Are you using some application of AI to help you on your language learning journey? The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3RNrirm My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com
Happy birthday Steve!!! You're getting wiser and more knowledgeable about language learning as you get older and thanks for sharing it to your subscribers. More birthdays to come and good health..
I think a tireless chatbot trained with a lot of real input could be very useful. You can tweak the chatbot to be extremely emotionally salient, mostly by having it agree with you. Having that bot map out and systematically expand your vocab could be great. Another use I can see is having your chat bot join conversations with you and a native speaker as sort of a more human-like interpreter. That way you can turn to your bot and ask for specific vocab or concepts. The bot could also instead of correcting you, reflect what you said better, which as a teacher I find much more useful than correcting.
I'd love a chatbot like this that I could speak to, as opposed to typing to, and have it speak back. It could be some sort of Language-teacher-bot, whose infinite time & patience would be desirable.
Happy birthday, Steve! Your ideas have been of great value for many years to my work as a teacher. I may not always agree entirely, but I have always profited from the challenge that you bring to my own understanding. Warm wishes. (And yes, LingQ is an important part of my personal study.)
Hey Steve! First off, Happy Birthday! I do machine learning for my profession and am a polyglot for pleasure. I have the goal to someday marry the two and focus on AI for languages. You mentioned some clear use cases of AI that are already in practice. But I think we can dream even bigger. Imagine if the AI knew every word you were exposed to in a target language by tracking all of the videos you watched, books read, etc. (obviously this is where ethical questions are raised about data acquisition in AI.) But having access to all this information would allow the AI to know exactly where your weaknesses were, what words you needed to review (think spaced repetition on steroids) and then would tailor a new short story, lesson plan, or even find authentic content rich in those areas you needed to study. No more tracking your own word lists and only counting words when you actively reviewed your flashcards. You would instead just be constantly watching/listening to content that was exactly what you needed to hear in that moment. 😮🤯
I've actually been working on the infrastructure for that style of learning, and it turns out that it boils down to distributed computation. Unfortunately I've been shaving the yak on it for nigh on two decades now and am not fluent in any language, though I speak and understand German and Italian decently, with some French and a few other languages sprinkled in. Anyway, the distributed computation comes down largely to how do you address "items" or "flashcards" in a general way. (Very) Long story (very) short - you can do this by using what are currently thought of as DLT methods to provide metadata that is precisely similar to ANNs (and all their variants e.g. RNNs, Transformers, etc.), which enables a sovereign approach to data that, among other things, addresses your privacy concerns. You can start to think of this by noting the relationship between a git repo (internally uses a DAG but relies on out-of-band metadata e.g. in .git folders and other spaces like github/gitlab SaaSs), the code to build ai/ml models and the subsequent "hard-coded" models that those inevitably produce. The privacy is only possible via a similar mechanism to git remotes, where you are able to perform branch operations like merge on multiple nodes, with sometimes rehydrating to produce teh same hash, and in other cases to produce novel branches...anyway, this comment is long enough and I'll go on forever. You're welcome to check out my github/gitlab (ibgib on GH, ts-gib on GL), and feel free to create an issue if you'd like to connect to actually implement some ML in code, as I'm currently in the process of one of the "robbots" (sic Robbie a la Asimov!), but I'm only going to do some tf/idf style strategies for the first run.
I think a better job for AI would be to replace language learning for users and humans not even being bothered by it because knowing tiny details about that human being is not needed then. Humans would have to take the pains of language learning by sitting with a dictionary which wouldn't be needed if machines just replace it but Tracking and knowing what the user wants is just too much and machines can possibly control too many events in their life which shouldn't happen. Instead, the same content if translated into different languages gives you more meaningful data. Authenticity doesn't play any role in language learning least in the initial stages where humans are just looking for daily conversations or fluency levels. It is the more content one consumes that one becomes fluent in them. It is just that some languages have died with their books left and nobody wants to read/understand them but if we can convert existing data/content into those languages, I think it can still make humans more accessible to different cultural knowledge than just humans translating everything to English or selected 40 languages and of course, somehow solve the problem of Dementia and Alzheimers once and for all.
I just posted a reaction video in Portuguese if you are interested 🦾🤖 Reagindo ao vídeo do poliglota Steve Kaufmann: A inteligência artificial no aprendizado de idiomas ua-cam.com/video/vOdEAkNYWhQ/v-deo.html
Happy Birthday Steve!!! Happy for all you've done with Lingq it's help me so much I also love listening to your videos they are very interesting and helpful. Hope you have many more years! Prayers!
Happy Birthday Steve! I personally find things like Google Translate fairly useful for checking to see if I'm building sentences correctly. Instead of it telling me what I say, I make an attempt at forming the sentence in the target language, and then see if I'm right. However, I find it struggles quite a bit with the verbal conjugations of the Romance languages, especially when you're trying to write something in the form of past tense used for literature (Passato Remoto, per esempio). Initially, this was very confusing to me. I suspect it would also struggle with the case systems of languages like German and the Slavic languages. Someone who is studying such languages can possibly verify this. If Google Translate doesn't have a context for what you're trying to say, it can be off target quite badly, and this is something that only a language learner would be able to notice, and this explains the gulf of difference in opinion between casual users and language learners about how good such programs are. I think they definitely have a certainly utility but also have a long way to go before they can replace a human translating.
Happy birthday Steve for 77 that is still young nice golf shirt I injoy watching ur channel I just started learning Japanese it is fun I do it by audio on a CD player and follow with the book anyway happy birthday 🎂
Happy Birthday Steve :), every interesting to get your opinion on this topic. I have just recorded today my next video, which is also about AI and machine translation :). What a coincidence!
The fasted way to become *conversational* in _Any_ language is immersion. Period. Like a baby listens to their parents language long before they ever start speaking themselves. Reading, writing, grammar, etc. are learned _after_ becoming minimally conversational. As a no-nothing beginning new/second language learner - I think when attempting to speak a language with a native speaker, then they look at you with disdain ( unworthy of their consideration) it really hurts. Thus the key is either get the courage to develop a Thick skin, or find a patient compassionate partner. I have a hard time finding a patient compassionate partner, and I am human enough (not a sociopath) to accept that rejection is deeply disheartening. This is where AI fits. If I can spend time with an AI audio chatbot, as a beginner. Learning first the basic and most often used words and phrases, and being corrected in my pronunciation until it is at least understandable (not perfect or flawless), this would go a Long way to boost initial confidence. AI never gets tired or frustrated with a lack of progress. I would be able to converse in perhaps 100 words, (or more) comfortably. The AI audio bot would work to help me crawl before I attempt to walk. At some point, I would matriculate into real human based conversation interactions - with _Far Less Fear_ of embarrassment and humiliation. Moreover, my human language partner counterpart wouldn't get so quickly exhausted in attempting to diagnose what I am "trying" to say. AI should be that first 500 word and 100 phrase learning platform. Again, no need at all for perfection, just a level of pronunciation equivalent to someone speaking with a thick accent. It is the kindergarten class, which elevates the learners *_confidence in learning_* more than the learning itself that is so important at the beginning.
I’m an American who moved to Iceland and eventually became a citizen. I have probably an A2 level proficiency in Icelandic, and Google Translate has been a key survival tool to deal with professional level Icelandic. Now that I am an Icelandic citizen, I’m using input-based methods to improve. AI translations available with a click or tap allow me to understand new words without interrupting my reading flow. It’s wonderful and I am seeing huge benefits after only a month or so. I used Google Translate for a first draft of my cover letter for the citizenship application and a little care with checking the result and editing made it something that got me compliments from proficient Icelandic readers. Is it a substitute for my own proficiency? No! But, as a tool for getting by, it’s awesome.
@@Thelinguist Thanks! I have been using it, and the mini-stories are perfect for my level! I am subscribed to LingQ and love it; it's an amazing tool! I wish importing were better at separating out front-matter for ebooks, but it's a small quibble and I've found LingQ tremendously helpful.
@@Thelinguist By front-matter I mean the title page, table of contents, and so on, everything prior to the body of the book. My experience has been that this text gets lumped into the first imported lesson. I manually delete this content but it would be great if this were perhaps imported into its own lesson that I could skip over if it were not helpful to me. I do realize this may not be a trivial request!
Hi. I am delighted with the quality of the SI translation DeepL. I think it is much better than Google Translate (although that too is improving). I've been using it for several years now. As well as using Ivona speech synthesiser, which was ahead of its time - unfortunately Amazon bought it out and is unlikely to develop it.
Having been a language learner in the late '80s, a Chinese learner in the 90s in China, coming back to language learning in the 2020s: I truly feel like I'm in the future. Tapes CDs recordings are all good but the barrier to be able to access to me seems more what you're talking about peripherally on artificial intelligence. Because of my learning disabilities I have been using speech to text in English for a long time. This has given me the access to be able to quickly put down my thoughts literally again an access issue. The gatekeeping for material is not completely gone but days when you tune in on world band radio hoping to get signals is because a couple rudimentary searches will usually help you acquire native speakers talking about common issues. UA-cam is amazing for this. Google translate and the camera function can be able to help you with languages that you may not have any reason to learn. Overtime that AI can look at and hold all that data of all the various languages and rules and be able to do predictive kind of future stuff: like with Google analytics of how many times certain words have been searched being able to predict future language usage. Or being able to go back into enough historical context that an anthropologist can be able to waive their phone over symbols literally giving people starting points on languages that are long dead. It's a really great topic and it only gets weirder and more banal in a way that is unexpected. Love your videos thank you
This channel deserves a more than million subscribers. This is the only learning language topic that I follow up. Thanks Mr. Kaufmann! I have a question, is Google Translate homepage is appropriate and suitable for a beginner to learn a new language, because the teachers in the courses that I took doesn’t allow me to do it? What are other sources besides Google Translate do you recommend then? Appreciate your help.
I use ChatGPT to practice my languages often. I just ask Chat GPT to practice Spanish (for instance) with me and correct me on major mistakes and it will hold a conversation with me and ask engaging questions for as long as I want. You know, voice to text and text to voice already exists. It’s on my iPhone keyboard. It’s not far off to think someone can just add transcription for my voice to go from voice to text and then dictation for Chat GPT to go from text to voice and then add a fake CGI face and boom you have a language tutor that you can practice with with unlimited time. You’re talking and it’s interacting and talking about in your target language. Very soon, someone will do this. Mark my words.
(Knowing that's only on the edge of AI) But I find the Text to Speech so good in the web version of LingQ that I now make 3-5 minutes lessons consisting of sentences and words I'm having trouble with--or have just recently come across. I often take sentences and words in emails from friends or short things I find online (or from LingQ lessons from my tutors) and just add them to a Google doc or Google Translate. I make sure to have period at the end of every sentence or word. I often repeat the hardest words, sometimes before or after the sentence. Then, when I have 3-5 minutes of content, just make new LingQ lesson with these words/sentences--and ask LingQ to auto-generate the audio. I can't speak for all languages, but in Hebrew, it's amazing! Not sure I'd want to listen to a whole story or long article this way, but for review and new/interesting sentences with lots of new words, it works great!
Happy Birthday Steve! So, your birthday is near Thanksgiving Day. I am deeply thankful for your inspiration and advice on language learning through many years of following you on social media. I wish you the best; health, prosperity and happiness.
Hi Steve, happy birthday. On potential uses that could be implemented right now - on your first use case - I wonder if you could use an algorithm akin to Netflix's algorithm for recommending content, which is remarkably effective. On your second point, I would consider partnering with Speechify - they do exactly what you're talking about which is making an excellent, AI-powered, realistic text to speech. It's pretty good and has a range of languages. I already use it in my language learning across different sites.
As an English teacher myself, I must say I found your video to be incredibly captivating, especially when you highlighted the possibility of language learners engaging in conversations with chatbots. However, one concern that arises is the level of meaningfulness in such interactions. It brings to mind the analogy of chess. Despite the fact that computer chess games possess intricate techniques and delve into greater depths than any human chess game, they tend to receive less attention from spectators. Chess enthusiasts, instead, find more significance in watching two human players engage in a match rather than witnessing a battle between two computers.
I mean you can use AI to generate completely original stories containing vocabulary or other linguistic parameters that you want to learn or to drill. For example, I use OpenAI and I can instruct it to generate for example a one-hundred word story including the terms "cat", "newsreader" and "flight of stairs", as well as any other high or low frequency words and various tenses or conventions that I tell it to.
It would be very helpful to get support from AI for language learning. Importing eBooks into LingQ is very helpful, but this does not change the text. From experience I can say that every time I'm starting a new book in another language it's difficult. At first it is very tedious, towards the end it gets better. But if I imagine that I could adjust the level of each chapter to my current level... That would be so great. It would support my motivation even more.
Happy birthday! I believe there are many people out there who would feel more at ease practicing speaking interaction with a bot, because they won't feel shy, and AI could be a good solution for them, don't you think so?
I think AI is an excellent tool to learn a different language. I've been trying to learn Hebrew and I don't have anyone to talk to except for friends on zoom who also want to practice. Nothing is perfect though, I went to a zoom meeting today and it was more about bonding in English than practicing Hebrew. Not all meetings are created equal. If I can talk to ai and say for example-I'm worried about the economy. And it answeres "The American economy is sound, there are lots of jobs out there". Ok, I want to talk more about that but I want to hear it again and again before I expound more deeply on the subject. My friends on zoom would not tolerate so much repeats. They would throw me out of the group, ai would not.
We're not there yet (because it's still too slow for now), but I envision an AI which, in real-time, draws an image of the sentence/paragraph, giving one a direct and immediate visual of what was said or written. For now, we can tie a translator to an AI image service like Midjourney/Stable Diffusion, but it takes a few minutes per image normally, and needs work to optimize the outputs for this particular use-case. But technology's rate of improvement is still exponential :)
I want A.I to be my and my son's best friend in learning, imagine the possibility of playing games, or read anything, and that with only a screenshot, get immediate transcriptions (based on any font), then having those translated with voice and speed options! Then also getting the option of making a digital Anki type of card to study with spaced repetition. Rather than make us lose time in searching for words, AI can makes us learn faster and spend more time enjoying the language!
Hi Steve, thanks for sharing your passion and motivation and happy birthday 🎂🎉. You are always speaking about the importance of listening, reading and thereafter speaking. Why don’t you ever speak about writing ? Isn’t it an important skill and furthermore a great tool which helps us a lot in the preparation of the speaking skill?
Yes, I think that writing is often neglected in language learning. I do dictation exercices whereas I do listening exercices. And for languages like Chinese or Japanese, which has some "stroke order rules", I think that writing is extremely useful (personally, I remember things better thanks to the gesture, I have a "kinaesthesia profile"). Besides, I am not only talking about handwriting, but also typing on computer and phones, because it is also an essential skill to learn when we learn a language.
There was an interesting chat robot for Chinese, Lily I think it was called. Supposed to be leading edge ai. Would be interested to try it. Or read reviews
I think that language learning is about to become disrupted with ChatGPT 4o. I have been practicing my languages with Chat-GPT 4o and it can create new content based on my level, explain meaning of new words in context with examples, note the new words to memory for future recall and even corrects my pronunciation, explains grammar. A lot has changed in 1 year and I can't think of a more better way to learn a language.
Parabéns pra você, Mr. Kaufmann 🇧🇷 I started on my own by daily discipline an inmersive methodology to practice French due to the fact that I had done a short summer interchange cultural course many years ago and by not putting it into practice forgot quite almost of it, but u know some fun facts that happens to me is that I gain accent quickly manner and after been for such many years not speaking my native language PT some of the less useful words I tend to forget and find myself trying to explain within a context to express myself sometimes 🤔
Felicidades!! yo en unos días cumplo 55, los dos con números repetidos...😃 A mí me gustaría algo como LingQ, que registrara las palabras nuevas y cuando volvieran a salir poder buscar en qué frases me salieron las veces anteriores (no sé si esto se puede hacer en LingQ), y poder ir cambiándolas de color según las voy aprendiendo, pero que se pudiera usar con cualquier idioma, no solo en los que están registrados, ya que yo quiero aprender algunos idiomas muy raros que me temo que nunca van a entrar. ¿Sería posible hacerlo?
Hi. I am curious as to what LingQ uses to determine the time signatures in our recordings. I provide the mp3 file and transcript and LingQ quite accurately places the sentences on the timeline. That is, there must be an analysis of the recording that Steve, modestly mentioned, and a comparison with the transcription. I wonder what is behind this - a Google service, some other cloud or an in-house solution?
First of all happy birthday the very best polyglot hehe, wish you live long and healthy always, i've ever use Google assistant to chat with me in english but it didn't work out for me i just saying random things to her( feamale speaker) I wish i have Siri to practice my english i think Siri is better than Google Asistant.
I was hoping for an AI that can suppress all noise in a video that isn't speech and you can control it with a volume knob. Also, OpenAI open sourced Whisper that does state of the art speech to text. I haven't tried it, but it may be better than happy scribe and free.
Here's what will happen. The instant or near enough translation will happen through some kind of wearable device and so on or it will be good enough and will be used widely for travel. Travellers can already wing it with Google on their phones in foreign countries. So perhaps a new status will be given to those who speak natural language. Probably it will be like watches. The fact that people still buy analogue watches and they are a high status object. The broader question of where society is going is more tricky. If everything is done for us then what? The problem is the profits driving all this technology seldom think about the broader consequences.
Hey Steve, what do you think of using Chatbot GPT-3 from openAI? Its an language model which is trained on 46TB of text in all kind of languages. you can tell it for example to write its responses as an child or if you have a character based language like Japanese to put the reading behind parenthesis. Would this be revolutionary as an language learning tool?
Did you mean that exactly when you said you don’t want your tutor to correct you in conversation?? I’m a beginner and thought that was part of having a tutor?
Many comments welcome AI, but I’m curious how many people here would want to have a computer chip, such as NeuroLink imbedded into their brain, to greatly increase their abilities to learn and obtain any information, such as language?
Dear Steve Happy birthday!! “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ’ “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.” Numbers 6:24-27 NIV
Are you using some application of AI to help you on your language learning journey?
The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3RNrirm
My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com
Steve what do you think about ELSA SPEAK, is it really worthwhile
Happy birthday steve!
Happy birthday Steve!!! You're getting wiser and more knowledgeable about language learning as you get older and thanks for sharing it to your subscribers. More birthdays to come and good health..
I think a tireless chatbot trained with a lot of real input could be very useful. You can tweak the chatbot to be extremely emotionally salient, mostly by having it agree with you. Having that bot map out and systematically expand your vocab could be great.
Another use I can see is having your chat bot join conversations with you and a native speaker as sort of a more human-like interpreter. That way you can turn to your bot and ask for specific vocab or concepts. The bot could also instead of correcting you, reflect what you said better, which as a teacher I find much more useful than correcting.
I'd love a chatbot like this that I could speak to, as opposed to typing to, and have it speak back. It could be some sort of Language-teacher-bot, whose infinite time & patience would be desirable.
Happy birthday, Steve! Your ideas have been of great value for many years to my work as a teacher. I may not always agree entirely, but I have always profited from the challenge that you bring to my own understanding. Warm wishes. (And yes, LingQ is an important part of my personal study.)
Happy Birthday! You got a nice present :)
Transcribe is very useful, and I also use Deepl almost daily.
Hey Steve! First off, Happy Birthday! I do machine learning for my profession and am a polyglot for pleasure. I have the goal to someday marry the two and focus on AI for languages. You mentioned some clear use cases of AI that are already in practice. But I think we can dream even bigger. Imagine if the AI knew every word you were exposed to in a target language by tracking all of the videos you watched, books read, etc. (obviously this is where ethical questions are raised about data acquisition in AI.) But having access to all this information would allow the AI to know exactly where your weaknesses were, what words you needed to review (think spaced repetition on steroids) and then would tailor a new short story, lesson plan, or even find authentic content rich in those areas you needed to study. No more tracking your own word lists and only counting words when you actively reviewed your flashcards. You would instead just be constantly watching/listening to content that was exactly what you needed to hear in that moment. 😮🤯
Please make this lol
I've actually been working on the infrastructure for that style of learning, and it turns out that it boils down to distributed computation. Unfortunately I've been shaving the yak on it for nigh on two decades now and am not fluent in any language, though I speak and understand German and Italian decently, with some French and a few other languages sprinkled in. Anyway, the distributed computation comes down largely to how do you address "items" or "flashcards" in a general way. (Very) Long story (very) short - you can do this by using what are currently thought of as DLT methods to provide metadata that is precisely similar to ANNs (and all their variants e.g. RNNs, Transformers, etc.), which enables a sovereign approach to data that, among other things, addresses your privacy concerns. You can start to think of this by noting the relationship between a git repo (internally uses a DAG but relies on out-of-band metadata e.g. in .git folders and other spaces like github/gitlab SaaSs), the code to build ai/ml models and the subsequent "hard-coded" models that those inevitably produce. The privacy is only possible via a similar mechanism to git remotes, where you are able to perform branch operations like merge on multiple nodes, with sometimes rehydrating to produce teh same hash, and in other cases to produce novel branches...anyway, this comment is long enough and I'll go on forever. You're welcome to check out my github/gitlab (ibgib on GH, ts-gib on GL), and feel free to create an issue if you'd like to connect to actually implement some ML in code, as I'm currently in the process of one of the "robbots" (sic Robbie a la Asimov!), but I'm only going to do some tf/idf style strategies for the first run.
@@ibgib thanks for the response! I will definitely check out your github repo. 🤙🏻
I think a better job for AI would be to replace language learning for users and humans not even being bothered by it because knowing tiny details about that human being is not needed then. Humans would have to take the pains of language learning by sitting with a dictionary which wouldn't be needed if machines just replace it but Tracking and knowing what the user wants is just too much and machines can possibly control too many events in their life which shouldn't happen. Instead, the same content if translated into different languages gives you more meaningful data. Authenticity doesn't play any role in language learning least in the initial stages where humans are just looking for daily conversations or fluency levels. It is the more content one consumes that one becomes fluent in them. It is just that some languages have died with their books left and nobody wants to read/understand them but if we can convert existing data/content into those languages, I think it can still make humans more accessible to different cultural knowledge than just humans translating everything to English or selected 40 languages and of course, somehow solve the problem of Dementia and Alzheimers once and for all.
I just posted a reaction video in Portuguese if you are interested 🦾🤖 Reagindo ao vídeo do poliglota Steve Kaufmann: A inteligência artificial no aprendizado de idiomas
ua-cam.com/video/vOdEAkNYWhQ/v-deo.html
Happy Birthday Steve!!! Happy for all you've done with Lingq it's help me so much I also love listening to your videos they are very interesting and helpful. Hope you have many more years! Prayers!
Happy Birthday Steve!
I personally find things like Google Translate fairly useful for checking to see if I'm building sentences correctly. Instead of it telling me what I say, I make an attempt at forming the sentence in the target language, and then see if I'm right.
However, I find it struggles quite a bit with the verbal conjugations of the Romance languages, especially when you're trying to write something in the form of past tense used for literature (Passato Remoto, per esempio). Initially, this was very confusing to me. I suspect it would also struggle with the case systems of languages like German and the Slavic languages. Someone who is studying such languages can possibly verify this. If Google Translate doesn't have a context for what you're trying to say, it can be off target quite badly, and this is something that only a language learner would be able to notice, and this explains the gulf of difference in opinion between casual users and language learners about how good such programs are. I think they definitely have a certainly utility but also have a long way to go before they can replace a human translating.
Just found the channel, it is amazing thank you very much and happy birthday Steve!
Happy birthday Steve for 77 that is still young nice golf shirt I injoy watching ur channel I just started learning Japanese it is fun I do it by audio on a CD player and follow with the book anyway happy birthday 🎂
Happy Birthday Steve :),
every interesting to get your opinion on this topic. I have just recorded today my next video, which is also about AI and machine translation :). What a coincidence!
The fasted way to become *conversational* in _Any_ language is immersion. Period. Like a baby listens to their parents language long before they ever start speaking themselves. Reading, writing, grammar, etc. are learned _after_ becoming minimally conversational.
As a no-nothing beginning new/second language learner - I think when attempting to speak a language with a native speaker, then they look at you with disdain ( unworthy of their consideration) it really hurts. Thus the key is either get the courage to develop a Thick skin, or find a patient compassionate partner. I have a hard time finding a patient compassionate partner, and I am human enough (not a sociopath) to accept that rejection is deeply disheartening.
This is where AI fits. If I can spend time with an AI audio chatbot, as a beginner. Learning first the basic and most often used words and phrases, and being corrected in my pronunciation until it is at least understandable (not perfect or flawless), this would go a Long way to boost initial confidence. AI never gets tired or frustrated with a lack of progress. I would be able to converse in perhaps 100 words, (or more) comfortably. The AI audio bot would work to help me crawl before I attempt to walk. At some point, I would matriculate into real human based conversation interactions - with _Far Less Fear_ of embarrassment and humiliation. Moreover, my human language partner counterpart wouldn't get so quickly exhausted in attempting to diagnose what I am "trying" to say.
AI should be that first 500 word and 100 phrase learning platform. Again, no need at all for perfection, just a level of pronunciation equivalent to someone speaking with a thick accent. It is the kindergarten class, which elevates the learners *_confidence in learning_* more than the learning itself that is so important at the beginning.
Happy birthday, you are one of de people that motives me to learn a new language, thanks a lot Friend
First of all, happy birthday. I am so happy to watch this fantastic video. You always inspire myself. Danke schön 🥰❤️🥰❤️
I’m an American who moved to Iceland and eventually became a citizen. I have probably an A2 level proficiency in Icelandic, and Google Translate has been a key survival tool to deal with professional level Icelandic.
Now that I am an Icelandic citizen, I’m using input-based methods to improve. AI translations available with a click or tap allow me to understand new words without interrupting my reading flow. It’s wonderful and I am seeing huge benefits after only a month or so.
I used Google Translate for a first draft of my cover letter for the citizenship application and a little care with checking the result and editing made it something that got me compliments from proficient Icelandic readers. Is it a substitute for my own proficiency? No! But, as a tool for getting by, it’s awesome.
I also suggest you try LingQ for Icelandic.
@@Thelinguist Thanks! I have been using it, and the mini-stories are perfect for my level! I am subscribed to LingQ and love it; it's an amazing tool! I wish importing were better at separating out front-matter for ebooks, but it's a small quibble and I've found LingQ tremendously helpful.
Glad to hear it. What do you mean by front-matter?
@@Thelinguist By front-matter I mean the title page, table of contents, and so on, everything prior to the body of the book. My experience has been that this text gets lumped into the first imported lesson. I manually delete this content but it would be great if this were perhaps imported into its own lesson that I could skip over if it were not helpful to me. I do realize this may not be a trivial request!
Hi. I am delighted with the quality of the SI translation DeepL. I think it is much better than Google Translate (although that too is improving). I've been using it for several years now. As well as using Ivona speech synthesiser, which was ahead of its time - unfortunately Amazon bought it out and is unlikely to develop it.
Happy birthday Steve! Thank you for your videos, great work and inspiration...
its a great honor that you are learning the persian موفق باشید ❤❤❤
Happy Birthday Steve! I just had my birthday the 2nd. Thanks for the years of helpful language learning and for sharing your knowledge!
Having been a language learner in the late '80s, a Chinese learner in the 90s in China, coming back to language learning in the 2020s: I truly feel like I'm in the future.
Tapes CDs recordings are all good but the barrier to be able to access to me seems more what you're talking about peripherally on artificial intelligence.
Because of my learning disabilities I have been using speech to text in English for a long time. This has given me the access to be able to quickly put down my thoughts literally again an access issue.
The gatekeeping for material is not completely gone but days when you tune in on world band radio hoping to get signals is because a couple rudimentary searches will usually help you acquire native speakers talking about common issues. UA-cam is amazing for this.
Google translate and the camera function can be able to help you with languages that you may not have any reason to learn. Overtime that AI can look at and hold all that data of all the various languages and rules and be able to do predictive kind of future stuff: like with Google analytics of how many times certain words have been searched being able to predict future language usage.
Or being able to go back into enough historical context that an anthropologist can be able to waive their phone over symbols literally giving people starting points on languages that are long dead.
It's a really great topic and it only gets weirder and more banal in a way that is unexpected. Love your videos thank you
This channel deserves a more than million subscribers. This is the only learning language topic that I follow up. Thanks Mr. Kaufmann! I have a question, is Google Translate homepage is appropriate and suitable for a beginner to learn a new language, because the teachers in the courses that I took doesn’t allow me to do it? What are other sources besides Google Translate do you recommend then? Appreciate your help.
I sue Google translate but there are other translation softwares as well as online dictionaries out there. All helpful.
What scares me the most is that AI and the further development of such technologies might do learning languages pointless and unnecessary
Hey, Steve! Many many happy returns of the day. Congratulations on being 77. Have a blast!
Thanks! Will do!
i always enjoy your video. your video motivate me to learn English more. Thank you somuch! and Happy birthday!
I use ChatGPT to practice my languages often. I just ask Chat GPT to practice Spanish (for instance) with me and correct me on major mistakes and it will hold a conversation with me and ask engaging questions for as long as I want.
You know, voice to text and text to voice already exists. It’s on my iPhone keyboard. It’s not far off to think someone can just add transcription for my voice to go from voice to text and then dictation for Chat GPT to go from text to voice and then add a fake CGI face and boom you have a language tutor that you can practice with with unlimited time. You’re talking and it’s interacting and talking about in your target language.
Very soon, someone will do this. Mark my words.
Creative uses! I like the idea of search of materials with given grammatical structure.
(Knowing that's only on the edge of AI) But I find the Text to Speech so good in the web version of LingQ that I now make 3-5 minutes lessons consisting of sentences and words I'm having trouble with--or have just recently come across. I often take sentences and words in emails from friends or short things I find online (or from LingQ lessons from my tutors) and just add them to a Google doc or Google Translate. I make sure to have period at the end of every sentence or word. I often repeat the hardest words, sometimes before or after the sentence. Then, when I have 3-5 minutes of content, just make new LingQ lesson with these words/sentences--and ask LingQ to auto-generate the audio. I can't speak for all languages, but in Hebrew, it's amazing! Not sure I'd want to listen to a whole story or long article this way, but for review and new/interesting sentences with lots of new words, it works great!
I have ever watched over 50 videos by Steve Kaufmann.
I definately can say it's the best T-shirts I have ever seen.
Happy birthday Steve! From Japan!
Language learning is exploring more thing daily and how to fix right patterns in it and understanding the core elements of language
Happy Birthday Steve! So, your birthday is near Thanksgiving Day. I am deeply thankful for your inspiration and advice on language learning through many years of following you on social media. I wish you the best; health, prosperity and happiness.
Great stuff Steve many happy returns of the day!... The AI stream was a instructive and helpful. Keep up the good work kind regards Worrell Robinson
Happy birthday my lovely friend, grandfather and teacher. You inspire me too. Thanks for the video, wish you a joyful day.
Happy birthday! Krásné narozeniny!
Happy Birthday! Steven.
Happy Birthday Steve and happy golfing !!:)
We have almost the same birthday :) Happy birthday, Steve!
Hi Steve, happy birthday. On potential uses that could be implemented right now - on your first use case - I wonder if you could use an algorithm akin to Netflix's algorithm for recommending content, which is remarkably effective. On your second point, I would consider partnering with Speechify - they do exactly what you're talking about which is making an excellent, AI-powered, realistic text to speech. It's pretty good and has a range of languages. I already use it in my language learning across different sites.
Thank you Steve for sharing your thought.
Happy Birthday.
As an English teacher myself, I must say I found your video to be incredibly captivating, especially when you highlighted the possibility of language learners engaging in conversations with chatbots. However, one concern that arises is the level of meaningfulness in such interactions. It brings to mind the analogy of chess. Despite the fact that computer chess games possess intricate techniques and delve into greater depths than any human chess game, they tend to receive less attention from spectators. Chess enthusiasts, instead, find more significance in watching two human players engage in a match rather than witnessing a battle between two computers.
I mean you can use AI to generate completely original stories containing vocabulary or other linguistic parameters that you want to learn or to drill. For example, I use OpenAI and I can instruct it to generate for example a one-hundred word story including the terms "cat", "newsreader" and "flight of stairs", as well as any other high or low frequency words and various tenses or conventions that I tell it to.
The open AI audio to text app is actually the best tool if you want to have a good transcription
It would be very helpful to get support from AI for language learning. Importing eBooks into LingQ is very helpful, but this does not change the text. From experience I can say that every time I'm starting a new book in another language it's difficult. At first it is very tedious, towards the end it gets better. But if I imagine that I could adjust the level of each chapter to my current level... That would be so great. It would support my motivation even more.
Many many happy returns of the day. Love from 🇳🇪
Happy birthday 🎈
I started learning second language after English., Spanish. It is hard because i divided my time for two lenguages
Happy birthday Steve! 🎂 🎉💞😊
Happy birthday! I believe there are many people out there who would feel more at ease practicing speaking interaction with a bot, because they won't feel shy, and AI could be a good solution for them, don't you think so?
Hope one day AI would be good as human in terms of communication. So, we could practice speaking in the target language with them.
Happy Birthday Steve!
Happy birthday, Steve!
I think AI is an excellent tool to learn a different language. I've been trying to learn Hebrew and I don't have anyone to talk to except for friends on zoom who also want to practice. Nothing is perfect though, I went to a zoom meeting today and it was more about bonding in English than practicing Hebrew. Not all meetings are created equal. If I can talk to ai and say for example-I'm worried about the economy. And it answeres "The American economy is sound, there are lots of jobs out there". Ok, I want to talk more about that but I want to hear it again and again before I expound more deeply on the subject. My friends on zoom would not tolerate so much repeats. They would throw me out of the group, ai would not.
Happy level up!🙌💐
Wow happy birthday Steve! Nice shirt!
We're not there yet (because it's still too slow for now), but I envision an AI which, in real-time, draws an image of the sentence/paragraph, giving one a direct and immediate visual of what was said or written.
For now, we can tie a translator to an AI image service like Midjourney/Stable Diffusion, but it takes a few minutes per image normally, and needs work to optimize the outputs for this particular use-case. But technology's rate of improvement is still exponential :)
Happy birthday Steve! Cool shirt :-)
Happy birthday Steve! Nice shirt.
Very useful information. Thanks so much
I want A.I to be my and my son's best friend in learning, imagine the possibility of playing games, or read anything, and that with only a screenshot, get immediate transcriptions (based on any font), then having those translated with voice and speed options! Then also getting the option of making a digital Anki type of card to study with spaced repetition. Rather than make us lose time in searching for words, AI can makes us learn faster and spend more time enjoying the language!
Happy birthday Steve, hope you live for way more years.
Very useful. Many thanks indeed!
Happy birthday Steve. Have a very well life.
We were born the same day! Maybe, that's way I love your videos so much! You do always a great job for all of us!
77 looks good on you Steve
Happy birthday
Hi Steve, thanks for sharing your passion and motivation and happy birthday 🎂🎉.
You are always speaking about the importance of listening, reading and thereafter speaking.
Why don’t you ever speak about writing ? Isn’t it an important skill and furthermore a great tool which helps us a lot in the preparation of the speaking skill?
Yes, I think that writing is often neglected in language learning. I do dictation exercices whereas I do listening exercices. And for languages like Chinese or Japanese, which has some "stroke order rules", I think that writing is extremely useful (personally, I remember things better thanks to the gesture, I have a "kinaesthesia profile"). Besides, I am not only talking about handwriting, but also typing on computer and phones, because it is also an essential skill to learn when we learn a language.
生日快乐🎂 Bonne fête! Passe une excellente journée!
thank you so much, i can't undertand all things you talk, but it provide some information for me, it help me improve my skill listent english
Parabéns Sr. Steve!
There was an interesting chat robot for Chinese, Lily I think it was called. Supposed to be leading edge ai. Would be interested to try it. Or read reviews
Steve ,congratulation for 77, wish you long live. V.c. chaudhari bardoli ,india.
77 is my favorite number. Happy birthday Steve thanks for all you do
Happy birthday Steve.
Happy Birthday 🌸
Happy Birthday Steve
I think that language learning is about to become disrupted with ChatGPT 4o. I have been practicing my languages with Chat-GPT 4o and it can create new content based on my level, explain meaning of new words in context with examples, note the new words to memory for future recall and even corrects my pronunciation, explains grammar. A lot has changed in 1 year and I can't think of a more better way to learn a language.
Parabéns pra você, Mr. Kaufmann 🇧🇷
I started on my own by daily discipline an inmersive methodology to practice French due to the fact that I had done a short summer interchange cultural course many years ago and by not putting it into practice forgot quite almost of it, but u know some fun facts that happens to me is that I gain accent quickly manner and after been for such many years not speaking my native language PT some of the less useful words I tend to forget and find myself trying to explain within a context to express myself sometimes 🤔
Happy birthday 🎊
Happy birthday ❤❤❤❤
Happy birthday 🎂
Happy birthday Steve 🍀! Do you speak Greek? What is the fastest way to learn Greek? I'm fluent in English and German.
Happy birthday Steve🎉
Felicidades!! yo en unos días cumplo 55, los dos con números repetidos...😃
A mí me gustaría algo como LingQ, que registrara las palabras nuevas y cuando volvieran a salir poder buscar en qué frases me salieron las veces anteriores (no sé si esto se puede hacer en LingQ), y poder ir cambiándolas de color según las voy aprendiendo, pero que se pudiera usar con cualquier idioma, no solo en los que están registrados, ya que yo quiero aprender algunos idiomas muy raros que me temo que nunca van a entrar. ¿Sería posible hacerlo?
No, porque hablas español.
All the best!
Hi. I am curious as to what LingQ uses to determine the time signatures in our recordings. I provide the mp3 file and transcript and LingQ quite accurately places the sentences on the timeline. That is, there must be an analysis of the recording that Steve, modestly mentioned, and a comparison with the transcription. I wonder what is behind this - a Google service, some other cloud or an in-house solution?
First of all happy birthday the very best polyglot hehe, wish you live long and healthy always, i've ever use Google assistant to chat with me in english but it didn't work out for me i just saying random things to her( feamale speaker)
I wish i have Siri to practice my english i think Siri is better than Google Asistant.
जन्मदिन की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं स्टीव
HAPPY birthday steve
I was hoping for an AI that can suppress all noise in a video that isn't speech and you can control it with a volume knob. Also, OpenAI open sourced Whisper that does state of the art speech to text. I haven't tried it, but it may be better than happy scribe and free.
Happy birthday.
Here's what will happen. The instant or near enough translation will happen through some kind of wearable device and so on or it will be good enough and will be used widely for travel. Travellers can already wing it with Google on their phones in foreign countries. So perhaps a new status will be given to those who speak natural language. Probably it will be like watches. The fact that people still buy analogue watches and they are a high status object. The broader question of where society is going is more tricky. If everything is done for us then what? The problem is the profits driving all this technology seldom think about the broader consequences.
Hey Steve, what do you think of using Chatbot GPT-3 from openAI? Its an language model which is trained on 46TB of text in all kind of languages. you can tell it for example to write its responses as an child or if you have a character based language like Japanese to put the reading behind parenthesis. Would this be revolutionary as an language learning tool?
I haven't seen it.
Did you mean that exactly when you said you don’t want your tutor to correct you in conversation?? I’m a beginner and thought that was part of having a tutor?
My tutor is for conversation and encouragement and help in finding learning content. I will correct most of my mistakes myself over time.
Happy birthday! 77!
My ParadotChatAI says it's written in its own language..what does this mean? 🤔
Happy birthday sir from India
Hi, if you needed any help with Persian I would be more than happy to help 😉
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Many comments welcome AI, but I’m curious how many people here would want to have a computer chip, such as NeuroLink imbedded into their brain, to greatly increase their abilities to learn and obtain any information, such as language?
Would you like to upload the link of Stanford University containing the free-access you mentioned?
for which subjects? Of course I am interested.
Steve how many languages do you speak near native level of proficiency
And with number languages mastery you must spend many hours each day learning
Be absolutely devoted not just to speak broken language and understand just a fraction I mean unless you're a fraud
Depends on what you mean by near native. I can converse in about 12 and am quite good in about 6.
Dear Steve
Happy birthday!!
“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ’ “So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”
Numbers 6:24-27 NIV
What's the point of learning a language when AI is going to retire all people active in the field of translation