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by lucb1e 542 days ago
The first example in the first screenshot isn't very idiomatic. I'd say hulp rather than 'guidance' when filling out a form. It works, but I don't know that anyone would say that

The second one, I'd say either bepalen/beslissen (if you want to make a decision) or uitvinden ("out-finding", find out). The word from the screenshot, vaststellen (literally: "fixed setting", think of it as fixating), is still in common enough use, particularly in formal writing, but more of a word for "good to know" than to use in active vocabulary

No comments on the third one :) That's idiomatic use (though I'd have thought of, just like in English, "not falling over" as opposed to "work-life balance" as the defining meaning of the word)

The readme says the examples are generated using ChatGPT. Why not use an existing dataset instead of generating mediocre examples with lots of energy? Similar to what YouGlish(.com) does, you could get a lot of sentences spoken by native speakers from YouTube transcripts for example, or Wikipedia for written language, or other sources costing virtually no energy at all to find a word in and being better as well

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I see your point! I also wouldn't see ChatGpt as the ultimate source of language learning. I just occasionally used it to generate some words for me, and I found it helpful, so I just automated that. I like the idea of getting something out of transcripts, that would make it more realistic and practical!