AI approaches to learning and practicing language?

Question

I've been interested in learning and being exposed to many languages as a hobby, and it seems to me that LLMs are an extremely good fit as a tutor, especially for high-resource languages.Are there language learning platforms, or projects, that have, say, conversing with an AI in various scenarios or writing in a particular register as the primary mode of instruction (or as the core product)?Alternatively, what are your experiences with using general purpose LLMs for such a task, and what would you suggest to optimize for fun and learning? E.g. maintaining a basket of scenarios, prompts to ask the AI to reword something in how a native speaker would express it, drilling down or translating something you don't understand.

raidicy · Accepted Answer

I use this prompt with chat GPT and A plug in that will do text to speech. I find just having some suggestions allow me to help formulate my own response. I use Windows 11 built in speech to text and verbally speak the options so it helps reinforce patterns for the language.
prompt: I need you to simulate a Japanese conversation in a normal setting where you play the ai and I'll be the player. The player is given three options to respond in Japanese. The player may enter the number of the response or enter their own response and the ai will respond to that. If you understand give me a brief greating in Japanese AND the players first turn
> ChatGPT said: > ChatGPT > わかりました！こんにちは、元気ですか？今日はどうでしたか？
> Player's first turn options:
> 1 はい、元気です！今日は忙しかったけど楽しかったです。 > 2 あまり元気じゃないです、ちょっと疲れました。 > 3 今日はとてもいい天気ですね！ > ...
You can tweak the prompt to include any of the specifications that you listed in your post. There just might be some trial and error. I think there are some paid platforms on the Android,but this is what works for me.