AI and Language Learning… Does It Still Make Sense to Learn a Foreign Language?

Today, we will look into if it still makes sense to learn a foreign language today. Learning a foreign language is a huge time commitment, and we could do lots of other things in our time. So it just makes sense to ask ourselves why we are doing it and if it’s worth it.

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0:00 - Start

01:07 - Main Challenges for Non-human Translators

01:56 - Short History and Types of Machine Translation

04:11 - Todays Technology

07:21 - What's to come?

08:42 - Still a Good Idea to Learn Foreign Languages?

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Rule-based machine translation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_machine_translation

Statistical machine translation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation

Neural machine translation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_Translation

Adaptive machine translation

https://berns-language-consulting.de/language/en/blog/smt-nmt-adaptive-mt-pemt-what-does-that-mean-exactly/

Timekettle

https://www.timekettle.co/

Big Bong Timekettle Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Gcqdg_QOM

Google Pixel Buds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6r4y17bV8g

Skype Translator

https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-translator/

Google Translate

https://translate.google.com/

DeepL

https://www.deepl.com/translator

Trint

https://trint.com/

No Language left behind

https://ai.facebook.com/research/no-language-left-behind/

Steve Kaufmann

https://www.youtube.com/c/Thelinguist