My kid is learning English as a second language and he was using some corporate program that was supposed to be fine tuned over many years. I noticed that their method of teaching is not great because it forces kids to memorize images instead of read actual text, so I stopped immediately and switched him over to reading one syllable words and gradually building them into sentences.

Now I use ChatGPT to generate custom lesson plans for him. It takes about 10 seconds to generate. I can honestly say this has worked much better than this expensive corpo program.

The tools we have at our disposal now are insane. All it takes is a tiny bit of imagination and a drive to try things.

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Is japanese his first language? Are you talking english to him?

Yes he speaks both languages fine but he can’t read as well in English. He learns Japanese reading in school so he’s further ahead in that but I’m teaching him English reading at home. We all speak English at home.

we are also thinking about how to do it, the little one will learn German anyway, but we think learning English is much more valuable for her

Yes, having English language knowledge is a huge asset imo. Opens up so many doors.

I’m really struggling to have my kids learn Portuguese (my mother language)! Will give it a try!👍

Reading?

How old?

7

Just wait until you can have a house robot teach/talk to your kid.

Probably already possible

Probably! But also probably expensive. Haha. Will soon get cheap enough for everyone to have.

I doubt it. Just need a way to turn Alexa or some other listening device to respond in a desired language - maybe they already do. I bet this product and many like it already exist.

ChatGPT already does this but you have to tap to engage it. I bet you could make it always on and listen to inputs

Yeah. I’m sure all this stuff is right around the corner.

"See Dick. See Jane. See Spot. See Spot Run. Run Spot, run!" Or "One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish."

The monosyllabic style of early learning is something we all grew up with. Don't know what corporate program you went to but they clearly forgot their childhood.

We have friends who did the opposite (Canada then moved to Japan) and sadly their kid never had the strength in Japanese to succeed (dropped a grade and still struggled) in Japanese highschool so they returned to Canada.

My daughter talks allot of English and finds it harder to speak Swahili which is our national language... her teacher says she's bright but problem is she speaks allot of English and confuses sometimes she direct translates Swahili words during Swahili lesson to English 😅😅😅

Do you speak Swahili at home?

Yes she hears but will mostly answer in English unless you insist on the reply to be in English

I think that’s normal. Kids pick a language they feel most comfortable with. We spoke nothing but English at home so our kids reply in English but interestingly they speak Japanese between each other. I remember when I came to US, I switched over to English and even though my mom would speak to me in our native language I always responded in English because I was more comfortable with it. To this day she tried to speak to me in our language and I still respond in English 🤣

In short kids are amazing and very intelligent small cute innocent human beings 🥰😍😅😅😅

Perfect, plus read a lot of books with him too. Just a little ahead of his own reading level. 🧡

Yeah, they seem to have forgotten on why the phonetic alphabet was invented. By treating each word as its own icon it requires a lot of cognitive overhead as opposed to breaking it down into individual phonemes. Being cynical, it might actually be a teaching strategy to actively reduce cognitive ability.

Good to know! Happy learning!

Look into Anki , life changing for language learners.

That’s a great insight! It’s crazy how many ‘educational’ programs focus more on memorization than true literacy. How are you structuring the AI-generated lessons? Any key takeaways from what’s working best for your son? Would love to hear more about your approach! Hi karnage

I definitely think education is one of the biggest low hanging opportunities for AI to address. Sooner than later. A curriculum for YOU vs. a generalized curriculum that works for (hopefully) 50% of people is the way.

wow, I thought everyone here was native English.

Must be tough being a non native and using English everyday on Nostr.

I should move overseas and become a part-time English teacher.

It's great that GTP chat can be used to improve these types of mechanisms. It's great that your child can learn to speak the language better at an early age.

Way to be an involved parent! Nice job! I like how you’re using technology to help!