Using Chatgpt as talking partner for language learning, Duolingo "video call" feature comparison and strategies for LLM self teaching sessions.
So I started using the video calls feature on Duolingo but found it lacking at the level i'm at... It is way too constrained, repetitive and boring (which might work for the early stages of language learning but not so much for more advanced stages).
So i thought to try Chatgpt but while it's a much more capable conversation partner i found many of the same technical issues. Mainly that it would not let me finish my sentences or thoughts before breaking in with a response and oftentimes misunderstanding some of the words i say and hallucinating random things (though that's not so important for the sake of simply practicing retrieval which is the whole point... Maybe even a plus because you need to improvise and find vocabulary in unexpected contexts... debatable i guess).
I tried prompting it to only answer when i say "over to you" in english but that's apparently impossible (even though it obviously insists that from now on it will abide by the prompt, consistently failing...).
Am i missing some option or is there any workaround for this?
Anyone else coming up with similar use cases strategies? Please share!
So i reverted to simple chatting... Which works amazingly. Especially promoting it to highlight and translate difficult words, correct my sentences to a more natural native word choice etc, introduce new vocab and keep the conversation rolling.
Then getting creative at the end of the session with story building using the material we talked about as summary or suggesting exercises for my most common mistakes etc...
I'm loving the novelty and challenge of making up my own study material and i'm sure many people are doing similar things... I'd love to hear any thoughts, strategies, experiences or advice!
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