Yeah, I know the app is Chinese. It’s just a shame it doesn’t have a microphone interface, it would make things a lot smoother by skipping the need to type out every request. But still, if you’re focused on Chinese, it works really well.
To be honest, I’m a bit fed up with typical Chinese learning videos. After watching hundreds, they all start to feel kind of the same. So I started looking for something more engaging that could also serve as solid comprehensible input.
Now what I do is search for random English videos on topics I actually enjoy. I grab the transcript and throw it into ChatGPT or Gemini. I tell it I’m a Spanish speaker and ask it to rewrite the content in simplified Spanish, something around A2 or B1 level. Since it’s my native language, I can read it easily and fine-tune the tone if needed, whether I want it more casual, less literary, whatever.
Once I’m happy with it, I ask for a Chinese translation in the same tone. And here’s where it gets interesting. I paste the Chinese version into Deepseek. I let it know the text was generated by another AI, not native in Chinese, and I ask it to rewrite it so it sounds natural to a native speaker. Nothing literal, just clean and native-sounding.
Once that’s done, sometimes I add a TTS voice. With the refined text and the audio, I create a mini lesson for myself. It would honestly be much easier if LingQ had built-in TTS, but for now, this setup works great.