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If you have a ChatGPT subscription, set up your own GPT with prompting around your level, how you want it to respond, how to correct mistakes etc. Then you can use it for anything - Generate tests based on words you know, roleplay like ordering in a restaurant, write stories and have it correct grammar.

This is what I have to supplement my Chinese and it is incredibly helpful.

Look at the comments already - Everyone is building a simple wrapper to do this very thing but charge you $20 per month for the privelege. These are souless, most likely vibe coded garbage. Avoid.

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SchemaLoad 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

You don't even need a subscription, just start the conversation with something like "I'm trying to learn x, I'm at a beginner skill level. Can you have a conversation with me and correct my mistakes." and it works superbly.

The Duolingo CEO copped a lot of criticism for it, but I think he is right that LLMs play a huge role in the future of education, though he probably ragebaited everyone by overselling it and calling teachers babysitters. But ChatGPT as it is now is a better language learning tool than their hand crafted app is. Rather than clicking on word blocks, you can actually have a free form conversation and get feedback like "Yes your sentence is understandable but sounds unnatural, you could try ___"

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huhtenberg 4 days ago | parent [-]

Duolingo CEO just went on record to say that all future language teaching will be AI, but physical schools and teachers will continue to exist "to provide childcare".

That is a very polarizing way to phrase it.

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rahimnathwani a day ago | parent | next [-]

Imagine public schools in San Francisco were to offer parents a deal: we'll increase the median student's rate of academic progress by 30%, but we'll also cut school hours by 30%.

Do you think people would vote overwhelmingly for that deal?

My suspicion is that they would not. For politicians, 'providing childcare' and 'providing employment for unionized government employees' are both more important than student learning.

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jajko 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Luckily for teachers and schools in general, (foreign) language skills are just a small part of overall school curriculum and the higher you go the more this becomes true. LLMs not taking that part away anytime soon.

	▲	rahimnathwani a day ago \| parent [-]
		Why is it lucky for schools? Are you suggesting that school leaders should care more about their institutions' continued existence than about student outcomes?

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jajko 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For the LLMs uninitiated - I checked and ChatGPT Plus costs 20$/month, which puts it into same category as those services others build. Is this what you meant by having a subscription?

If I don't use ChatGPT for other purposes it seems like same prices to me, without the hassle of setting it up and tweaking. Or am I missing something?

	▲	HPsquared 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of HN users already have subscriptions to one of these LLM services.

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drakonka 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I want to practice speaking and last time I checked Advanced Voice Mode was not available in custom GPTs - is that still the case? Advanced Voice made a really big difference to conversational practice for me, but I do feel like I need to wrap it in a custom knowledge base/instructions to make it as useful as it could be for my language practice.

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rjh29 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You can also share them, e.g. someone made a specialised ChatGPT for korean:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-erkTp2LNZ-learn-korean-with-gpt

I'm not sure how it works though. Just a canned prompt?