Language tutor

Inspiration

As an expat living in a country where they speak another language its hard connecting to the local people, making friends or even asking questions about your electricity bill. If you don't have the time to both work and go to language classes there are not a lot of options, except apps like Duolingo.

To me the problem with those apps is that they don't really focus on real life scenarios, with sentences like the man is not a banana etc. Although the quality of the lessons has greatly improved, I don't feel confident writing or speaking the language after two years.

Next to apps like duolingo, you can start reading books, listening podcasts in the language you're learning. I was gifted a book, with short stories in Norwegian, explaining some of the more complicated words before each chapter. But you need to read the book a couple of times to get the whole story and to me that was frustrating. Which gave me the idea for this app, it talks to you in the language you're trying to learn, but also corrects your mistakes.

What it does

It teaches you the language via natural conversation. You can make the conversation as technical as possible. As long as the chat bot always comes up with the next question

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

The idea to have a LLM to generate a list of mistakes was initially a bit to strict, correcting the usage of komma's or the lack of periods at the end of sentences. It was a bit of a challenge to get the correct prompt, so that the LLM only corrects real written mistakes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

Its very important to be able to describe as detailed as possible what yuo expect the widget/LLM to do.

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• partyrock