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  • And as we say, _c'est bien de la merde_.

    Watch movies and listen to people if you want grammar to stick. Languages are living things. Not something you practice in a bubble with Anki and Duolingo.

    by well_ackshually
  • This seems an odd choice if your ultimate goal is speaking French to people who know French
    by glaslong
  • Wow That Is Fantastic And I Am So Glad To Hear It, You Have Really Put In A Lot Of Effort!
    by bigbluedots
  • We've all seen how LLMs write, imagine someone who talks like that.
    by stuaxo
  • I am doing something similar but mix more simpler and didn’t even get to the stage of building an llm tool. I am just using ChatGPT to distill common learning books and set aside 1 hr thrice a week. I made considerable progress, to me and then I used Italki to confirm.

    I used voice mode on ChatGPT to learn the tones for mandarin, and general vocab and sentence structure while for Japanese it helped me expand proper sentence structure greatly.

    It sounds silly, but it helped reenforce a base structure that is helpful and having it confirmed by a tutor was nice. Best is I can really do it whenever. What op posted does sound next stage, and I can imagine it’d be a viable platform.

    I don’t suggest notebookllm to make an audiobook, I tried and it was the most dryest speech I ever heard. It did sound convincing enough if you were to do a podcast for it and that is what it does.. but it was completely horrid for learning but maybe that’s just me.

    by rootsudo
  • I think the author would have had a better reception without the triumphant “canceled French tutor” framing. The juxtaposition of “learning a language” with “cutting out the human element” is very off-putting.
    by olivierestsage
  • LLMs surely can help with language learning, but when they write posts like this, the zombie/body snatchers/borg effect is so strong as to be unreadable. Just write it yourself! You can do it! It will be better, please please stop generating bad boilerplate language with these fascinating algorithms, PLEASE!
    by bshepard
  • There’s an interesting disconnect here, where the author of this piece apparently wants to learn French, and knows English, and they want to share how they went about learning French with an English audience.

    But despite being a native English speaker, they couldn’t be bothered to actually write the article themselves. What’s the point of learning a language - any language - if you’re not even going to use your own words like an adult?

    by solid_fuel

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