AI and Language Learning… Does It Still Make Sense to Learn a Foreign Language?



Today, we will look into if it still makes sense to learn a foreign language today. Learning a foreign language is a huge time commitment, and we could do lots of other things in our time. So it just makes sense to ask ourselves why we are doing it and if it’s worth it.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 – Start
01:07 – Main Challenges for Non-human Translators
01:56 – Short History and Types of Machine Translation
04:11 – Todays Technology
07:21 – What’s to come?
08:42 – Still a Good Idea to Learn Foreign Languages?

▬ Resources mentioned ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Rule-based machine translation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_machine_translation

Statistical machine translation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation

Neural machine translation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_Translation

Adaptive machine translation
https://berns-language-consulting.de/language/en/blog/smt-nmt-adaptive-mt-pemt-what-does-that-mean-exactly/

Timekettle
https://www.timekettle.co/

Big Bong Timekettle Review

Google Pixel Buds

Skype Translator
https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-translator/

Google Translate
https://translate.google.com/

DeepL
https://www.deepl.com/translator

Trint
https://trint.com/

No Language left behind
https://ai.facebook.com/research/no-language-left-behind/

Steve Kaufmann
https://www.youtube.com/c/Thelinguist

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