Welcome back to this episode of the to Fluency podcast.
If you are new here, my name is Jack from To Fluency and this is
a place where you can listen to natural English in a relaxing
way and learn all about the English language, how best to
learn grammar, etcetera. Today's episode is really
exciting for me because if you follow what I'm going to discuss
in this lesson, you're going to find the way you learn English
changes dramatically for the best.
So you're going to find new ways to learn English, to understand
English, and to improve your English in a way that is fun,
interactive, and highly effective.
Today's topic is all about how to learn English with AI.
To start with, it's important to go through some of these key
terms quickly. So AI means artificial
intelligence AI so you'll hear the word AIA lot now.
There are different AI tools like ChatGPT now.
This was always difficult for me to say at first, ChatGPT, but I
am used to it now. And I'm sure you've heard this
in your own language and also in English before ChatGPT.
There are other tools like Claude from Anthropic or Google
Gemini. So what I talk about today can
be applied to any AI chat bot. And I believe these tools are a
powerful way to learn English if you use them correctly.
And in today's episode, we're going to look at 4 powerful ways
you can use ChatGPT or other tools to boost your fluency.
We're going to give you 2 bonus tips to get more out of these
tools to use them effectively. And then I'm going to have a
little bit of fun at the end with some predictions or
thoughts about the future of AI. Be sure to stay until the end of
this episode because you're going to get a lot out of it,
especially if you start applying what I talk about.
So let's just start with the first way you can use ChatGPT to
learn English. And it's this asking language
questions. Now, this means you open up
ChatGPT and you say something like what's the difference
between much and many? Or when do I use much and many?
Why do we say I enjoy swimming instead of I enjoy to swim?
What's the best way to say this word in British English for
example? Now this has 2 main advantages
over the old way of doing things.
Firstly, you can get instant explanations without needing to
search through textbooks or websites.
So instead of using Google and go into a forum, go into a
website, etcetera, you can get an instant answer right to you.
And the second thing about it is that ChatGPT, from my experience
learning languages and in general is accurate.
So it's going to give you the accurate response.
Additionally, you can ask follow up questions.
So if something isn't clear, you can ask more questions to really
understand what it's saying. Could you explain this again in
simple terms? And one thing I've always said
is that in order to internalise the language and be confident
with it, you need to be clear on how to use it and when to use
it. So how to use a present perfect,
you need to be clear in your mind about, oh, OK, I understand
that. And then that means you'll be
able to use it in conversations. Now the second way to use it is
to generate examples. So you can ask chat CPT to
provide multiple examples for words, phrases, or grammar
structures. You're learning an example
prompt. Now this is another word to know
a prompt. A prompt is what you ask
ChatGPT. So an example prompt could be,
can you give me 10 example of sentences using the present
perfect tense? You can even say things like,
can you give me 10 simple example of using the present
perfect tense? Can you give me 10 sentences
using much and many? This is helpful.
This is useful because seeing different types of examples
helps you understand how to use a word or structure in different
contexts, so it gives you the confidence to know exactly how
to use it. You see the variations of the
way it is used and that gives you the ability to truly
understand how it's used. Another example prompt is give
me 5 sentences using the phrasal verb pick up and it's going to
give you 5 sentences for you. Now later I'm going to talk a
little bit more about how you can get the correct sentences
for you in the bonus tip. Now the third way to use it is
getting writing feedback. Now, when I first started
language teaching and started my channel, a lot of people ask me,
can you correct my writing? They sent me emails and they
asked me to correct their writing.
And there used to be tools where you could upload your writing
and a teacher would correct it for you.
But now we have this instant feedback, instant corrections on
your writing using ChatGPT. So an example prompt here.
What you can ask ChatGPT is this.
Can you correct this paragraph and explain my mistakes?
Or I'm going to write 5 sentences in the present
perfect. Could you correct and explain my
mistakes? So chat 2 BT will identify
grammar errors. Chat 2 BT will identify grammar
errors, awkward phrasing or strange not correct phrasing,
and sentence structure issues. And then it's going to give you
explanations to help you understand the corrections so
you can learn for the future. And this is incredibly useful.
In fact, you can start thinking about, firstly ask ChatGPT to
explain something you don't understand, then for it to give
you more example sentences, and then for you to practice these
writing sentences to get feedback.
Because in order to improve in a language, you have to use it.
You have to be able to produce it, whether this is writing or
whether this is speaking. And we'll talk about speaking in
a second. But I think the first stage to
practice in a language is writing because you can take
your time. You're not rushed.
You don't have to think about the way you say things.
Instead, it's all about getting it correct and taking your time
to do that. So the third way is to get
feedback on your writing. Now the fourth way is to
practice conversations. To practice conversations.
You can do this with writing or you can do this in a two
different ways with your voice. So let's say you have ChatGPT
thread open, especially if you're on your phone, it's
easier. But you can do this on your
computer too. You can use the voice mode and
speak, and it's going to create the text for you.
So you can ask ChatGPT the following for the prompt.
Again, we're using the word prompt.
Let's role play. You are a waiter and I'm
ordering food in a restaurant. So you're asking ChatGPT to play
the role of a waiter or a server, and you're going to
order food in a restaurant. You can make this more specific.
You can say, for example, in a fish and chip shop, or at a pub
in London or at a sushi restaurant.
But this is useful because it's going to give you the
opportunity to practice common scenarios without the pressure
of a real conversation. And just like the writing one,
you can ask for corrections if your responses are awkward,
unclear, or incorrect. And you can think about all the
different role plays. You can use this with, for
example, you've just met somebody for the first time at a
language exchange, and they're going to ask you questions about
your life. Or you can think about business
scenarios too, where you're in a business meeting and you're
asking questions or they're asking you questions about
things. It could also be a job interview
too. The second way to do this is
accessing the voice mode and ChatGPT app, where you can speak
into the microphone and then receive spoken responses from
the AI in the language you choose.
Now, at the moment, this isn't as good as speaking to a regular
person in real life, a teacher or somebody at a language
exchange, but it's getting better and better, and I'll talk
more about that later. And this is also a great way
just to get that speaking practice and to find yourself
getting more practice for free at home and also in a way where
you're just feeling comfortable about doing it.
So those are the four ways we can use ChatGPT in order to
practice and improve our English.
So we can do it for explanations, for examples,
writing feedback and real life conversations.
Next, we're going to talk about some bonus tips.
Now, the first one is to personalize ChatGPT so it knows
who you are. Personalize.
Set up ChatGPT in a way so it knows who you are, so you can
give ChatGPT context about your learning goals, levels,
interests, and who you are. This is really useful because
then ChatGPT is going to respond to you in a way that is personal
to you. It's going to make the lessons
and the chats more effective and relevant to you because when it
comes to speaking a language, you're going to be saying the
same things over and over again. You're going to talk about
yourself, you're going to talk about your interests, but also
you can tell ChatGPT your level. So then it can give you example
sentences matched to your level. So be sure to tell it as much
information as you're comfortable with when you are
starting chats with ChatGPT. Now the second bonus tip is to
take the notes from ChatGPT and practice them.
So let's say it's example sentences from ChatGPT.
What you can do is after using a thread for a while, you can say
summarise all the sentences that you've given me and put them
into a table. What it's going to do then is
create a table, an Excel table, or a Numbers table, and then you
can take that table and the sentences and practice them.
You can also ask it to export it as a text file if you prefer.
But the idea here is that you're not just seeing the sentences
and then that's it. Instead, you are taking those
sentences and using the methods that I've talked about on this
channel in order to improve your retention of the sentences and
also to get the practice you need in order to improve your
English in general. So the bonus tips are
personalized ChatGPT and then also take the sentences that
you've learnt and use a method in order to improve your
English. Now let's talk about the future
of AI and learning because I think this is fascinating and AI
in general I find fascinating, just so interesting.
And if you've been following it like I have, you'll know that it
is advancing very quickly. It's becoming better and better
all the time. And the new tools now, I think
the future of AI and language learning is going to be the
following. Firstly, advanced conversation
agents. So think about an AI language
teacher who is always there for you, who knows who you are, who
can constantly teach you English.
It's going to be paid, there's going to be free versions, but
the idea is that you're going to have a language teacher in the
future who is always going to be there for you.
Now, whether this is good or bad for the industry, whether this
is bad for teachers, that's a different conversation, but
that's where I think it is going to go.
And what's more is I can see it where the integration of AI or
the combination of AI with virtual reality or augmented
reality, I think that these two are going to come together.
So as a learner, you can imagine putting on some goggles and you
are in a realistic scenario, having conversations with AI
characters and in a way where you can make this specific to
you and your learning goals. So you can think about putting
on your goggles and you see yourself in, or you see the
scene of a train station or a pub in Manchester.
You go into the pub in Manchester and you can just go
around and have conversations with people in English and you
can have things where you see language analysis, giving you
tips. Someone is helping you through
this, You have a teacher helping you through it.
I think this is what's going to happen in the future in terms of
language learning. But with these two things and
ChatGPT right now, it's important to still immerse
yourself in English, internalise words and phrases and learn in
the most effective way. Now, I'm going to leave links to
videos that talk through this, and what I've talked about in
the past is still relevant today in terms of AI, but I see AI at
the moment as a way to help you learn more effectively.
So my question to you is, how are you using AI today in order
to learn English? And if you haven't tried these
methods I've talked about, I highly recommend trying them out
and I'll list them in the description so you can really
follow them in a way that you can apply them.
And then watch more of my videos, especially on how to
internalize languages and how to learn languages in order to use
these even more effectively. So share this video with a
friend. Thank you so much for watching
and I'll speak to you soon. Bye for now.