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I used it for English and my speaking skills have improved from A2 to B2 and now working to get C1 and I won't take a lot of time to reach it. Reading - Listening the same but I didn't use chatgpt for them so it doesn't work for all the skills you can use it for speaking or writing nothing else.
I just started for the second time using LingQ for language learning and I like it very much. But...is there a place where users can report aspects of tools that don't work well (buggy) or that could be improved to make the tool easier to use?
I use ChatGPT to learn english and now I'm starting to learn serbian, I ask to ChatGPT to give an explanation about grammar and about some words. And if there any new word I ask to chatgpt to make a story with these new words. I think that ChatGPT is a great resource to learn any language, because it creates content that is very hard to find. For example, if I can't find any book Serbian-Portuguese (my native language), I'll request a help from ChatGPT and it makes possible to learn any language.
Pametno si odlučio da učiš srpski, jer taj jezik razume barem 20 miliona ljudi na Balkanu, a možeš delimično da se sporazumevaš i sa 10 miliona Bugara, a pomalo i sa Česima, Slovacima, Poljacima i Ukrajincima. Ruski je možda i najudaljeniji od srpskog što se tiče izgovora.
@@goranvuletic8873 Srpski, Ruski i Poljski ako znas, mozes da slobodno komuniciras sa celim Slovenskim svetom…ne vidim poentu da neki uci nesto drugo, osim naravno ako zivi tamo, ili mu je partner odatle, i slicno.
I'm French, and I use ChatGPT in different ways to learn Chinese. You can try prompts like: - "Write 5 sentences in Hanzi using HSK1-level vocabulary. Then I will tell you what I think they mean, and you will check my translations." - "I'm a beginner in Chinese, and I want to chat with you in Chinese. Ask me questions using simple words and correct me if I make mistakes." - "Here is a list of words. For each word, write a sentence replacing the word with ???? ''. Present the sentences in random order." (Variant: choose 5 HSK3-level words and write sentences replacing the word with ???? ''). - "Give me 5 examples of how the word '___' is used." - "From the following list of words, create an Anki cards .csv file with Hanzi + Pinyin on the front of each card and an example sentence using that word (only in Hanzi) on the back, so I can guess the meaning."
Thanks so much for the mention Steve! 🙏 I’m a big fan of your channel. I definitely agree talking to a tutor is much more enjoyable. I wonder if for some people it might help get them ready to have a basic conversation without any social pressure. It’s certainly a useful tool.
I have asked it to write a 500 word story only using the top 1000 words in Language. And give me the same story but in English. Tadaa, bilingual simple text. I love it.
In my experience, ChatGPT works best when you're in the A2-B1 range. With Portuguese, I was at a high A2 level, which wasn’t enough to have meaningful conversations with most people. But using ChatGPT’s conversation feature helped a ton. It speaks clearly, a little slower, and uses simpler vocabulary than an average person, plus you get instant feedback. It’s great if you’re not looking to pay for a tutor up until about the B2 level. I recently tested at B2 in Portuguese, and honestly, the robot conversations feel too simple now-I don’t get much out of them. But for my next language, I’m sure I’ll rely on ChatGPT again when I hit the later beginner stage.
You don't need chatgpt's text, at this rate, you can watch TV shows and search for meaningful real content. I recommend animations, because the dialogue is clear, as it's recorded in a special studio, and Brazilian voice actors are the best in the world (search for Guilherme Briggs). ChatGPT can still help you at more advanced levels, if you ask themes and give your essays for it to correct.
Really? I’m a C1 in French, and I find that ChatGPT works wonders for ANY level - you just need the right prompts or a bit more creativity. Or maybe that’s because I’m using the advanced model.
I agree.yeah it is so far not smart enough to cover all the level. I am B1 German and using it really helps me a lot for my listening, bsc I am also so afraid of talking people on the street and cannot understand them on the first try..
I use ChatGTP to make simpler versions of difficult text in my target language. This is very nice as it allows me to understand and appreciate fragments of original Literature. For instance, today I wanted to read a bit from Erasmus' Mora Encomiae (Praise of Stupidity) in Latin. Yet, my level is not so advanced yet. I only understand more or less 2500 words. So what I do is * I first ask to give me a simpler slightly summarized version of the original text only using simple vocabulary to get the main jist * next I ask a sentence by sentence rendition in simpler language but truthful to the original sentence, which I then study sentence by sentence together This works fabulously, it expands my vocabulary immensely without that I have to resort to translation to English or my mother tongue and I can appreciate the beauty of the original text and how much better it is than simplifications
Wow I thought I was the only one that does this . I’ll type “Write me a typical conversation with a native French speaker and a beginner French learner with English translation and key vocab”(this helps me get an idea on what to expect when communicating with native speakers as a foreigner practicing my French as well as learning key vocab)
Cool fact: you can have it create those summaries or write essays and then have it read it to you in the language you’re learning. Super cool! Thank you for this video Steve.
ChatGPT is great honestly, I'm currently learning Russian and I can ask ChatGPT to generate stories for A1 level, A2, B1 etc... and it does. It helps me memorize words and I train my reading skills. It is very good. It can also explain me quite easily things I don't get instantly, differences between Зачем and Почему, things like that. it is really good.
I use ChatGPT (Bing) to understand Chinese. I will copy a Bible verse(s) in Chinese and ask for a translation. Then I’ll ask why certain words are used and other words that could have been used. ChatGPT gives excellent explanations within the context of the verse. It also helps that I know the English for the verses. This helps avoid any errors in translations or grammatical errors.
hello! your video just popped up and while i was watching i got surprised that you've been learning turkish! it's so inspiring to see my native language! good luck with learning turkish it's one of the richest languages in the world!
I prefere dialogs and linguistics. My prompt for the last few days was: "Let's continue our imaginary conversation between Dr Stephen Krashen and a Chinese learner who is at B2 level and learning for over 10 years. Write the conversation in Chinese, hanzi only, make it long. The learner now has the question: ..." You can use this in the same chat and that way it will have some memories about the old topics and will connect to it.
What helps a lot with learning is this: Ask it to practice with you and use sentences in all tenses to test you with a variety of verbal and grammar. Then, prompt it to tell you the sentence in your native language, and then you respond in your learning language to test yourself. You can prompt it also to shorten, lengthen, or increase the learning level of the sentences. This will help someone who is ready to start speaking and can already understand (hear) the language they're learning. Later, get get your pencil and notebook out and go over the chat log questions. Test yourself by going over the same questioned sentences and write them out, while at the same time correcting your errors learned with the speech practice. I recommend paying for the upgraded plus version to have access to the better chat bot and increased speaking time to not run out.
Steve Bey çok güzel bir videoydu..Ufuk açıcı güzel bilgiler verdiniz.. ayrıca Türkçe'ye göstermiş olduğunuz ilgi ve alaka da bizleri mutlu ediyor.. dil çalışmalarınızda başarılar diliyorum
I watched the same video and since then I'm using it even more intensely. For English it's awesome, but for other languages it works good as well, maybe with a few mistakes here and there. For me the life saviour is it can explain any aspect of any target language, say Chinese, directly in Greek✨ I cannot underline enough how big of a difference that makes! Also, not a great fan of "self-help" books, but Elif Shafak is really great. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World is a fantastic book to have a better look into the Turkish society.
I've started recently to refresh my grammar with ChatGPT, for example give me opportunity to practice 'so', 'such', 'such a', 'no such', 'so long time', such a long time' etc. Everytime you'll exposed to a new example etc. It's better than our paper workbook with a few that same examples all the time.
This was super eye opening for me thank you so much Steve! I've been learning Italian for over a year and going off of what you support (C.I) but my interest is in films, very niche esoteric foreign films and it's hard to find a lot of articles or reviews about the films I enjoy. I just tried chatgpt and asked it to write a review of the 1970 Italian film Il Conformista and it worked like a charm. Thank you again Steve I'll be using it a lot more now.
I use ChatGPT to create graded readers for me in the languages I'm studying, but it hadn't occurred to me to import them to LingQ! Definitely gonna have to do that going forward!
Thanks, Steve! Since I am so busy writing my novel, it's been hard to learn a language fluently. But if I'm ever studying a language, it's usually Japanese or German!
Great idea! Thanks for giving a hint to it. Just for a try I've asked GPT to write the summary for Roald Dahl's "Matilda" in Estonian. And then the the word-to-word translation. And it gave the answer in no time. And also produced a rather good audio. 👍
Gracias por la información! Te admiro mucho y sería un sueño para mi, ser políglota como tú algún día... por ahora estoy tratando de aprender inglés sin morir en el intento... 😅 Veamos que nos trae el tiempo...
I hadn't thought of this! I use Claude but will function in the same way so I'll give it a go. Of course if you are desperate to listen to it then there are ok TTS options out there.
For interesting stories I would recommend Claude (3.5 Sonnet), because it’s better at creative writing. And ChatGPT is the better choice for summaries etc.
Kıymetli Steve Bey, merhaba. Emeğinize sağlık 💚 güzel video yapmışsınız, bravo. Videonun konusu da çok güzel! 🇺🇦🇹🇷 Hello, I had been using ChatGPT learning Turkish for more than 1 year. I created several chats, based on Collocations in use and Frequency dictionaries. I found ChatGPT very helpful. Also I use it to find synonyms. I use also Quizlet (I found another apps a little bit difficult). My level in Turkish is B1 at least. And I recommend to use artificial intelligence. Also I work with lexics, I create different structures, I mean I create some topic lists. But I always use lexical approach as a method of studying. I learn mostly collocations and chunks. Waiting forward for another videos.
Chat GPT is extremely potent for language learning. I like to ask it to provide a story or a short text in my target languages where every sentece is followed by a translation between parenthesis, thus creating parallel text. I also ask it about word usage and certain grammar points. If you don't have access to a teacher, ChatGPT is the way to go.
Agreed, I do a similar thing. What bothers me though is that the stories I get are too stupid and tacky for my taste. Any ideas how to get quality stories?
@@Reflekt0r So, since I'm interested in mythology, I asked GPT to tell me stories from Norse Mythology in German. I usually ask for retellings of famous stories.
I ask ChatGPT to write a short story using new words, which I write down from the book I read. Usually I write them in my notebook with a translation and a context to repeat in certain intervals, and recently started to process them with ChatGPT. I give it a list of words, ask it to use them one by one in a sequence provided (otherwise it goes astray and uses them randomly and may skip many words), also prompt it to highlight these new words in bold and I also give some short plot related to the book to retain some resemblance of the concocted story with a book (the affinity depends on the prompt - I don't make it detailed). So with 20-40 words, it makes an A4 page of meaningful text to provide a better context for learned words; it is easy to learn and repeat.
Interesting, I do a similar thing. What bothers me though is that the stories I get are too stupid and tacky for my taste. Any ideas how to get quality stories?
@@Reflekt0r I see your point. Sometimes the narration is too simplistic, but I don't aspire to make it entertaining. In fact, the strange, stupid situations can be even more memorable - it is known from mind-map tutorials, or you can know it from the pop-culture when you can't get rid of a silly song out of your mind, you can add some other conditions in the prompt that may impact your perception (some personal, scary or sexy stuff for example). But if you really want to add more meaning to the text, it might be achieved with more intricate prompting and/or more advanced models (like GPT on the Pro account or free larger models elsewhere - HuggingFace). I tried the latter - Llama 450G but didn't notice the difference with my usual prompt, and this model also tends to skip words from the list. Probably the good promt is more effective measure even with a moderate model, but I haven't explored this way since I'm satisfied with current results. So it's more about "prompt engineering" which quickly becomes an industry, but some easy tips you can find here help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-for-prompt-engineering-with-the-openai-api
I use ChatGPT to generate content in Arabic dialects that are difficult to find in written form, primarily Egyptian Arabic. I ask it to generate the type of content I'm interested in (History for example). You can ask it to generate the texts at various degrees of difficulty: ""Could you please create an introduction to the history of Egypt in Egyptian dialect, tailored for a beginner student trying to learn this dialect?" You can also request it to generate the same content in the present, past, and future tenses. Asking for the past or future tense is particularly interesting if you already have the audio for one version of the text but would like to see it in different tenses.
I actually do find that asking for specifications for language in ChatGPT is very helpful, especially if you are a fairly new to the language. It can use the CEFR for generating level-based content fairly skillfully (in my experience), and having it generate material closer to your own level seems quite in line with Comprehensible Input. That way I'm not encountering so many unfamiliar words, thus making it overly difficult and causing me to lose interest.
I use chatgpt to learn japanese and it is better than any other resource for gramma and understanding vocabulary. Already at N1 content after 9 months.
That so cool, i just started using it this weekend to help me with my japanese learning. I ask to analyse sentences for me and break them down among other things. Can you give me some prompts, advice or anything. P.S As much as possible. I won't be burdened by it.
@@deseanlothianHey I’m not learning Japanese (I’m learning French) but what I’ll do is type out a command saying ….. ‘write me a typical conversation involving a native French speaker and French learner with English translation and vocab’ this helps me with reading comprehension; so I’ll naturally build my vocabulary, I’ll have more of an idea on what to expect when speaking with native speakers because they’ll use common phrases , I’ll get key vocabulary that could be very essential , and of course English translations! I hope and pray the very best for your language learning journey my man, keep going the language is yours .
@@deseanlothian Nothing special really, I do not use any particular prompts. What I do most of the time is to look up words I mined into my Anki deck, because the JP-EN dictionary is complete crap and often times it is not clear how the word is used or what it means and sometimes the dictionary is just flat out wrong. Transitivity as a concept was also not clear to me and it was really helpful to dig deep into it with chatgpt. Same goes for very basic stuff like は/が and particles in general which most people only seem to have extremely confusing or incomplete explanations for. I also use it to generate some tests so I can get a better understanding on what I have to improve on to accelerate my progress, right now it is about multi layered descriptive clauses. Just be careful that chatgpt can sometimes contradict itself or get confused when you ask about more complicated grammatical concepts.
@@jzo1414 Indeed chat gpt is not perfect, but no tool is. I've done studying on は/が as well. Before i had many incomplete explanations and used my intuition. Until i found a video recently from Jouzu Juls and it was perfect. (He is really good at explaining, editing, and he uses legitimate concepts and stuff seen in linguistics; however he doesn't actually have much videos, quite the shame.) The absolute difference it makes when you actual understand stuff like sentence structure, は/が for like topic and subject. My reading is alot slower right now, since i just started understanding these grammar. But instead of reading, and only getting just the readings. Im actually understanding everything in my immersion. It's amazing. I might need to review transitivity again. As well. Anyways, I get the gist of how you use it. Thanks alot. Your advice will help me alot. All the best to you. (sorry for the long reply, I tend to yap.)
It is indeed a good idea to use chatGPT for creating lessons. I tried using Wikipedia articles as lessons but they are too complicated for beginners and too long (Soviet Union article in Russian). So I will try using chatgpt to either simplify the article or let gpt create something on its own.
As for the amount of unique words: I've been reading this month some books in some languages that I'm learning, putting them into the tool to separate the unique words, and, I need to say, I've noticed how misleading it can be. For example, there is a book in French called "La Dame en Blanc," which in total (and I'm talking about the first word appeared in the book until the literal last word) have 231,220 words, of which just around 17,000 are unique. Martin Luther King's biography, one that I'd read in English, even mentioned the other day, has within the same analysis, the total around of 131,000 words, of which around 13,200 are unique. Furthermore, "Fables", a French book, exactly 7,123 total words of which 2,205 are unique. For that reason, I suspect when I see those counters showing "oh, you've been in contact with 30,000 unique words". It looks like too much. It may be not true, not even close to that, and rather, way lower than that. Because it depends on how it's been counting, what the algorithm considers a word or does not. And by far, it seems that the algorithm considers somehow more words than it actually is.
Hi, i'm a big fan of your videos and I have been learning a lot of from them, but lately I have seen that the subtitles have a little delay respect the video, and that makes dificult the process. So please check this little issue for future videos. Thanks!!! Soy de Colombia y he aprendido mucho con tu canal quiero seguirlo haciendo.
I use chatgpt by asking it to make me translate a sentence in the target language, and explain where I made mistakes, and after that it will ask me to translate another sentence and so on.
A few hours before this was posted it occurred to me I could get comprehensible input for a ton of random kanji by asking chat gpt for a lot of sentences with kanji and parallel kana & English translations & then you post about ChatGPT for language learning 😅
Could you please describe what you do on lessons with tutor? Let's say in a language where you already have B1/B2. Is it more about debating on interesting topics or something else?
How are these summaries different from stories? Essentially it seems to me chatgpt can bridge the gap between beginner or intermediate (A2 B1 B2) to advanced (C1 C2) so that one may start to read native content. I find its stories very repetitive but I guess it's much better than nothing. A very useful tool.
I am always a bit worried about the quality of the support for different languages. Not sure if ai tools are that reliable already, especially the generalists like chatgpt. It's just meant to sound nice, not necessarilyto be a good source of information.
Very good ideas. As with previous videos, your subtitles are out of sync with your audio. They start out in sync but as the video progresses, it gets more and more off. Please fix.
Sorry Mr. Steve. The subtitles in the video are a little out of sync. I don't know if it's a TH-cam problem, but it was a bit confusing to follow what you said by reading the subtitles.
I wonder if there's a way to give GPT a document of all your words in LingQ and their level, having it create stories or summaries with your optimal amount of new and recognized words.
Off topic, but what would it take to make LingQ group words by lemma, at least as an option? I get that for some distant languages you want to treat every form of a word as a new word to be learned, but for Romance languages where you have already learned the grammar, it takes a tedious amount of reading to get to a point where LingQ is caught up with your own vocabulary. This is the single biggest thing that keeps me from using LingQ as much as I’d like to.
I have been doing this for a while and I will say it is excellent for english and german, but pretty bad for mandarin. It nomally makes sense for mandarin but will often say complete gibberish.
Is there a Brazilian here learning English that would like to language swap on the phone? I do a lot of reading and writing and w decent amount of listening daily but I never get to speak and I just want to talk on the phone in portuguese with a Brazilian
I may try this but I think I have to ask in my target language, because I've tried asking it in English and it replies with a terrible American accent.
One thing to note is that while ChatGPT is excellent at explaining grammar and giving enlightening examples, it is absolutely horrid at etymology. If you ask it any etymological question, there is, as of September 2024, almost no chance that the output won't be nonsensical garbage.
Chat GPT does not work well at all for languages which have more than one form - stylistic/dialectal variation, such as Arabic or Welsh. The erroneous assumption is there is one single standard form which needs to be taught.
Asking AI to write in a foreign language is simply substitution of English words by foreign words while mainly retaining the English grammar. As such, you are missing all of the tricky elements like particles and idiomatic ways of expressing yourself in that language. For example, if I need the next sentence to start with 'table', in English I would perhaps write, 'The Table was set by Anita.' But in Lithuanian, I would write 'The table set Anita.' (with table in the accusative and Anita in the nominative.) AI will not catch that difference.
@@Thelinguist I prefer not to waste time with fake grammar and to practice words with real grammar. Each author uses his or her own specific vocabulary, not a generic vocabulary. But to be more precise, English speaks of isobars and air pressure, Lithuanian of cyclones and anticyclones. Thus, ChatGPT does not talk about the latter unless you ask it to define the terms. And I just tried that last week with the free v. 4.
This is simply false. You can prompt chatGPT to scrape the internet for anything. I have personally forced chatGPT to alter grammatical structure simply by prompting it to do. Your statement is correct if you do nothing to specialize the request. Your statement is wrong if you spend extra time personalizing your experience.
I just tried 2 different lists, dairy terms and then dairy products (30 most common of each). Neither list contained the word surelis even though it is a major product here. Why? Because it translates as quark, which is not sold in the US or UK, only NE Europe. It even uses the less popular translation of blue cheese. That it starts lists listing cheese types when it has not listed all of the dairy product types is very telling.
Actually, that's not quite true. Many language translation tools do as you say, but ChatGPT is different. GPT uses idioms appropriate to the target language. For example, I use it to translate tricky passages from the books I'm reading and I often have to ask it for a more literal translation because the version it produced first was full of English idioms that I know were not part of the original text. In fact, using it to identify idioms in the source material has been a game changer for me.
DONT!!!!!! Learn the languages with the chatgpt. I did it and literally 30% of his "translations" were completely bullshit. E.g. I told him to list me the numbers 1 to 50 in syrian arabic. I told him he should write them how theyre actually pronounced and also in arabic. It said so much wrong stuff. I told him his mistakes and told him he should write again. He literally made the same altough I just told him. If I didnt knew what the numbers were I would have learned a bunch of shit. In arabic ashara means ten and 8 means tmani. 18 means tmin ta'ash. It told me its tmin w ashar (trans. to 10 and eight). And that happened very often even if I let him correct him 10 times it still was there and everytime he assured me that it is right.
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❓Do you use ChatGPT for learning languages? If so, tell me how you do it in the comments!
I used it for English and my speaking skills have improved from A2 to B2 and now working to get C1 and I won't take a lot of time to reach it.
Reading - Listening the same but I didn't use chatgpt for them so it doesn't work for all the skills you can use it for speaking or writing nothing else.
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I just started for the second time using LingQ for language learning and I like it very much. But...is there a place where users can report aspects of tools that don't work well (buggy) or that could be improved to make the tool easier to use?
I learnt German, Spanish, Italian, French and swedish only using ChatGPT no other tools or even do any course
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That's unbelievable 🤯
WoW bro
I use ChatGPT to learn english and now I'm starting to learn serbian, I ask to ChatGPT to give an explanation about grammar and about some words. And if there any new word I ask to chatgpt to make a story with these new words. I think that ChatGPT is a great resource to learn any language, because it creates content that is very hard to find. For example, if I can't find any book Serbian-Portuguese (my native language), I'll request a help from ChatGPT and it makes possible to learn any language.
Ola! Zdravo! Im learning Portuguese now and Im Serbian. It would be good to connect so we can help each other. Obrigado. 😊
I'm also trying to learn Serbian. I tried some apps but I wasn't satisfied with those. I'll for sure give a chance to ChatGPT now.
Muito bom 👏👏
Pametno si odlučio da učiš srpski, jer taj jezik razume barem 20 miliona ljudi na Balkanu, a možeš delimično da se sporazumevaš i sa 10 miliona Bugara, a pomalo i sa Česima, Slovacima, Poljacima i Ukrajincima. Ruski je možda i najudaljeniji od srpskog što se tiče izgovora.
@@goranvuletic8873 Srpski, Ruski i Poljski ako znas, mozes da slobodno komuniciras sa celim Slovenskim svetom…ne vidim poentu da neki uci nesto drugo, osim naravno ako zivi tamo, ili mu je partner odatle, i slicno.
I'm French, and I use ChatGPT in different ways to learn Chinese. You can try prompts like:
- "Write 5 sentences in Hanzi using HSK1-level vocabulary. Then I will tell you what I think they mean, and you will check my translations."
- "I'm a beginner in Chinese, and I want to chat with you in Chinese. Ask me questions using simple words and correct me if I make mistakes."
- "Here is a list of words. For each word, write a sentence replacing the word with ???? ''. Present the sentences in random order." (Variant: choose 5 HSK3-level words and write sentences replacing the word with ???? '').
- "Give me 5 examples of how the word '___' is used."
- "From the following list of words, create an Anki cards .csv file with Hanzi + Pinyin on the front of each card and an example sentence using that word (only in Hanzi) on the back, so I can guess the meaning."
Thanks so much for the mention Steve! 🙏 I’m a big fan of your channel. I definitely agree talking to a tutor is much more enjoyable. I wonder if for some people it might help get them ready to have a basic conversation without any social pressure. It’s certainly a useful tool.
I didn't mean to be critical. You got me thinking about Chat GTP and we all use it in different ways.
@@Thelinguist Not at all! I love your ideas on using it
In a few months, after OpenAI releases the advanced voice mode, which is incredible, nobody will need a tutor.
@@cortomaltese5545 We don't fully realise the extent to which AI is going to change things
@@ThelinguistMr grumpy.
I had ChatGPT write pages of a story in a style like Dracula at a B1 level. It actually was pretty fun
I have asked it to write a 500 word story only using the top 1000 words in Language. And give me the same story but in English. Tadaa, bilingual simple text. I love it.
Wow, the 1k word summary is a great idea thanks for sharing, I'm going to start importing a lot of summaries into Lingq.
In my experience, ChatGPT works best when you're in the A2-B1 range. With Portuguese, I was at a high A2 level, which wasn’t enough to have meaningful conversations with most people. But using ChatGPT’s conversation feature helped a ton. It speaks clearly, a little slower, and uses simpler vocabulary than an average person, plus you get instant feedback. It’s great if you’re not looking to pay for a tutor up until about the B2 level. I recently tested at B2 in Portuguese, and honestly, the robot conversations feel too simple now-I don’t get much out of them. But for my next language, I’m sure I’ll rely on ChatGPT again when I hit the later beginner stage.
Hi! Any original tips on how to make the most out of ChatGPT? Or you just talk about anything with it? Thankss
You don't need chatgpt's text, at this rate, you can watch TV shows and search for meaningful real content. I recommend animations, because the dialogue is clear, as it's recorded in a special studio, and Brazilian voice actors are the best in the world (search for Guilherme Briggs).
ChatGPT can still help you at more advanced levels, if you ask themes and give your essays for it to correct.
Really? I’m a C1 in French, and I find that ChatGPT works wonders for ANY level - you just need the right prompts or a bit more creativity. Or maybe that’s because I’m using the advanced model.
@@FanofChantelle you payed for the last version? What is it like?
I agree.yeah it is so far not smart enough to cover all the level. I am B1 German and using it really helps me a lot for my listening, bsc I am also so afraid of talking people on the street and cannot understand them on the first try..
I use ChatGTP to make simpler versions of difficult text in my target language.
This is very nice as it allows me to understand and appreciate fragments of original Literature.
For instance, today I wanted to read a bit from Erasmus' Mora Encomiae (Praise of Stupidity) in Latin. Yet, my level is not so advanced yet. I only understand more or less 2500 words. So what I do is
* I first ask to give me a simpler slightly summarized version of the original text only using simple vocabulary to get the main jist
* next I ask a sentence by sentence rendition in simpler language but truthful to the original sentence, which I then study sentence by sentence together
This works fabulously, it expands my vocabulary immensely without that I have to resort to translation to English or my mother tongue and I can appreciate the beauty of the original text and how much better it is than simplifications
Wow I thought I was the only one that does this . I’ll type “Write me a typical conversation with a native French speaker and a beginner French learner with English translation and key vocab”(this helps me get an idea on what to expect when communicating with native speakers as a foreigner practicing my French as well as learning key vocab)
That's a good idea, I haven't heard of that angle before.
Unrelated, but I like your picture lol.
@@cwash08 Yeah man I started messing around with It ever since and it’s been very helpful. Appreciate It man ;)
Cool fact: you can have it create those summaries or write essays and then have it read it to you in the language you’re learning. Super cool! Thank you for this video Steve.
ChatGPT is great honestly, I'm currently learning Russian and I can ask ChatGPT to generate stories for A1 level, A2, B1 etc... and it does.
It helps me memorize words and I train my reading skills.
It is very good.
It can also explain me quite easily things I don't get instantly, differences between Зачем and Почему, things like that.
it is really good.
I use ChatGPT (Bing) to understand Chinese. I will copy a Bible verse(s) in Chinese and ask for a translation. Then I’ll ask why certain words are used and other words that could have been used. ChatGPT gives excellent explanations within the context of the verse. It also helps that I know the English for the verses. This helps avoid any errors in translations or grammatical errors.
hello! your video just popped up and while i was watching i got surprised that you've been learning turkish! it's so inspiring to see my native language! good luck with learning turkish it's one of the richest languages in the world!
Amazing tool. You can also ask it to translate into English after each sentence and even translate sentences into multiple languages at once.
I prefere dialogs and linguistics. My prompt for the last few days was: "Let's continue our imaginary conversation between Dr Stephen Krashen and a Chinese learner who is at B2 level and learning for over 10 years. Write the conversation in Chinese, hanzi only, make it long. The learner now has the question: ..." You can use this in the same chat and that way it will have some memories about the old topics and will connect to it.
What helps a lot with learning is this: Ask it to practice with you and use sentences in all tenses to test you with a variety of verbal and grammar. Then, prompt it to tell you the sentence in your native language, and then you respond in your learning language to test yourself. You can prompt it also to shorten, lengthen, or increase the learning level of the sentences. This will help someone who is ready to start speaking and can already understand (hear) the language they're learning.
Later, get get your pencil and notebook out and go over the chat log questions. Test yourself by going over the same questioned sentences and write them out, while at the same time correcting your errors learned with the speech practice. I recommend paying for the upgraded plus version to have access to the better chat bot and increased speaking time to not run out.
Steve Bey çok güzel bir videoydu..Ufuk açıcı güzel bilgiler verdiniz.. ayrıca Türkçe'ye göstermiş olduğunuz ilgi ve alaka da bizleri mutlu ediyor.. dil çalışmalarınızda başarılar diliyorum
I watched the same video and since then I'm using it even more intensely. For English it's awesome, but for other languages it works good as well, maybe with a few mistakes here and there. For me the life saviour is it can explain any aspect of any target language, say Chinese, directly in Greek✨ I cannot underline enough how big of a difference that makes!
Also, not a great fan of "self-help" books, but Elif Shafak is really great. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World is a fantastic book to have a better look into the Turkish society.
I've started recently to refresh my grammar with ChatGPT, for example give me opportunity to practice 'so', 'such', 'such a', 'no such', 'so long time', such a long time' etc. Everytime you'll exposed to a new example etc. It's better than our paper workbook with a few that same examples all the time.
This was super eye opening for me thank you so much Steve! I've been learning Italian for over a year and going off of what you support (C.I) but my interest is in films, very niche esoteric foreign films and it's hard to find a lot of articles or reviews about the films I enjoy. I just tried chatgpt and asked it to write a review of the 1970 Italian film Il Conformista and it worked like a charm. Thank you again Steve I'll be using it a lot more now.
I use ChatGPT to learn Spanish and Japanse language. ChatGpt was created for me lessons with vocabulary dialogue and common used phrases
I use ChatGPT to create graded readers for me in the languages I'm studying, but it hadn't occurred to me to import them to LingQ! Definitely gonna have to do that going forward!
Thanks, Steve! Since I am so busy writing my novel, it's been hard to learn a language fluently. But if I'm ever studying a language, it's usually Japanese or German!
Great idea! Thanks for giving a hint to it. Just for a try I've asked GPT to write the summary for Roald Dahl's "Matilda" in Estonian. And then the the word-to-word translation. And it gave the answer in no time. And also produced a rather good audio. 👍
Just the video I needed. Many thanks, Steve!
Thank you Steve. This just brought me to another level of learning
Gracias por la información! Te admiro mucho y sería un sueño para mi, ser políglota como tú algún día... por ahora estoy tratando de aprender inglés sin morir en el intento... 😅
Veamos que nos trae el tiempo...
I hadn't thought of this! I use Claude but will function in the same way so I'll give it a go.
Of course if you are desperate to listen to it then there are ok TTS options out there.
For interesting stories I would recommend Claude (3.5 Sonnet), because it’s better at creative writing.
And ChatGPT is the better choice for summaries etc.
Kıymetli Steve Bey, merhaba. Emeğinize sağlık 💚 güzel video yapmışsınız, bravo. Videonun konusu da çok güzel!
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Hello, I had been using ChatGPT learning Turkish for more than 1 year. I created several chats, based on Collocations in use and Frequency dictionaries.
I found ChatGPT very helpful.
Also I use it to find synonyms. I use also Quizlet (I found another apps a little bit difficult).
My level in Turkish is B1 at least. And I recommend to use artificial intelligence.
Also I work with lexics, I create different structures, I mean I create some topic lists. But I always use lexical approach as a method of studying. I learn mostly collocations and chunks.
Waiting forward for another videos.
Chatgpt has been my best teacher ever
ChatGPT is seriously amazing!
Chat GPT is extremely potent for language learning. I like to ask it to provide a story or a short text in my target languages where every sentece is followed by a translation between parenthesis, thus creating parallel text. I also ask it about word usage and certain grammar points. If you don't have access to a teacher, ChatGPT is the way to go.
Agreed, I do a similar thing. What bothers me though is that the stories I get are too stupid and tacky for my taste. Any ideas how to get quality stories?
@@Reflekt0r So, since I'm interested in mythology, I asked GPT to tell me stories from Norse Mythology in German. I usually ask for retellings of famous stories.
The mistakes of ChatGPT is kind of good for you in the way that forces you to double check and delve deeper. So you understand whys snd hows.
I ask ChatGPT to write a short story using new words, which I write down from the book I read. Usually I write them in my notebook with a translation and a context to repeat in certain intervals, and recently started to process them with ChatGPT. I give it a list of words, ask it to use them one by one in a sequence provided (otherwise it goes astray and uses them randomly and may skip many words), also prompt it to highlight these new words in bold and I also give some short plot related to the book to retain some resemblance of the concocted story with a book (the affinity depends on the prompt - I don't make it detailed). So with 20-40 words, it makes an A4 page of meaningful text to provide a better context for learned words; it is easy to learn and repeat.
Interesting, I do a similar thing. What bothers me though is that the stories I get are too stupid and tacky for my taste. Any ideas how to get quality stories?
@@Reflekt0r I see your point. Sometimes the narration is too simplistic, but I don't aspire to make it entertaining. In fact, the strange, stupid situations can be even more memorable - it is known from mind-map tutorials, or you can know it from the pop-culture when you can't get rid of a silly song out of your mind, you can add some other conditions in the prompt that may impact your perception (some personal, scary or sexy stuff for example).
But if you really want to add more meaning to the text, it might be achieved with more intricate prompting and/or more advanced models (like GPT on the Pro account or free larger models elsewhere - HuggingFace). I tried the latter - Llama 450G but didn't notice the difference with my usual prompt, and this model also tends to skip words from the list. Probably the good promt is more effective measure even with a moderate model, but I haven't explored this way since I'm satisfied with current results.
So it's more about "prompt engineering" which quickly becomes an industry, but some easy tips you can find here
help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-for-prompt-engineering-with-the-openai-api
I use ChatGPT to generate content in Arabic dialects that are difficult to find in written form, primarily Egyptian Arabic. I ask it to generate the type of content I'm interested in (History for example). You can ask it to generate the texts at various degrees of difficulty:
""Could you please create an introduction to the history of Egypt in Egyptian dialect, tailored for a beginner student trying to learn this dialect?"
You can also request it to generate the same content in the present, past, and future tenses. Asking for the past or future tense is particularly interesting if you already have the audio for one version of the text but would like to see it in different tenses.
I actually do find that asking for specifications for language in ChatGPT is very helpful, especially if you are a fairly new to the language. It can use the CEFR for generating level-based content fairly skillfully (in my experience), and having it generate material closer to your own level seems quite in line with Comprehensible Input. That way I'm not encountering so many unfamiliar words, thus making it overly difficult and causing me to lose interest.
ChatGPT is the masterpiece and is essential for learning languages
I use chatgpt to learn japanese and it is better than any other resource for gramma and understanding vocabulary. Already at N1 content after 9 months.
That so cool, i just started using it this weekend to help me with my japanese learning.
I ask to analyse sentences for me and break them down among other things. Can you give me some prompts, advice or anything.
P.S As much as possible. I won't be burdened by it.
@@deseanlothianHey I’m not learning Japanese (I’m learning French) but what I’ll do is type out a command saying ….. ‘write me a typical conversation involving a native French speaker and French learner with English translation and vocab’ this helps me with reading comprehension; so I’ll naturally build my vocabulary, I’ll have more of an idea on what to expect when speaking with native speakers because they’ll use common phrases , I’ll get key vocabulary that could be very essential , and of course English translations! I hope and pray the very best for your language learning journey my man, keep going the language is yours .
@@Cjust15 No problem, thanks much. I hope your language learning continues being fruitful.
@@deseanlothian Nothing special really, I do not use any particular prompts.
What I do most of the time is to look up words I mined into my Anki deck, because the JP-EN dictionary is complete crap and often times it is not clear how the word is used or what it means and sometimes the dictionary is just flat out wrong. Transitivity as a concept was also not clear to me and it was really helpful to dig deep into it with chatgpt. Same goes for very basic stuff like は/が and particles in general which most people only seem to have extremely confusing or incomplete explanations for.
I also use it to generate some tests so I can get a better understanding on what I have to improve on to accelerate my progress, right now it is about multi layered descriptive clauses.
Just be careful that chatgpt can sometimes contradict itself or get confused when you ask about more complicated grammatical concepts.
@@jzo1414 Indeed chat gpt is not perfect, but no tool is.
I've done studying on は/が as well. Before i had many incomplete explanations and used my intuition. Until i found a video recently from Jouzu Juls and it was perfect.
(He is really good at explaining, editing, and he uses legitimate concepts and stuff seen in linguistics; however he doesn't actually have much videos, quite the shame.)
The absolute difference it makes when you actual understand stuff like sentence structure, は/が for like topic and subject.
My reading is alot slower right now, since i just started understanding these grammar.
But instead of reading, and only getting just the readings. Im actually understanding everything in my immersion. It's amazing.
I might need to review transitivity again.
As well.
Anyways, I get the gist of how you use it. Thanks alot. Your advice will help me alot.
All the best to you.
(sorry for the long reply, I tend to yap.)
It is indeed a good idea to use chatGPT for creating lessons. I tried using Wikipedia articles as lessons but they are too complicated for beginners and too long (Soviet Union article in Russian). So I will try using chatgpt to either simplify the article or let gpt create something on its own.
Thanks for this video, Mr. Kaufmann.
Thank you Steve✊🏼 good advice 👍
This has been brilliant. Thank you.
As for the amount of unique words: I've been reading this month some books in some languages that I'm learning, putting them into the tool to separate the unique words, and, I need to say, I've noticed how misleading it can be. For example, there is a book in French called "La Dame en Blanc," which in total (and I'm talking about the first word appeared in the book until the literal last word) have 231,220 words, of which just around 17,000 are unique. Martin Luther King's biography, one that I'd read in English, even mentioned the other day, has within the same analysis, the total around of 131,000 words, of which around 13,200 are unique. Furthermore, "Fables", a French book, exactly 7,123 total words of which 2,205 are unique.
For that reason, I suspect when I see those counters showing "oh, you've been in contact with 30,000 unique words". It looks like too much. It may be not true, not even close to that, and rather, way lower than that. Because it depends on how it's been counting, what the algorithm considers a word or does not. And by far, it seems that the algorithm considers somehow more words than it actually is.
Hi, i'm a big fan of your videos and I have been learning a lot of from them, but lately I have seen that the subtitles have a little delay respect the video, and that makes dificult the process. So please check this little issue for future videos. Thanks!!! Soy de Colombia y he aprendido mucho con tu canal quiero seguirlo haciendo.
Anch'io ho notato questo fastidioso problema con i sottotitoli.
Yet another excellent and motivating video. Thank you. And more very good suggestions in the comments.
I’m a Spanish teacher for English speakers and ChatGPT is our best ally. I only help when AI can’t or makes mistakes.
I use chatgpt by asking it to make me translate a sentence in the target language, and explain where I made mistakes, and after that it will ask me to translate another sentence and so on.
Thanks Steve! Great advice.
A few hours before this was posted it occurred to me I could get comprehensible input for a ton of random kanji by asking chat gpt for a lot of sentences with kanji and parallel kana & English translations & then you post about ChatGPT for language learning 😅
Give it a try but best to define a subject matter of interest to you.
Could you please describe what you do on lessons with tutor? Let's say in a language where you already have B1/B2. Is it more about debating on interesting topics or something else?
Thank you master, this video is great help for all us ❤🎉
How are these summaries different from stories? Essentially it seems to me chatgpt can bridge the gap between beginner or intermediate (A2 B1 B2) to advanced (C1 C2) so that one may start to read native content. I find its stories very repetitive but I guess it's much better than nothing. A very useful tool.
You can determine the content, and therefore the vocabulary range. Mostly though I use natural material in the target language.
Awesome! Thanks Steve!
Muito obrigado grande mestre!
Interesting thoughtful video! But how exactly have you been able to measure your own "Known Words Vocabulary"?
Great idea!
very gratefully mr steve , ı totally agree yours opınıons and tıps :)
Oh hey! I saw that video!
I am always a bit worried about the quality of the support for different languages. Not sure if ai tools are that reliable already, especially the generalists like chatgpt. It's just meant to sound nice, not necessarilyto be a good source of information.
Hello Steve how's it's going? Great weekend for Sir. See you next.
yes! its brilliant!!
Well, it's good
You're awsome man.
Very good ideas. As with previous videos, your subtitles are out of sync with your audio. They start out in sync but as the video progresses, it gets more and more off. Please fix.
Confermo il bug dei sottotitoli
For French language too
Sorry Mr. Steve. The subtitles in the video are a little out of sync. I don't know if it's a TH-cam problem, but it was a bit confusing to follow what you said by reading the subtitles.
I upload pages of the books I'm reading. I ask gpt read them than we have a discussion in the end it provides a feedback about my English
I wonder if there's a way to give GPT a document of all your words in LingQ and their level, having it create stories or summaries with your optimal amount of new and recognized words.
I'm starting think to use this thing call chat gpt
Off topic, but what would it take to make LingQ group words by lemma, at least as an option? I get that for some distant languages you want to treat every form of a word as a new word to be learned, but for Romance languages where you have already learned the grammar, it takes a tedious amount of reading to get to a point where LingQ is caught up with your own vocabulary. This is the single biggest thing that keeps me from using LingQ as much as I’d like to.
终生学习、继续教育 😊了不起啊
Please send me the link ,which chatgpt u were using
I have been doing this for a while and I will say it is excellent for english and german, but pretty bad for mandarin. It nomally makes sense for mandarin but will often say complete gibberish.
Does the lingq app also have Egyptian Arabic?
So, any plans to bring AI to LingQ? I think there are several use cases for it.
We are already using AI to improve a number of features and working on more
LingQ audio is ai for the mini-stories of any text you import. Quality is pritty good. You can also change the speed without changing the pitch.
Claude is better imo
Is there a Brazilian here learning English that would like to language swap on the phone? I do a lot of reading and writing and w decent amount of listening daily but I never get to speak and I just want to talk on the phone in portuguese with a Brazilian
How would you teach a language in a classroom?
Merhaba. Ben bir lise öğrencisiyim. Bana vermek istediğiniz birkaç nasihat varmı?
Sizin gibi bilgili birinden nasihat almayı çok isterim! Teşekkürler!
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I may try this but I think I have to ask in my target language, because I've tried asking it in English and it replies with a terrible American accent.
One thing to note is that while ChatGPT is excellent at explaining grammar and giving enlightening examples, it is absolutely horrid at etymology. If you ask it any etymological question, there is, as of September 2024, almost no chance that the output won't be nonsensical garbage.
4:08 how about German?
It does perfect German
2:22 in ruzzian? for what?
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Chat GPT does not work well at all for languages which have more than one form - stylistic/dialectal variation, such as Arabic or Welsh. The erroneous assumption is there is one single standard form which needs to be taught.
Asking AI to write in a foreign language is simply substitution of English words by foreign words while mainly retaining the English grammar. As such, you are missing all of the tricky elements like particles and idiomatic ways of expressing yourself in that language. For example, if I need the next sentence to start with 'table', in English I would perhaps write, 'The Table was set by Anita.' But in Lithuanian, I would write 'The table set Anita.' (with table in the accusative and Anita in the nominative.) AI will not catch that difference.
I use these to acquire more known words. They ae not my go to reading or listening material.
@@Thelinguist I prefer not to waste time with fake grammar and to practice words with real grammar. Each author uses his or her own specific vocabulary, not a generic vocabulary. But to be more precise, English speaks of isobars and air pressure, Lithuanian of cyclones and anticyclones. Thus, ChatGPT does not talk about the latter unless you ask it to define the terms. And I just tried that last week with the free v. 4.
This is simply false. You can prompt chatGPT to scrape the internet for anything. I have personally forced chatGPT to alter grammatical structure simply by prompting it to do. Your statement is correct if you do nothing to specialize the request. Your statement is wrong if you spend extra time personalizing your experience.
I just tried 2 different lists, dairy terms and then dairy products (30 most common of each). Neither list contained the word surelis even though it is a major product here. Why? Because it translates as quark, which is not sold in the US or UK, only NE Europe. It even uses the less popular translation of blue cheese. That it starts lists listing cheese types when it has not listed all of the dairy product types is very telling.
Actually, that's not quite true. Many language translation tools do as you say, but ChatGPT is different. GPT uses idioms appropriate to the target language. For example, I use it to translate tricky passages from the books I'm reading and I often have to ask it for a more literal translation because the version it produced first was full of English idioms that I know were not part of the original text. In fact, using it to identify idioms in the source material has been a game changer for me.
DONT!!!!!! Learn the languages with the chatgpt. I did it and literally 30% of his "translations" were completely bullshit. E.g. I told him to list me the numbers 1 to 50 in syrian arabic. I told him he should write them how theyre actually pronounced and also in arabic. It said so much wrong stuff. I told him his mistakes and told him he should write again. He literally made the same altough I just told him. If I didnt knew what the numbers were I would have learned a bunch of shit. In arabic ashara means ten and 8 means tmani. 18 means tmin ta'ash. It told me its tmin w ashar (trans. to 10 and eight). And that happened very often even if I let him correct him 10 times it still was there and everytime he assured me that it is right.