Comment by 🗡️ The_Jackal
Re: "Looking for a Slovenian school textbook"
One of the things I've felt LLMs could really succeed at would be language learning.
Knowing a native speaker who's a good teacher would obviously be one of the best options of course. LLMs might be able to be the next best thing, however.
Apr 24 · 13 days ago
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🐝 pirkka [OP] · Apr 25 at 11:09:
@naktis thanks! I'll take a look, although I'm a normie and don't know how to go further than what the classic search engines provide in terms of links. Maybe I can buy an actual physical copy at an actual book store, which I'll be visiting quite soon. But the first one & the Internet Archive, I'll check it out, thanks again!
@stack @The_Jackal I actually do use a mix of different cloud LLMs, although not directly. DuckDuckGo provides a (more or less trustworthy) proxy to the GPTs of the world, and Perplexity and their own model (I think they've trained their own?) is pretty accurate sometimes. It's just that some marginal for LLM but very important for me use cases, such as "here's a word, give me for every singular and plural form, for every declension, the endings of this word". In such cases the output is rarely good and often misleading (i.e., downright wrong)
What seems to be (semi?)-official monolingual dictionary, Fran, is then my second step to get the declensions and some short expressions using the word, like this:
Anyways, thanks a lot for the tips, it is very nice of you all and just once again proves how nice this place (I mean BBS) is! <3
🗡️ The_Jackal [Weapons dealer, possibly mutant killer] · Apr 25 at 14:25:
@pirrka Which ones are you using and would recommend for language learning?
As another note about Deepl I forgot to mention, context and depending on how your sentence is structured can change how it's translated quite a bit more than on Google translate too.
🐝 pirkka [OP] · Apr 27 at 21:00:
To be honest, all models feel the same, but the "bigger" ones tend to over-explain a lot. I found Perplexity's own model to be quite good at translation and explaining the syntax, morphology, and grammar. In general, even as "old" a model as GPT-3.5 is fine. I have to verify every word anyway, and there are tasks at which all models are universally bad, such as giving me a breakdown of grammar cases for a particular noun
Original Post
Looking for a Slovenian school textbook — I'm trying to pick up Slovenian, and so far the resources are really limited. I'm familiar with the language to the point where I can tell a direction or show what hurts, but not enough to really flex the vocabulary. I'm mostly missing on the fundamentals: cardinal and ordinal countables, noun and adjective declensions, conditional form of verb, in general morphology and syntax So far my approach was a combination of consuming whatever I could find…