Is AI good for English?

25 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video clip by Hadar Shemesh discussing whether AI is beneficial for English learners. The speaker notes practical advantages of AI-based practice (cheaper, more accessible, fairly accurate) but argues it lacks human elements—particularly interpersonal connection and mindset factors that influence real-world speaking.

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Having a robot to practice with on your phone is cheaper, it's more accessible, and usually it's pretty accurate. However, there are consequences. The human connection, and any human interaction has a lot more in it than just proper grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and all of that. When we speak to other people, there is another element that comes into play, which is our mindset. How we feel, how we show up, the thoughts we have. All of that doesn't happen when you speak to your AI tutorial.