English Listening - ChatGPT

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Welcome to the Listening Time Podcast. Hey, English learners, this is Conner, and you're listening to episode 257 of the Listening Time Podcast. I hope you're doing great, I hope your English learning is going well, and that this podcast has helped you improve your listening comprehension. In today's episode, I'm gonna talk about ChatGPT, and in particular, I'm gonna talk about how I use ChatGPT. People use AI for many different purposes and reasons nowadays, and so I'll talk a little bit about how I use it. So I'm sure this will be a fun episode. Many people like talking about this. And before we start, remember that if you need my help to improve your pronunciation and your listening, then make sure to join my membership so you can get my specialized pronunciation training and listening training. That link to sign up is down below. And also check out my US Conversations podcast if you wanna start listening to my conversations that I have with other English teachers from all around the country. It's great practice for your listening and it's also a lot of fun. That link is also down below.

Okay, let's talk about ChatGPT. So I've recently started to use this tool more. In the past, I didn't use it much, but recently I've started using it a lot more frequently. It has become a very useful tool for me, and perhaps I don't use it for all the things that other people use it for, but I have found some different things that it has come in handy for. When something comes in handy, this means that it proves to be useful or helpful for you. So, the first thing that I want to talk about, one thing that ChatGPT has been very helpful for, is learning about certain subjects. This could be just for fun, out of curiosity, or things that are more important to me. So, recently I read a book about the English language, and I wanted to dig deeper, as we might say, like go further into the subject. And so, I started asking ChatGPT different questions related to languages. For example, I wanted to know how close the Swedish and Norwegian are, or Danish and Norwegian, and I wanted to compare the closeness between these languages with the closeness between Spanish and Portuguese, and different things like that.

I started asking a lot of language related questions, not just about English, but other languages and potential influences between English and other languages. So ChatGPT is great for things like that. I can ask a really specific question and get a very detailed answer.

That was very cool to learn about different languages using ChatGPT.

I also use it to ask about usages of certain English words.

There are some words that I feel like I know how to use them.

I feel like I know their meaning, but not quite. And this is specifically the case when it comes to older words, more archaic words that aren't really used that much nowadays. Sometimes I feel like I know the meaning and the usage of these words, but then I check the meaning and usage using ChatGPT, and I realize that I was a little off, meaning I wasn't 100% correct in my assumptions. So it has been helpful to learn the usage of certain words in English that I'm not 100% comfortable with. So all these questions related to language and words, these are things that I have learned a lot about. By using ChatGPT. So those things are things that it has helped me with. These are mostly things just out of curiosity for fun, but these are things that I want to learn. So that has been helpful to have ChatGPT to ask it those questions. And not only do I use it for these fun questions, questions that are just from my curiosity or interest, I also use it to get important information that I absolutely need. And of course, you can just use the internet in general to get whatever information you're looking for. However, using ChatGPT helps in the sense that you don't have to scour the internet, meaning you don't have to do this extensive research and look through all the results and see what they say, and that takes a while. Whereas ChatGPT can give you a very detailed, specific response that includes the different information that you need, and you can ask it a very specific question and talk about your specific situation, for example. And that's something that you can't do very easily without AI. So, for example, just recently, there was a health-related issue that I needed information about. Someone close to me had a health issue, and I really needed to know what to do in that situation, what warning signs to look out for, meaning signs that there could be something serious and you need to go to the emergency room, for example. So I needed to know those signs, what to watch out for, like what to be aware of, what to look for in terms of possible dangerous situations that we wanted to avoid. And so it was really helpful to use ChatGPT in this situation because I was able to describe the exact situation that this person was in, their exact symptoms, their exact situation, and it was very helpful. It told us the exact things we needed to look out for, the exact warning signs, the probability of the situation being one thing or another thing, depending on the specific details we were giving it. So it was very useful.