I think learning from another human being live who can understand your confusingly articulated questions and who can adjust their answers for you, another human being, that's great.
But I will say Gemini / Claude have both been surprisingly good at understanding my half-assed attempts to put a complicated question into a coherent sentence.
Now its viable with AI to do it cheaply.
Where is the data that shows this sort of technology beats normal pedagogy?
From a study I read that came out last year, AI tutors are at best no better than a teacher, and whats worse is that AI tutor use caused many students to become dependent on them. These students could not recall information or perform nearly as well without them.
This is just another example of a long line of behavior from software engineers thinking they are god's gifted people, who can waltz into any industry and revolutionize it overnight with an application.
Have you tried a Chinese-trained LLM for learning Mandarin, and if so, did it help?
The obstacle with LLMs is that they are specifically going at their own uncanny valley pace. I do see how that might be not a problem for some prompts.
I haven't tried a Chinese-trained LLM for learning Mandarin, so I'm not sure which LLM is best..