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by kubb 1286 days ago
You could use it to practice already:

  1. Ask GPT for a list of 20 A1-level sentences in English.
  2. Save them.
  3. Try to translate them to Spanish.
  4. If you can't use a translation service.
  5. Try again the next day.
The only problem is making sure that the AI generates sentences that use the vocab that you don't know, so that you keep expanding it. Not sure how to solve that.

For pronunciation, record yourself repeating after a natie speaker recording, play back and analyze. Make use of phonetic transcription in dictionaries.

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Instead of GPT, you can take sentences from Tatoeba, and analyse and index by vocabulary. 'PhrasePump' does this already. We glued together an NLP pipeline (Stanza etc.) to capture the lemmas in sentences.

https://www.languagereactor.com/phrasepump

Or use clozemaster since it’s a fully realized app that does all the work for you.
This is excellent and I love it :)