Wow
What?!
Wow
that’s a pretty good explanation…
This is crazy!
It’s mind-blowing, right?
This is an AI chatbot called ChatGPT developed by OpenAI
Thanks to my friend Andrew from Abchinese
for recommending this to me!
In this video
we’re going to talk about
how this tool can help you study a language
We’re also going to discuss how AI may
potentially change the future of language learning
Hello everyone!
I’m Grace from Grace Mandarin Chinese
Let’s first take a look at what ChatGPT can do
to help improve your language skills:
If you have no idea how to use a word
you can ask ChatGPT to explain the word to you
For instance
if you’re wondering how to use the word “果然”,
you can type in “How to use 果然 in Chinese”
and then here you can see it’s telling us the meaning of 果然
and it also includes us its pinyin
and some example sentences for context
If you’d like to see more examples
you can just ask it to provide more
As a native speaker, I’ll say
all of the example sentences here are pretty natural and reliable
In addition to providing meanings and examples
ChatGPT can help correct your sentences
For example
now I’m writing a wrong sentence on purpose
Let’s see if ChatGPT can correct it
It corrected my sentence
and I’m really impressed by the result
because it corrected all of the grammar mistakes
ChatGPT can also be used to clear up your confusion
let’s say
if you are watching a show in Chinese
and hear people using the word 啥
but you don’t know if this word is formal or not
you can ask:
Is 啥 used in formal situations in Chinese?
And now you have the answer:
啥 is considered an informal word
which is accurate
And it even lets you know which words
you could use alternatively in a formal situation
That’s really handy!
If you encounter some concepts that you don’t understand
you can also ask ChatGPT to explain them to you
For example
if I learn “measure word” in class
but I don’t really get what its function is
I can type in “What’s ‘measure word’ in Chinese”
Okay
let’s take a look at the answer
the first part is pretty good
but the second part is wrong
we’d never say “幾個書”,
even though 個 is indeed used very commonly
the measure word for 書 is 本
So you can still find mistakes in its explanation
but I’d say that most of the answers it gives are pretty good
Just as you saw at the beginning of this video
this AI chatbot can also
provide you with sentence patterns for communication
Like this
you can ask “How to introduce myself in Chinese”
and it’ll give you some related sentence patterns to use
And you can also ask it to provide you with some material for studying
like I showed at the beginning of this video
if I’d like to improve my Chinese news reading skills
then I can ask it to provide me with a vocabulary list
of commonly used words in Chinese news
There you go!
It gives us twenty commonly used words
and if, for example
I’m specifically interested in news on environmental issues
I can request some more words about this topic
Now we've seen that this AI chatbot can
help us with our language learning in various ways
I have to say
I’m really impressed by its ability
to focus on our individual needs
and to clarify confusion we may have
It's like having our own personal language learning assistant
available to us at all times
which will definitely help us learn a language faster
I think if it becomes more popular and is priced reasonably
a lot of the work of a language teacher will become automated in this way
Like, revising students’ essays
or helping students with their questions outside of the classroom
But what I’m not sure about is
“Can AI technology reach the level
where it can do all the work of a language teacher
and help a student master a language?”.
As a language teacher
I think one thing
that would be very hard to replace is
the human connection
The connection I have with my students is pretty strong
and I don’t think that can be easily replaced
However
I still have a question for you
If you can use AI to master a language in the future
and the results are the same as learning with a real life teacher
Which one would you choose?
Let me know your answer in the comments!
Also
If you have any thoughts on
how AI will change the future of language learning
please share them in the comments!
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