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jeffwass 4 days ago

Did you just add Dutch as per the submitter’s request or was it part of your plan prior?

Curious because I’m trying to learn Romanian, and since it’s a less common language there are fewer resources available. So I wasn’t sure if you added Dutch with minimal amount of effort following the poster’s request.

That said, I gave your app a try with Spanish and it looks pretty good! But I didn’t see a Help page to clarify how I’m “supposed” to interact. Eg I tried saying in English “I don’t understand” (even though I know how to say that in Spanish) and it responded in Spanish which may be hard for absolute beginners. Although full immersion is much better way to learn.

I can try playing around more with it to give you some feedback.

iLoveOncall 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Eg I tried saying in English “I don’t understand” (even though I know how to say that in Spanish) and it responded in Spanish which may be hard for absolute beginners.

I tried to use ChatGPT as a "live" translator with my in laws and I noticed it is extremely bad at language "consistency" or at understanding your intent when it comes to multiple languages.

It will sometimes respond in English when you talk to it in the foreign language, it will sometimes assume that a clear instruction like "repeat the last sentence" needs to be translated, etc.

I don't know how the person above is approaching the problem but your experience is consistent with mine and I don't think GenAI models (at least OpenAI ones) are suitable for the task.

jc4p 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I just added Romanian for you -- here's the entire diff for adding a new language (as long as it's in OpenAI's training data) -- https://images.kasra.codes/romanian_diff.png

Please let me know if it works, and I'll definitely work on adding in instructions for the expected interactivity, thank you!