However I think it would be more useful if the figure would say something that converts the user to the signup e.g. "Playtime is over, time to learn" and the button would turn into sign up as well.
Really like the idea. As someone who has been losing his limited spanish since college, I've been wanting something like this.
A couple pieces of feedback:
- It would be very useful to be able to get text translations of just one word at a time. Currently, I can give up entirely and have the whole message translated for me. But there's no way to just get help with the one word I can't remember the meaning of
- It would be very useful to be able to hide the text by default. I am interested in this app only because I am pretty bad at listening to spanish. That said, I am quite a bit better at reading it. Having the text always appear ruins my ability to practice listening
- The language selector at the top has 5 vertical bars that can be dark or not. I believe this might be a difficulty indicator? But it's not very clear
- When I speak some words are yellow. I assume this means my pronunciation was off leading the AI to not be very confident. That could also be a lot more clear
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I thought about adding one-word translations but didn't think about hiding the text completely. The difficulty selector is disabled right now, which can be confusing. Thanks for pointing it out.
Calling it now, learning a language this way will be called having an AIccent, where you speak the language well enough, but use unusual words and stilted phrases that only RHLF'ed LLMs do. Instead of saying "no", you'll say "As a large language model, I can't do that".
I wanted to try this, but I think you need to allow Chinese pinyin display instead of chinese characters for the chinese section as research shows that learning conversational chinese should happen before learning the characters. Without this change, I’m not really interested.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that the pinyin is the way to go for Chinese. Do you think you would still want to see the Chinese characters and have an ability to flip between two character versions?
Would it be useful for a friend of mine who mostly speaks Russian but wants to improve her English? Or is this solely intended for English speakers trying to learn other languages?
I second this. I tried it in Italian (my native language), it doesn't really make obvious mistakes but the phrasing is often awkward and robotic, and it tends to "overcorrect" sentences when in fact they are correct and idiomatic Italian.
It also somehow tried to convince me to visit Galleria Borghese in Rome to see Michelangelo's David and The Birth of Venus (they are in fact at the Galleria dell'Accademia and at the Uffizi respectively, in Florence). But I guess that's par for the course for LLMs.
The conversation I had was about lost luggage at the airport, and what it looked like, and what was next. That's a pretty adult conversation. I did not understand what the "next steps" were without the translation, but I guess I did okay with the rest.
I did it in Japanese, which had the added problem of not knowing what some of the words were, though I recognized more of them when I had it speak them out loud.
It's possible I'm just not ready for a tool like this, though.
Memrise has one. It's infuriatingly sensitive - calling something stupid is enough for it to give a long lecture about using positive language only, and then huffily ending the conversation. I use Claude over ChatGPT for work for similar reasons - Claude is far less likely to get "offended".
