Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

Post by bongobingo1 » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 9:50 AM UTC

nemetroid wrote: post #158

bongobingo1 wrote: post #109

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IMO subtitles are not that effective as you brain just stays in read-mode and you don't actually process any of the spoken language. When most languages grammar are not 1:1, so hearing "house red is mine" but reading "my house is red" isn't helpful - more true with real sentences that tend to have more than 4 words in them. Language listening skills require a fair amount of attention and focus. Though I do think ther…

I think the person you're replying to means subtitles in the target language.

Post by kingofkyiv » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 11:55 AM UTC

Post by codeconscious » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

Morgawr wrote: post #243

esrh wrote: post #174

I'm stunned by how well this works for Japanese, the only language I think I'm good enough at to judge the AI's responses. The speech recognition is flawless as far as I can tell. The AI occasionally gets itself into a loop of repeating my question or itself, but I think this has been a problem with a lot of chatbots. The only glaring errors I've seen so far are these kinds of AI-specific issues, like forgetting cont…

Can't say I relate unfortunately, I had two conversations in Japanese and both of them were kinda weird. In the first one it even misunderstood my name and repeated it back at me (incorrectly), it looked like some Google translate mistranslation. In another one it asked me if it was okay to sit next to me and I replied with いや、遠慮しときます (which was marked as a "grammar mistake") and the AI just said ありがとうございます and "sat…

Post by zehaeva » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 3:53 PM UTC

__jambo wrote: post #209

zehaeva wrote: post #195

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Bear with me, I'm going to start with an analogous situation, and then tie it to this one. I play Go (the board game) at a fairly high level and have been participating in clubs and teaching Go for the better part of 15 years. The simplest and easiest way to get better is to play the game a lot, hopefully against someone a little bit better than you are. You don't even have to spend a ton of time on it, just play and…

You are generalising too much from one online community that has significantly different incentives because it is competitive and ranked and probably full of elitism. Have you been to any language meetups? I have. It's easy to find people. That's that. Still, whatever, I'm obviously not everyone. Good luck!

Post by Tepix » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 9:54 PM UTC

sebastiansm wrote: post #71

phpisatrash wrote: post #2

It really looks cool. But, why it doesn't have English? Or meybe if it does have, why isn't showed first? People who use language learning apps are focused in learning English most of the time. Still those who speak fluently are trying to improve their speaking and listening. And the first language which appeared for me was Brazilian Portuguese which is my mother language. [Edit] I was trying the Brazilian Portuguese…

Yeah. I been looking for a few months for services to improve my English in a cheap/free way. Until now some Discord channels have been my solution to practice conversation, but it would be nice to have this kind of service to speak anytime about any topic.