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BradRubenstein, to languagelovers
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In french, is a formal toot a voust?

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One of the shortcomings of most online language learning systems is that they cannot teach language-specific conversational turn-taking cues. Without them, conversations feel awkward and frustrating, and the participants often don't know why.

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I've seen ASL conversations where a non-native speaker, wanting to interject, touches the speaker's hands.

Turn-taking errors can be brutal.

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@BradRubenstein @languagelovers @linguistics I'm not familiar with ASL norms at all, but I'm going to assume that that's a bit like slapping your hand over someone's mouth to get them to shut up.

Thankfully for me, it's mostly just a matter of feeling like I'm interrupting. I can't say if I actually am, though (if I could I wouldn't have the problem, at least not as much).

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Learning Spanish: If I understand correctly, "a database of finger dice" is "una base de datos de dados de dedos".

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For every language, a personality.

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BradRubenstein, (edited ) to random
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I suspect even ChatGPT doesn't believe that it is saying what it is saying.

#ChatGPT #Hallucination @languagelovers

BradRubenstein,
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To be fair, there is an ņ in Latvian - a voiceless palatal nasal.

But I don't think any Latvian word ends with ņ (as does Bard's city of Lyoņ). Perhaps one of the Latvian Language Lovers knows.

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