Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo

Google has launched AI-created “Little Language Lessons.”

You can use it to learn lots of different languages, but the language of the site itself appears to me to be only either be English, Spanish, French or Portuguese (at least, those are the only options provided on my screent). That’s important because the explanations are only offered in those languages.

You choose the language you want to learn, type in what you want to learn (to ask someone on a date, order at a restaurant, etc.), and it provides you with vocabulary, expressions, and explanations. You can read and hear the words, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t offer you the option of practicing saying them and being evaluated by AI for pronunciation.

It also does offer two other options – a feature to learn “slang”/idioms and another where you can take a picture of your surroundings and it can help you learn how to talk about it.

My take on it:

Little Language Lessons continues Google’s constant efforts to find something useful to do with its AI. It also continues its failures (apart, I think, from NotebookLM, to actually succeed in doing something useful with it.

If they included reinforcing exercises, including language-learning games, along with the ability to have users repeat and have their pronunciation immediately evaluated – not that would useful.