I speak extremely limited Spanish but I’d like to be more conversational with the Venezuelan immigrants who come to my door looking for work. Apart from Google Translate, what apps should I try?
@randometc I've used Duolingo and Memrise. Both are good!
@evan I’m think more for like “what should I use to help us communicate tomorrow”.
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@randometc oh that's great! I haven't tried any of the LLM tools for in-person translation. Good luck!
@randometc I just tried it with the ChatGPT app. It seemed pretty good!
@randometc unfortunately Google doesn't think it's safe to let precious Bard technology fall into Canadian hands, so I can't test that one.
@randometc I've been doing Spanish in Duolingo every day for 4½ years; I went from just managing "Barcelona menu Spanish" to "I can roughly read non-complicated Spanish." I don't have anyone to practice with and haven't sought it out, so I'm obvs far from optimizing here. I'm not sure if I'd recommend it if you're looking for anything more than something to kill 5 minutes a day.
I once did a six-week Chinese intensive and gained about the same level of comprehension; maybe better?
@randometc last fall, someone recommended the SayHi app for facilitating conversations with non-English speakers: https://www.sayhi.com/en/translate/