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by smusamashah 142 days ago
AI translation is so much usable these days I think.

I had a report/article (using Claude) on methods to fall asleep. First method worked amazingly and I am doing that every night. I translated it to Urdu using Gemini (because they are doing translations for a long time, they must be better). First translation used very stiff/dry language, something you might read in a research paper etc. I asked it to simplify it for my mom the language and to my astonishment, it did that very very well.

Urdu surely must not have as much data as other languages. I could not find a single mistake. Yeah there were some weird choices of words in original version, but the simpler was so good it can be published like an article.

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Please share the method
It was "cognitive shuffling". While eyes closed, pick a 5-6 letter word (like Blanket), then starting from first letter start making words while visualising each briefly (baloon, bed, bicycle, banana and so on). When first letter is fully exhausted for you, move to next one and do the same.

From what I read and have experienced, I rarely reach second letter. This helped my wife too.

There was another variation where you pick one category (fruits, cities etc) then make words starting from A to Z. Then move to next category. This one requires more mental work for me therefore I haven't tried it yet.

If either works for you, please update :)