I started out using duolingo a couple of years ago to learn Spanish. Although it had it flaws it did its job to teach me the basics of vocab and sentence structure. I then stopped doing duolingo because I got bored and the changes to the app made it increasingly difficult to make actual learning progress (I'd grind for hours to get past a single unit which was completely unnescessary)
That was enough to get me to speak some basics and whenever I get the chance I do speak spanish to people I meet or while travelling. Doing this made me improve quite a bit for how little I actually did it. It's just very akward because you constantly hit roadblocks in conversation due to lack of vocabulary.
I got back in to it a while ago and decided to try something new: I went on to chatgpt and just told it that it was now my personal tutor, what my estimated language level was and that I wanted to chat back and forth. Never did I think this little experiment would work so well.
Basically it just gives me some text to read, followed up by a question. Then I answer the question by writing a little text of my own. I don't fret over details, just write as I would speak (My goal is to be conversationally fluent and understandable, with the idea that perfect grammar will come from input and repetition, not from mulling over every word) The ai then corrects my sentence, gives me a new text and a new question. I do this for 30-60 minutes a couple of days each week.
it is free these days because chatgpt lets you infinitely chat, just not on the latest model. It effortlessly adjusts to the comprehensible input for your language. If you do have any questions, just interrupt the question to ask about the grammar and do some exercises.
I swear I've never improved so quickly with so little stress and effort.
I was already intermediate so I tried this out on a language I don't speak (german) and it works equally as good.
One caveat is that I think this works because I manage to do a lot very quickly since I'm not a perfectionist. I also already spoke a Germanic and Latin language which makes it a lot easier for me to understand sentence structure and guesstimate vocabulary in similar languages.
I'm hoping people will experiment with this and maybe give some updates on how well it works for them.
(TL) spanish
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