A Local AI Stack for Language Learning

I have written before about my lazy and largely unsuccessful journey to become a polyglot. (TL;DR Duolingo doesn’t work, LanguageTransfer is cool, and the only thing that makes a difference is crossing the cringe minefield and talking to people before you know how to talk to people.) I stand by what I said, but talking to people is, like, a lot of work and super embarrassing. Here’s a way to practice your foreign language of choice that doesn’t require talking to people, in a way that feels a lot like talking to people, because you are talking, and getting natural language replies, and you have to understand what’s going on. The system has two parts (in the future, I’d like it to have three): Speak at your local AI in a foreign language It replies in text in the foreign language, correcting your grammar (Coming soon: Moonshine STT reads it aloud) Part I: Dictation in your target language, with Handy I wrote about how handy Handy is. But what’s extra handy about it, is that it’s…