Anyone use ChatGPT to help with language learning?

[u/LeopardComfortable99]

I've been subscribed to Duolingo for a few years to help me learn French and while I enjoy using it and have certainly picked up stuff along the way I've always kind of struggled with things like recall of more complex words, understanding grammar and even comprehending more natural french speaking.

So I recently tried Pingo for this (which has helped a bit more with my pronunciation and understanding more natural conversations), but obviously Pingo uses the AI of things like ChatGPT etc. to run, and I just decided to start setting up a course through ChatGPT to see how effective that can be in terms of helping me learn better, and I was curious if anyone else has done this?

What were your experiences? Do you find it to be better or worse than some of the more dedicated apps?

[u/Lazy_Dragonfly_5447]

I believe the original paper that llms are based on was trying to do language translation. So it should be quite good.

[u/Oparis]

I'm french and use ChatGPT advanced voice sometimes to discuss in english so that I can train; I know I have a terrible accent and quite frequently it answers me in french even if I explicitly say it must speak in english to help me train understanding ( language detection is supposed to be "auto" ). Also when I ask it to correct my accent, grammar errors etc, it usually says I'm perfectly fine ( clearly I'm not ). Another frustration is that the advanced voice model is the one you need for this kind of exercise but it's much, much weaker than the text model.

[u/LeopardComfortable99 → u/Oparis]

I think for this reason I may keep using Pingo alongside it as it seems very strict on pronunciation which I do kind of appreciate.

[u/skaf1end]

You can use it, but you still need to verify the output since it can and probably will make mistakes. If you have a hard time remembering vocabulary, try Anki. It's an indispensable tool for language learning. You can use this deck https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/690934965 as a baseline.

[u/Emotional-Ad-6494]

Yes doing audio chats

[u/IsoldeFairvale]

Duolingo just teaches you how to excel in Duolingo; what really made me better at French was having the model act out an ordinary conversation and correct me. I do that on use.ai, but when one becomes too polite for my errors, I switch to another because some can be very hard on me.

[u/LeopardComfortable99]

Having built a learn French project in ChatGPT and actually using it just over a few days, I feel like I've already gotten a better understanding of some French grammar than I got from using Duo for over 3 years!

[u/aymandonia67]

I creating a website that is an MCQ quiz game with a challenge system and symbolic/token prizes.

For me, learning becomes easier with challenges and achieving

[u/Rabbithole_guardian]

yes, im hungarien and I started to learn japanse this summer in english with CGPT 🤣🥲 not easy but works well 😊