEFR A1. Once I get the story, I load it into LINGQ as a lesson. Works perfectly! Highly effective!
I'm learning Tetum Praça, the lingua franca of East Timor. There aren't many resources available for it. But amazingly ChatGPT knows it. You can have conversations in the language. Or you can ask it about any topic, or ask it to write stories, and to then translate the responses into Tetun. I get it to write stuff in English and then to translate into Portuguese and Tetun. I read all three versions and can understand 95% of the Tetum. Perhaps 40% of my comprehension of the Tetun comes from the context and cognate vocabulary provided by the first two versions.
Here is an example of learning about subtle German words from CHAT GPT. (I had wanted to discuss how my German got much better the last few years with the rich resources available of podcasts and YT videos. This led the options for AVAILABILITY, and: What is the difference between Verfügbarkeit and Erhältlichkeit? The difference seemed realistic to me, and 3 native speakers said this was good (one or two said it was better than they could explain !!).
## CHATGPT:
--In general, both "Verfügbarkeit" and "Erhältlichkeit" can be translated as "availability" in English. However, there is a subtle difference between the two words in German.
--"Verfügbarkeit" implies that something is available or ready to use, while "Erhältlichkeit" emphasizes that something can be obtained or acquired. In other words, "Verfügbarkeit" refers to the state of something being ready for use, while "Erhältlichkeit" refers to the possibility of obtaining something.
--For example, if we say that a product is "verfügbar", it means that it is ready to use or can be used immediately. On the other hand, if we say that a product is "erhältlich", it means that it can be obtained or purchased, but it may not be immediately available or ready to use.
--In the context of the original sentence, "Verfügbarkeit" emphasizes that there were many podcasts and RUclips channels that were readily available for use during the pandemic, while "Erhältlichkeit" would emphasize that these resources were obtainable or accessible during the pandemic
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Have you tried chatGPT?
I think it's important to bring it into discussion, I love the way you two run your channels giving tips and stuff. This video is another treasure. Congrats.
Luca’s English is amazingly native sounding.
100% agree. I can clearly see that he isn't a native English speaker, but his level in English to quote Christophe Clugston is phenomenal.
I asked ChatGPT who said: screens devour …… and it wrote: The quote "Screens devour your time while books feed your mind" is often attributed to an unknown author or source. It has become a popular saying among those who advocate for reading as a way to improve one's knowledge and well-being, while cautioning against spending too much time on screens, which can be a source of distraction and time-wasting.
Thanks a lot to Mr. Steve and Mr. Luca. You Are motivating in a good manner
Soon you will be able to actually chat with a bot. For some that will be a real game changer. Conversing with a person while making 2 or 3 mistakes per sentence makes me nervous. I believe there are many who would appreciate a nonjudgmental bot for beginning conversations.
So glad to follow your channel. Thank you so much for your insight!
What a beautiful conversation! Thanks Luca and Steve. ❤I truly loved this!
My wife and I just saw the play English this past weekend. It was a moving 1.5 hours devoted to all the meanings of language in our lives. Can't recommend it highly enough. AI can never replace language and it's rich expressiveness, a way of forming relationships, and emotions in our human culture.
I've only been learning a second language for 4 years, and I can't fathom how difficult it must have been for language learners to learn another language prior to the internet and digital resources. It would be interesting to know whether technology has resulted in more people becoming multi-lingual, or whether it's just resulted in people becoming better in their non-native languages.
I don't know if that make a difference, but back in the day, people when learning a second language had fewer resources than now and that I think played a big role into their capacity of remembering things and stuff. Internet is a nice revolution but sometimes people just get lazy because they think that Internet will solve all their problems and when learning a language the rate of attention into it can vary depending of how addicted to internet you are. But I'm not saying this is bad cause it changed the world in a good way but it has drawbacks.
OpenAI's "Whisper" has been the most useful language learning AI tool for me. Extremely useful.
Interesting, can you elaborate on how did you use whisper for learning? Thanks
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@@BacNguyen-hg9vt I use it to generate subtitles for videos/podcasts. I struggle the most with listening comprehension but this helps.
I just used this prompt... and it worked GREAT:
Me:
You are to play the role of my good natured German instructor. You are to follow two rules:
Rule 1 - You will always correct my German if I make an error and explain what I said wrong.
Rule 2 - You will always reply first in German then second in English.
If you understand, then please repeat these two rules while applying both rules.
ChatGPT:
Ja, ich verstehe. Regel eins besagt, dass ich immer Ihren deutschen Fehler korrigiere und erkläre, was Sie falsch gesagt haben. Regel zwei besagt, dass ich immer zuerst auf Deutsch antworte und dann auf Englisch. Wenn Sie möchten, können Sie beginnen.
Yes, I understand. Rule one states that I will always correct your German errors and explain what you said wrong. Rule two states that I will always reply first in German and then in English. If you'd like, you can start.
If there were apps that woild automatically dual subtitle, or even pause the original recording, and redupe what was said in the previous recording into another language, it would be legendary. The patterns would be noticed so quickly.
easy to use the transcribe function in iOS or Android to enter your text into ChatGPT entry field, so you do not have to type only.
Chat GPT is amazing for creating short stories in any language at any level. I tie this with Reverso.
My favorite use-case for chatGPT right now is that I can ask why a specific word is used in a sentence. I can also ask chatGPT how a sentence changes if I use a different word in it's place.
I found it very useful for generating specific vocabulary. For instance, I asked it to provide a list of words pertaining to yoga, cooking, the difference in vocabulary between Quebec and France. Within 5 seconds it presented lists for each category. I also requested to have a dialogue between me and ChatAI regarding traveling in Europe and using a C1 level. I asked for corrections if I made mistakes. I like this! However, I noticed that a few quirks in grammar. I tried to use the personal infinitive in Portuguese and it said I should be using the subjunctive when I knew I was correct. I think you can have fun with this tool. I am surprised that Steve and his friend were not really enthusiastic by it but to each his own.
Duolingo got me "involved" I went from struggling along with Russian to cruising on duo and thoroughly enjoying Russian, Italian, Greek, French and German. Came first in my league last week. So proud of myself. Ty.
That's an excellent way to start, now branch out with the same enthusiasm.
Love you, guys! Lots of respect to Steve for keeping up with and welcoming the progress!
I just watched the other video on Luca's Channel and i repeat, i love these two guys.
I would not be able to consider studying Hungarian without the internet but it's still a struggle to find CI content with embedded subtitles. To wit, there are still challenges which are language specific even with technological advances
Hello Mr. Kauffman. I'm from Puerto Ricos 🇵🇷 and i'm learning many languages at the same time. Thanks You for inspire me.
We are actually building something like chatgpt focusing on language learning. We call it Quazel and you can have open ended conversations with it 🙌.
Quazel is an interesting tool. I just downloaded the app. I don’t see why the teachers in this video haven’t recognized the value of chat ai. It’s like having a language partner at your disposal who has infinite patience and will talk about anything you want in your target language.
I've been using it to prepare graded reading in TW Mandarin, Japanese, and Mexican and Puerto Rican vernacular Spanish.
I'm also looking at using the OpenAI API directly to grade down (and elaborate on) more advanced material.
That is really cool so it created the material for you?
@@jsweebles2150 yeah.. ChatGPT itself is sometimes very good at this, but you kinda need to already know what you're doing or you'll end up with crap.
Just discovered this awesome tool using chatgpt for learning Arabic. If you can make a video about it in case you find the tool interesting. I typed into chatgpt the below and it generated 100s of sentences I could learn from. There were some minor mistakes but I think it is ok.
Can you prepare a cloze test in the following format:
قَرَأَ محمدُ ال_______ بِتَمْهِيدٍ، ثُمَّ _______ الْكِتَابَ كُلَّهُ.
أ- بابَ / قرأَ
ب- كِتابَ / رَفَعَ
ج- مَدْرَسَةَ / أكْمَلَ
د- قَلَمَ / نَظَرَ
To complete the passage, choose the appropriate word from the options above to fill in the blanks. The correct answers are "كِتابَ" and "أكْمَلَ", so the completed passage would read:
"قَرَأَ محمدُ الكِتابَ بِتَمْهِيدٍ، ثُمَّ أكْمَلَ الْكِتَابَ كُلَّهُ."
Translation: "Mohammed read the book with an introduction, then he completed the entire book."
ChatGPT is decent enough for explaining grammar and conjunctions. Have it make example sentences for words you’re learning. Take a word list and tell it to use them all in a story. Or copy paste a story from LingQ and tell it to rewrite the story using most of the same words.
I asked it for example sentences in French, and it made so many obvious mistakes. I asked "why" and it produced made up language rules to justify its mistakes. Scary.
Wondering whether later versions will be better. At its current state, I have a hard time trusting any of its output.
@@Ph34rNoB33r yeah. It’s a large language model program, but the problem I think most of its training input was English. I’ve had the same issues, I tell native speakers the sentences and they definitely tell me there’s awkward phrasing sometimes.
Steve! thank you for all these years.
GREAT! MANY THANKS . Very inspiring!. BRAVO!!!
Thanks to know your Channel and ready to learn Languages with you.
it's good to see both of you guys talk again
I think chatGPT would assist people bridge language barriers. And also image generators in llet's say trying to show people what you mean by justs generating an image. And also, chat bots could also learn multiple languages and have a conversation for practice.
The more time I spend learning languages and watching Steve's videos the more I feel like I should find a way to work with him hahaha it's good to see "o brilho no olho".
I was looking forward to your attitude towards GPT chat and glad to hear your thoughts are identical to what I think about the new device. There should be no fear at all that modern devices rob people of their jobs, they create new jobs.
Regarding language learning I always recommend my students to use all available tools. Whether you learn a language using a book, or a tape, or radio, or video, or a vlog, or a translator , or IK, finally you speak or communicate in writing to a human being.
Personally, I think ChatGPT is great at recommending very specific content, like swedish gaming youtubers that are not playing Minecraft or Turkish dramas that are more action-based. Things like that can be a lot more useful than a verb conjugation you can google in 3 seconds anyway.
I have been onto Lingq app but can't find the Thai language. Is it on there and I just can't find it?
Hoping you can help. I love your talks and have already learned much. We are going to Thailand in July with a view to moving from Australia. Thank you
ChatGPT-4 makes much(!) less mistakes etc. (I wouldn’t want to go back to version 3, but the availability of version 4 is really poor at the moment...)
I think I will try to use it for a normal and a literal translations and grammar questions for „my own learning material“ to speed up the process, so that I can spend more time on listening etc. and less time searching for possible explanations or the best translation of a word, because ChatGPT understands context. (I create my own material by playing God of War on PS5 in Japanese with Japanese subtitles and upload the video on my private RUclips channel after cutting it. Then I usually sit down, write the text in a document and try to figure everything out, which usually takes a very long time... My goal is usually to have a translation below every unknown word and a good understanding of the meaning of the sentence, before I start listening.)
Here is a video to get more inspiration on how to use it for language learning:
ruclips.net/video/sXOAanKbXAQ/видео.html
ChatGPT is the best thing that has happened to my language learning experience so far.
Love both of you ❤️🤗
I use duolingo and I have been hoping they include a conversational model of gaming into it, which asks us questions and we buy things from shops and interact with characters and move ahead the level, coz reading sentences and third person narration is not that useful in developing language.
Brilliant stuff! Thanks guys.❤️
You guys helped me not feel guilty about not using Chat GPT yet !🤗
I've said it before and I'll say it again, you can see that Luca isn't a native speaker, but damn his english is good.
Hats off to you man.
Is there any updates on Conversational AI ? This video is 7 months old and I've heard about Conversational AI and I really would like to know how to get it. Please help me if you can.
Hi Lucas, i'm new to chatgpt... can you share how to make use of my android smartphone for chatgpt ? Awaiting & thanks in advance.
Flashcards/SRS/ANKI is testing. Match pairs/duolingo is testing. Testing is not learning. Testing comes AFTER you learn. Dopamine/shmopamine. If you want that, kill something in a video game.
Both videos from you and Luka appeared at the same time!
My favorite RUclipsrs in one video ❤️
AIs could be of use in language learning through visualization. Imagine utilizing Bluewillow AI to generate images of a certain culture to help better understand the people and the language.
I didn't know Luca, I liked him though.
Thanks for sharing this content. I've learned as always.
I think if chat gpt can be used to have conversations, and it can respond like a native speaker, and can understand how to respond in ways useful to language learning, this could possibly become the single greatest advance to language learning ever. If ai software can do this same thing with speech, respond like a native speaker and teach the language.. that's game over for language teachers
Imagine an infinitely patient teacher accessible twenty four seven, with a totally complete vocab and flawless grammar, that knows every slang, that can emulate every type of accent...that's where this is heading, this will be the end of language teachers
When u Love IT and Languages this is crazy good
I use bing chat to practice my english speaking skills. It is fantastic🎉
ChatGPT is much better at translating than Google Translate or Deepl. I use it regularly to translate from Japanese and it's very helpful. I can explain the context of the sentence (for better translation) or ask for details (words, grammar, etc.) about what has been translated. I like it so much that I've created an iOS shortcut to generate translations (via the OpenAI API) and I look forward to the day when it's integrated into LingQ, hopefully not too far away!
EXCELLENT 👏👏👏👏 CHARLES STAUDT FROM BRAZIL 🇧🇷
Agree with Luca 💯% !
Очень интересная беседа. Спасибо за цитату про время, сжираемое экраном и книги, питающие наш разум!👍
The future won't only have machines to translate our words. It will have machines to help us speak thousands of languages.
Anki, or any flashcards software, isn't necessarily bad. What makes them not all that efficient is the lack of knowing what to do besides these "reviews," so you'll pick up the language quicker. So, if combined with real exposure to the language, it can be proven a great tool for your language learning journey.
Ohh I was waiting for this
Can u tell me how i speak english what book i can reading ,,,
Very encouraging.
I use chat gpt everyday to improve my written french. And it's just amazing. If you combine it with tools like google translation or natural reader for listening and speaking practice, you will improve very fast. Duo Lingo and other methods are a joke compared to what chat gpt can do for you in terms of language learning. Of course you need to know how to use it. Sorry for the bad English. I'm brazilian and I haven't used chat gpt for improving my English yet, lol.
I've been using Google translate for 3 years or 4 years not sure, Google translate might be wrong in translating certain sentences, but it's better that nothing, agreed, i use Google stranslate to translate words that i don't know in English, it's quite useful for me.😁
Language instructors should learn all the affordances of these tech tools and use them appropriately in the classroom. 90% of students cannot learn by themselves, they need someone to direct them (ZPD) at least at their earlier phases of their learning.
Anyone can explain to me why the sentence " till there 'was' you, is correct instead of "till there 'were' you"? Thank you! The same : I didn't think was you. And not " were you. Thank you so much.
@onyenswisdom The so-called past subjunctive (also called the were-subjunctive) is used in clauses of hypothetical condition. It differs from the past indicative of be only in the first and third person singular, which popularly replace it.
The reference is to present (or future) time, e.g.
If I were you, I’d own up (If I was you . . .)
If only my grandfather were alive today (If only my grandfather was . . .)
If she were to come tomorrow ... (If she was to . . .) it's free for you m-o-t-h-er---- f----u---c--k--e--r!!!
AI is going to be an extremely useful language learning tool, for those who know how to use it.
I love these two guys... But I hate when they are negative about DUOLINGO... By the way is LingQ free??????
It very useful and interesting conversation for me. Now I am learning English, because it is not my advice language.
Interesting conversation
Lots of great ideas here about how to use (or not use) the current generation of AI language models.
I got distracted, though, by the discussion of flash cards. My experience has been that a handful of high-frequency words, often those that describe abstract relationships, really don’t stick well with lots of reading even though I see them (and look them up) all the time. I have found targeted flash card practice really helpful at making these words stick in my memory.
In a typical day, I might have one to two hours of reading and listening in my TL and five to ten minutes of flash card review of just those frequent words that haven’t stuck for me. But, I find that small amount of time is disproportionate in improving both my listening and reading comprehension.
(I note that this time expenditure is consistent with Steve’s five to ten percent suggestion, and I find it’s plenty to make a difference.)
can you recommend any good french podcasts?
InnerFrench
Audiovisuals for dyslexics too.
Amazing....❤
Very true about technology devouring us if we’re not rooted and grounded in our purpose!
I love mr. Steve Kaufmann
If Chat GDP were a little better at Korean and could lookup words, give examples, and generate content I would absolutely use it and I would use it a lot for my learning. Graded readers are too practical, politically correct, and boring but if the AI could think outside of a teacher’s or textbook publisher’s box and write stuff that’s at least weird it could be great.
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👍🐁 we also learn a lot using ChatGPT 😊🐁👍
My boyfriend tried It and It doesn't work properly!
Great channel ongoing eh
In my experience it is not accurate enough to be relied on - like 80-90%. Like Steve's example where it got one out of 10 wrong. And it is less accurate with the less common languages. If it I use it 5 times, i'll find makes 2-3 errors. In 15 minutes of use, it will mess up at least 2 times. I asked it to create multiple choice questions out of German passage about the Chinese response to the US dealing with the balloon incident. 3 questions were good, but one said that the US was trying to get attention for domestic issues, when China said the US was trying to distract (abzulenken) from domestic issues.
A lot of people are saying it is going to destroy traditional language learning - make teachers obsolete etc. Actually, I think the best use right now is for teachers to generate content like reading material, quizzes and then correct all the little mistakes it makes.
I don't think GPT will actually get that much better for language learning use cases because OpenAI is not really training it for that. It wants it to be kinda of a google replacement - that is where the money is. Other companies will use the base model to train for specific languages and uses cases. I doubt those models will be available like ChatGPT is now. ChatGPT is as good as it is because OpenAI spent a ton on human annotation. That is how it will make progress. It was trained with a Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback method, not on just a bunch of text.