Comments on: Can ChatGPT pass the HSK?

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:25:31 +0000

Recently I’ve been playing twenty questions with ChatGPT – you can restrict the mystery item to practice more specific vocab (eg “must be an inanimate object you would find inside a house”).

I’ve also used it to generate mnemonics for hanzi (although it’s annoyingly puritanical).

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 03:56:42 +0000

Oh – one other shortcoming is that I haven’t found a way to restrict the vocabulary it uses in the exercises (I tried specifying the HSK level but to no avail). But I don’t find that too much of an issue.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 03:53:36 +0000

I’ve been using ChatGPT to create grammar exercises (for example, I might use the grammar points in a textbook chapter that we’re studying). I’ll prompt it to write me a summary lesson and then drill me with sentences to translate, critique my answers, and suggest any improvements. In each lesson I’ll give it a list of 6 or so grammar points to cover at a time. I’m using GPT4 and the Prompt Perfect add in.

The results have definitely helped me to practice – I especially like getting the immediate critique of my translations and the suggestions for improvement and I can ask for clarification. So it’s a lot more useful than just doing exercises from textbooks.

I do find that if I give it too much content to cover it tends to omit stuff from the exercises so 6 topics at a time seems about right. I create a new chat for each new batch of topics and go back and practice the old ones from my history from time to time.

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:17:36 +0000

In reply to Pierre. Yeah, I saw that one too! But thanks for recommending it, I spend less and less time on Reddit these days. I've tried similar things, always with pretty bad results. This is on my list of things to evaluate more properly and write about, for sure!

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:10:07 +0000

Came across this Reddit post: you can ask Chatgpt to write graded reader. The few tests I did gave me articles similar to what TCB are proposing (at least for HSK4):
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/116wpqb/found_out_today_that_chatgpt_can_be_used_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

By: F

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:07:31 +0000

One could use ChatGPT to generate mnemonics/sentences for learning Hanzi. Where the generated mnemonic would contain the components and radicals of the Hanzi and one or several meanings. It would be easy to build a mental garden/castle this way so that all mnemonics relate to the same theme. E.g. a walk in a magic forest or any area of interest of the student. Together with a DALL-E generated image and anki this could be a powerful and customizable tool.