Are you using ChatGPT for language learning? Discover Steve’s ChatGPT strategy and essential prompts in this week’s video:
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FYI. I’m going from memory I little here, but Steve’s suggestion to get a summary of some book, you have to be careful with. It may not actually be correct. I asked it to give me a summary of a book, including the main characters and what their role was. It completely made up names and much of the story.
Possibly it works ok with books that have actually been fed into the AI modeler (likely public domain books but maybe some beyond this). It’s fine to generate some content, but just don’t expect it to be accurate in its summarization depending on what book you are asking about.
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I used ChatGPT for a while to write short essays, e.g. about the animals of Latin America in easy Spanish.
I stopped doing that when ChatGPT tried to convince me that capybaras are ruminants.
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Making ChatGPT do this task looks like such an unnecessary move, there are tons of sites with reviews for books, of course it depends on an author of a review, whether they would give you a small recap or not, but. I find myself quite often dissuaded from reading some non-fiction books by simple reading the reviews on goodreads. Some users of such platforms write reviews/recaps so good that it feels like a waste of time to read a full book after
While we are on the topic of books, I would really suggest following someone from booktok/booktube in your target language. It is sooooooo cool to listen to some thoughts about the book you’ve just read in the target language, doubly so, when this content creator has a lot of things to say, ie they’ve been doing it for quite some time.
Anyways, my point comes down to always prioritize content that has already been made, and only use some ai methods, where it is not possible.
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I use this on free Chat GPT. It produces simple news that could be imported to Lingq and is roughly a minimum amount per day. Could this be integrated into Lingq?
It could also be a way to offer other language such as Irish on a beta basis (no mini-stories or audio).
EDIT: the results can be pasted to the title line (date, time, words) and the main text area. This makes it quick to import.
State the date and time in the DD/MM/YY HH:MM format and add the text “mi_ai_ “. Write only in modern Greek. Write about news in the first country or area from this list that you have not written about today:the UK; Ireland; the USA; Cyprus and Greece; the EU. Use language and grammar at the A2 level of proficiency of the language. Write three sentences per news topic. You are providing text for someone to read a language using the comprehensible input approach. Summarise a topic from news published in the last 24 hours. Only use news from reliable sources. Use a topic you have not talked about earlier today in this thread for this language. Summarise the news topic. Use simple words. Use simple vocabulary. Use vocabulary that you have already used in this thread when you can. Use a small number of new words that have not been already used in this thread. Avoid complex words. Use short sentences for easier reading. Do not use any English words. Make 20 news stories but do not repeat the line with the date in it. Use non numbers for bullet points. At the end and once only overall, briefly state your news sources.
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Which is why I get it to do news and go to reliable sources.
The MI_AI bit is so we can search it later (my imports, articifial intelligence).