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Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor

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Post by ct271 »

Hey folks! I'm Callum, and I'm working on a way to practice a new language with an AI powered tutor.

I've always found that the hardest part of learning a new language is finding someone to actually converse with. Even if a partner can be found, the pressure can mean that you are more focused on not making mistakes than on actually learning new grammar or vocabulary.

The service that I have been working on allows you to practice with a language tutor via online chat messages, or you can have a turn-based voice conversation.

I'm working on a number of other features that will be coming out shortly, including a few games for practising pronunciation and listening skills, as well as a plan to release some lesson plans for specific languages later on.

Have a try, and let me know if you have any feedback!

Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor
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Post by samuraixp »

Pretty cool, I had a little chat in german and then the last translate button wouldn't work, the chat disappeared after I clicked around the rest of the interface. Main thing that seems missing is there is no feedback on the grammar and spelling or things that should be said, so perhaps you need a second model + prompt to analyse the inputs of the user in relation to the conversation and critique it as a language teacher in terms of spelling, grammar and contextual relevance, suggesting an alternative that the teacher would have said?

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Post by zubairq »

samuraixp wrote: post #3

Pretty cool, I had a little chat in german and then the last translate button wouldn't work, the chat disappeared after I clicked around the rest of the interface. Main thing that seems missing is there is no feedback on the grammar and spelling or things that should be said, so perhaps you need a second model + prompt to analyse the inputs of the user in relation to the conversation and critique it as a language tea…

yes I agree. Pretty cool. I had a chat in Danish, and it would have been good to get feedback on my spelling and grammar mistakes

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Post by TonyStr »

Very nice! I suspect a lot of people will be dismissive of this, same way people dismiss the usefulness of inaccurate tools such as Google translate for learning languages. Similarly to Google translate, though, I believe this can be very useful if the user remains critical of the output. It would not surprise me if this becomes a "must have" tool for language learning in the future. My only major complainants so far is that it doesn't support my main foreign language (Japanese), and that the website lacks mobile support, but I'm sure these are both planned for the future

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Post by TekMol »

Hey! Before I trust your site with my data - who are you?

Your HN account seems to have been created only to present this one project.

Do you have a website, or are you on Twitter or anything?

Who is the legal entitiy referred to in "© 2023 LearnLingo. All rights reserved."?

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Post by second_brekkie »

I make pretty heavy use of chat-gpt for language learning it's pretty good. But there's some overhead in tuning the prompting to get what you want, if this could cut down on that I'm interested.

I know this is a new product so it will come eventually, but the mobile experience is really bad, lots of people are gonna want to use this out and about, so it should at least be useable, atm it's not.

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Post by mufty »

zubairq wrote: post #4
samuraixp wrote: post #3

Pretty cool, I had a little chat in german and then the last translate button wouldn't work, the chat disappeared after I clicked around the rest of the interface. Main thing that seems missing is there is no feedback on the grammar and spelling or things that should be said, so perhaps you need a second model + prompt to analyse the inputs of the user in relation to the conversation and critique it as a language tea…

yes I agree. Pretty cool. I had a chat in Danish, and it would have been good to get feedback on my spelling and grammar mistakes

This is an extremely good suggestion. I hope the developers consider this feedback
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