How I Use ChatGPT to Help My Children Master our Minority Language

In this video I share something that happened with my 5-year-old and how I used AI to help me raise empathic and responsible multilingual children.

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[Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

Wow, Andrea, this is a really fascinating story and I really appreciate your sharing it. I don't know if I would have thought about using ChatGPT in that way, even though I use it in similar ways very frequently.

[Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

This tip may not be helpful to you, Andrea, as you may already have experimented with this, but I find that ChatGPT is very good at writing in Spanish and certain other non-English languages. My pro-tip for people using it, is I like to give a prompt like "[in Spanish] Please write a story about .... Please make sure the story is written in a natural Spanish, that reflects subtly the culture and traditions of Ecuador." Giving that extra prompt at the end I find actually does make a noticeable difference. I often then ask ChatGPT after it has written a story "Can you update this story to be even more natural in the context of Ecuadorian Spanish?" or similar prompts. It's really interesting to see how it changes.

[brianl]

I love how you’re able to incorporate languages into allll situations of your children’s lives, even consequences!

That’s what language is all about. It’s not a performance or a hobby or a school subject. It’s part of daily life!

[privateuser]

Some individuals have their parent's second language as their first language, as their parents don't share the same first language. This scenario often results in children having Esperanto as their primary language.

[sdoken]

Thank you Andrea for sharing your very helpful story! Just curious : it seems like you talk to ChatGPT in English, ask it to write a step in English and then translate it to Spanish or your minority language yourself? Do you find that it does not work as well if you ask it to write a story in your minority language to begin with?