Hey reader,
I recently found out about NotebookLM from Luca Lampariello and thought I would share it by making it the resource spotlight for this week’s edition. I’ve only been playing around with it, but it looks like it has the power to really help with learning with content.
Simon
🛠️Resource spotlight: NotebookLM
Use AI to create content in your target language. Just change the default language, upload a source, such as a text or video you are interested in. You can then have it produce summaries, podcasts, and ask the AI about the grammar or vocabulary in the text.
As with all uses of AI, take everything with a grain of salt and verify anything that doesn’t seem right.
🌐Language learning
How to learn a language a month before travelling - a comment I made to a question someone posted in the r/languagelearning chat thread. It’s focused on Spanish, but the advice works the same for all languages.
The memory palace technique for language learning
💻From around the web
Is black American English becoming tonal? - the answer is no but the reason is more insightful than you might expect.
Not strongly related, but someone set up 10 AIs so they all played Mafia with each other.
The origins of Aussie nicknames.
Source: Starkey
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