A Language Learning Tale

Podcast on YouTube: Link to YouTube Podcast on Spotify: Link to Spotify Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… When I Wouldn’t Use a Large Language Model Recently, I talked about using ChatGPT as a conversational tool and how I thought that was probably an acceptable use of a Large Language Model. However, my thoughts on using it to learn grammar are somewhat different. Why? Isn’t it just the same as speaking? Well, no, it isn’t. Now, I’m not talking about translating a phrase or a word using Google Translate or Reverso Context, or even Microsoft Word’s language tools. Yes, those involve grammar, and what we call AI to some extent, but they’re not questions. That’s more like proofreading. What I mean is something like, “Please explain to me how to use direct and indirect pronouns in...

Podcast on YouTube: Link for YouTube Podcast on Spotify: Link for Spotify Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about…   The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society This book is written by Viorica Marian and narrated by Cassandra Campbell. The author is Romanian and wrote this in their third language, English. The aim is to look at the mind through the lens of multilingualism. Before we start, there are quite a lot of things mentioned in this book that I have heard in other books, and I won’t go over previously discussed things too much, if I can avoid it, but all authors will go at things from a different perspective and bring up different points. And that kind of ties in with one of the themes of this book. Speaking multiple languages changes the way you think, both as ...