There's now a new competitor for Duo's crown, but it certainly isn't a replacement for the AI-averse. It's also far from an underdog, considering the service comes from none other than Google. Yesterday, the company announced a new AI-powered language learning experience it calls Little Language Lessons. It isn't an app, rather an experiment in Google Labs that offers small doses of lessons and immersion for a handful of different languages.
Using Google's Duolingo alternative
To start, head to Google Labs' Little Language Lessons site, and sign in with your Google Account. You'll need to agree to a pop-up that warns you that the feature is an early experiment that uses generative AI, and might not always be accurate—a hallmark flaw of AI tools in general.
Arabic
Chinese (Hong Kong)
English (AU)
English (US)
French (France)
Greek
Hindi
Japanese
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)
Once you're in, there are three different types of lessons to try—or "experiments," as Google calls them. "Experiment no. 001" is "Tiny Lesson," which assists you with words, phrases, and grammar for any situation you can dream up. You choose the language, then type a "purpose or theme" into the provided text field. If you can't think of anything, you can use one of the auto-generated themes Google provides, like "taking a taxi," "scuba diving" or "going on a first date." (Or taking a taxi to scuba dive on your first date.)
"Experiment no. 002" is "Slang Hang," which aims to teach you slang and expressions from the regions that speak the language you're learning. For fun, I asked it to run with U.S. English for this one. Slang Hang generates a story between two people, and, following a short premise, generates a conversation between them to demonstrate how they might naturally speak to one another. Expressions and slang are underlined, and, again, you can click the speaker icon to hear them spoken out loud.
One side of the conversation is generated at a time, and you press the space bar to move on to the next person's sentence. If you want a new story altogether, you can hit the refresh icon, or click the X to exit entirely. (Slang Hang is currently missing support for Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal), and Turkish.)
Credit: LifehackerOnce you grant access to your camera, snap a photo of your surroundings. Word Cam then analyzes the image, highlights specific elements, and labels them with words in the target language. For example, I took a photo of the street corner, and Word Cam labeled the car as "o carro," the grass as "a relva," and the bush as "arbusto." You can tap each word to pull up a full page about the word in question, as well as examples of how you might use it in different sentences and scenarios.
Can Little Language Lessons compete with Duolingo?
The main concern is learning the wrong words, which could be an issue if the AI decides to hallucinate an incorrect translation. That's where human intervention would come in handy: If lessons were generated by people and fact-checkers, you'd feel a bit more at ease with accepting the information at face value. With these lessons, however, I feel I have to double-check everything it tells me.
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