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Show HN: Learn any language with an AI tutor at your own pace
- clbrmbr 3y agoQuestions for creator: Is this supposed to teach absolute beginners? Or do you assume some knowledge of the language already? Is it a comprehensive course, or should it be used as a supplement to a course?
- wsieroci 3y agoIt is rather for people who knows some basics, but would like to improve their language. It is necessary to be able to chat at least at some basic level.
- yurishimo 3y agoI'm curious how much effort goes into the management of these LLM backed language tools? I'm learning a less popular language (Dutch) and almost none of them support the it out of the box. Is this a marketing decision? What is the overhead to add support for a new language?
- cwbuilds 3y agoWe do! We have a free tier if you want to try it out. This was our launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973400 Hope it helps with your Dutch :)
- EForEndeavour 3y agoFor what it's worth, ChatGPT Plus can understand both written and spoken Dutch, and write or speak it back.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoI have a feeling that soon we will stop learning new languages to communicate with others because real-time AI translation will be so good, and we'll learn languages in a vacuum for intellectual amusement only, barely getting past the A2 level due to the lack of true human stimulation in the activity. This tool is certainly a step in that direction, and it strikes me as a great loss to humanity because we are losing our diversity. It just makes no sense to equalize all possible abilities over all human beings so we have nothing to offer each other.
- BossingAround 3y agoBy that token, nobody needs math today because computers do it for us.
- sumitkumar 3y agoI have a feeling that soon we will have models which will predict the future better than humans and then the humans will stop predicting it and we will lose all insights into how to predict the future. at least the models will not make mistakes. /s
- kjellsbells 3y agoDepends on the language and the reason to learn it. Right now its pretty discouraging. I pick up, say, enough Italian to get through a 2 week holiday, but all the people I interact with are under 40 and keen to practice their (excellent) English. English is so much the Common Tongue that I even hear the French and German visitors using it. But: if I can get thru that, and start to engage with (say) Italy at a deeper level, away from tourist activities, or starting to engage with their literature, then learning the language will have a huge payoff. It's just a bit disheartening when you struggle to reach A2 or B1 but can't use it in the country because everyone switches to English. I guess my accent needs more work than I thought...
- Swizec 3y ago> But: if I can get thru that, and start to engage with (say) Italy at a deeper level I was at a native+ level of English in high school according to an IELTS test I took for fun. During college my English improved further. When I moved to USA … ho boy the difference between fluent English and culturally fluent idiomatic English is surprisingly vast. Much hilarity, frustration, and subtle misunderstandings ensued. It’s like an uncanny valley when your language is so good you start being judged as a native who’s a little weird and unsettling. After 9 years of full immersion (I live here with nobody of my native language to speak with), you could say my English is near perfect. Hell I write and publish books in English! The next generation has started using new idioms I do not fully grok. What the hell is “based”? Basically feels impossible for to ever fully catch up. Language moves too fast and your cultural background will never be same as the natives. Edit: One super interesting aspect is that to speak fluent native English you have to do it wrong. Californians, for example, don’t use the plural contraction. You have to say “there’s many options” instead of “there are many options”. Otherwise you sound like a weirdo.
- thrownaway561 3y agoThe demo video was giving me motion sickness. Usually language is about talking to communicate... This seems more of typing.
- anais9 3y agoYeah, my interest was piqued by the title but that demo video torpedoed it... Which is such a bummer because language learning is a perfect use case for LLMs
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- chankstein38 3y agoSeems basically like a gpt prompt: "When I speak, respond in the language that I speak in but provide me translations in (language)" I was definitely hoping for more depth here.
- hashtag-til 3y agoNoooo... I had this idea!
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- dvh 3y agoAny == 6
- BtM909 3y agoDon't all languages boil down to these 6? /s
- jsf01 3y agoAre the testimonials also AI?
- outside1234 3y agoOf course they are
- yellow_lead 3y agoFor those interested in this, there are a lot on the app stores these days that integrate this a bit better, i.e ask what you want to talk about first, and then you communicate for a short time with the AI about the topic.
- 1024core 3y agoTitle: ... Learn ANY language .... Reality: Supported languages: English, Tiếng Việt, Polski, Español, Français, Deutsch :-|
- thesaintlives 3y agoSeems completely rubbish..
- volvic_olcay 3y agoI think concept-wise, it is a great idea. I saw some other examples in the GPTStore - e.g. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-RR3RCyK8N-language-teacher-ms-smith https://chat.openai.com/g/g-RR3RCyK8N-language-teacher-ms-sm...