Hi all, I'm a software dev learning Spanish and was unimpressed by the apps I've tried. I didn't find the spaced repetition apps very helpful, but I also didn't investigate very much into paid apps.
Chatgpt will be really useful for language learning and there is an API for building it into apps which will change the landscape IMHO
If you were to build a language learning app, what would you want in it?
Input:
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writing with feedback about word choice.
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vocabulary with sections for cognates and false cognates, regular and irregular, etc. which I find to be some of the harder words.
- spaced repetition. Possibly made cleverer with chatgpt incorporating words into real phrases or conversations
- chatgpt to incorporate the words youre learning into sentences
- "improve my sentence" button that shows three levels of improvement. (Eg. You write: I went to the market today, and it prints (1) I went to the market today (2) I explored a local market today, sampling items along the way (3) I ventured out into the world today, stopping at a market to search for goods and houseware.)
Output:
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daily writing prompt with feedback
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daily speaking prompt with feedback
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abstract goals: eg. "Rewrite that sentence with more variety in your descriptive adjectives" "rewrite that story as if it were taking place in the jungle instead of a restaurant"
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Repetition for higher-level conversations, not just single words. (Eg. Answering "How was your day?")
Random:
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speak with other people (eg. Tandem like community)
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news sources in target language
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3D worlds for walking around and seeing items or having conversations in your target panguage with real people or AI agents. Meteorites obliterate anybody who uses english
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a personal tutor
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fast. no "NICE JOB!!!" feedbacks
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the app is literally nothing but a conversational interface that guides you magically and has no other features
Personal analytics:
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graphs and metrics and visualizations about word usage in my writing/speaking/output sessions (eg. Word usage over time, mistakes made in the past tense over time).
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graphs about actual word use in the target languages (eg. You know enough words to read 80% of news articles)
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specific tips based on population analysis, eg. you say "que pasó" when most native speakers say "que ha pasado"
Be greedy about what features would be cool even if they aren't feasible features (ie what could exist in 20 years), this is just hypothetical
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