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This was so obviously LLM-authored that I stopped reading after just a couple of sentences. The author here has done themselves a disservice - mastering complex written grammar is meaningless if you cannot speak it or recognize spoken language. Interacting with a real French person for a few minutes should have been enough to cement this.
We've all seen how LLMs write, imagine someone who talks like that.
But despite being a native English speaker, they couldn’t be bothered to actually write the article themselves. What’s the point of learning a language - any language - if you’re not even going to use your own words like an adult?
Watch movies and listen to people if you want grammar to stick. Languages are living things. Not something you practice in a bubble with Anki and Duolingo.
There’s an interesting disconnect here, where the author of this piece apparently wants to learn French, and knows English, and they want to share how they went about learning French with an English audience. But despite being a native English speaker, they couldn’t be bothered to actually write the article themselves. What’s the point of learning a language - any language - if you’re not even going to use your own w…
I think the author would have had a better reception without the triumphant “canceled French tutor” framing. The juxtaposition of “learning a language” with “cutting out the human element” is very off-putting.
But, the learning writeups that lead with the "learning something new" part kind of feel better the those who put unnecessary emphasis on "canceled tutor". So, you get something inspiring like a book they can read now (and could not before), about podcast they understood (and could not before) or a little about successful small talk in French. I have no idea about what the author learned in what time.
We've all seen how LLMs write, imagine someone who talks like that.
This was so obviously LLM-authored that I stopped reading after just a couple of sentences. The author here has done themselves a disservice - mastering complex written grammar is meaningless if you cannot speak it or recognize spoken language. Interacting with a real French person for a few minutes should have been enough to cement this.
The only bit I thought could be LLM was:
> The gap in my tutoring setup wasn’t the quality of the instruction. It was two structural things.
Even here, the second sentence is quite weak, none of that stupid punchy sentence that LLM likes to copy from (probably) TED Talks because it thinks that'll make the text fucking profound.