Google Just Dropped a New AI Language Learning Tool!

Okay, so about 3 days ago, Google launched a brand  new feature called Gemini Story Book. And I think   it can be pretty effective for language learning.   Basically, it allows you to create personalized   illustrated stories about anything with Reddit  allowed narration. And if you scroll down,   you can see that it's available in over 45  different languages. I basically learned about   this feature from watching this video over here  where this person made a story about a robot in   Japanese. And I was like, hey, I can use this for  my own Japanese studies. So, what I did is I went   to Google's Gemini, like a gemini. google. com. And  then I said, "Write a story in Japanese about the   major restoration to help me learn new words. "  And then clicking open over here, this is what   it generated. So I can flick through it and I can  also press listen to actually listen to a story. And then I can skip ahead and I  can see that it has more images   and has character consistency and  it's actually like a full story. And if you have a browser extension installed  like yan here then you can also use that. So   I don't know what this word means over here and I  can hover over the word press shift and then I can   see scrolling down it's a top-not hairstyle worn  by men in the edeto era. And if you have it linked   to ank then you can also press this add button and  then it adds it to your ank as well. Or if I don't   know what this word means over here I can hover  over it and it says it's a steam locomotive. And   then I told it to redo the story but at the level  that a 5-year-old would understand. And then going   through the story over here, it's much simpler. It  doesn't use as long sentences. Its writing system   is not as complicated because it doesn't use  any kanji, which is the more complicated system,   the writing system in Japanese. And yeah,  overall, it's like a shorter story, but it's very   comprehensible. And then I said in another chat,  create a story book of a UFO invasion in Japanese,   right at the level of a 7-year-old. And going  through the story book, like I can listen to it   as well. I can choose between a lower pitched  voice and a high pitched voice over here as   I'm listening for it. And I also learned a few  words space related when going through the story   book. I also tried with a 10-year-old level, as I  said, create a story book of the Satsuma clan and   their first trip overseas to learn about Western  technologies. And I created this story book over   here. And it's more complicated as well because  it's the level of a 10-year-old. And I learned   more words going through this as well. And I  also said do at the level of 15year-old. And   it didn't really do it like that complicated. I  think it kind of cuts out at the level of a 12 or   13year-old. I'm pretty sure a 15-year-old would  have a really easy time reading this. And I can   also do another one in Chinese by saying, "Write  a story book about the British taking over Hong   Kong in Chinese at the level of a 5-year-old. " I  don't know any Chinese, so I don't know how good   this will turn out, but for Japanese, it did  turn out pretty well. And this usually takes   about 3 to 5 minutes to complete. And as we're  waiting for that to complete, I'll talk about why   I like this. The biggest reason is that you can  listen to a story as you're looking at the photos.    So when you are starting out with learning a  language, it's much more important to improve   your listening and speaking skills than it is  to improve your reading and writing skills. It   helps to do a bit of reading and writing maybe,  but mostly like you should be doing speaking   and listening like 95% of the time. So I can  be listening to a story and just looking at   the photo, not the text. And then when I hear a  brand new word, if I don't immediately know what   it means by looking at the picture, I can just  look it up over here. So, for example, this word,   I knew that immediately meant that it was made  of stone because like looking at the photo, it's   pretty obvious that all these buildings are made  of stone over here. And I think the other benefit   is that when you're learning a language, you want  to make sure you're using engaging material that   you personally find interesting. And I really like  Japanese history. So, when I'm learning Japanese,   it's pretty nice. I can just learn about Japanese  history from this like AI generated story book   that's read out loud to me. So, I actually  learned about the Satsma clan and their   first trip overseas about to learn about Western  technologies when I was in a museum in Kagoshima.    And then I wanted to know more about this. And  this is like a pretty nice way of knowing more   about this. But of course, the level that you  choose, whether that's a 5-year-old, 7-year-old,   or 10-year-old, or something else does depend on  how good you are at the language already. If you   don't know any words or you know like 10 words,  it's probably better that you find another way to   learn more words. And then after you know a couple  hundred words, you can start doing the level of a   5-year-old, for example. For me, I know several  thousand words. So, I can do like the level of a   10-year-old pretty easily, but I haven't reached  like the level of a 15 or 16 year old right now.    So, I finished generating the story book in  Chinese. So, we can press the lesson over here. And yeah, in this case, I don't understand  anything because I don't know any Chinese.    But looking at the photos, it's quite good  because it's like character consistent.    It's actually telling a story. You can kind of  figure out what some words mean and so forth. So,   if you do try this and leave a comment down  below with what you think and I think it is   pretty promising because sooner or later in  the future, you will be able to make your own   TV shows or own video games or just anything to  help you learn a language. Because one of the best   ways of actually learning a language is to just  consume a lot of content within that language,   whether that's just television shows, movies,  media, or just anything else. Consuming a lot   of content is like pretty good overall. But if  you can have content made just at your level for   something that you're interested in, then I think  that can be pretty powerful. And I hope that in   the future you can soon or later generate  like a 20-minute long episode or entire TV   show that's really interesting to you that's  in another language that can help you learn

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