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Today, Dietmar helps you learn languages - or at least shows you how ChatGPT can help you with it.

For that, we look at a hack that let's you start with what you already know: similar words! Because if you start with those, you start quicker. Details about the theory you'll find in the podcast ;)

Here is the prompt, Dietmar used to generate the first part of the word set:

Dear GPT, you are now an experienced Spanish teacher with a lot of experience in both didactics and linguistics. Create a list of 100 Spanish words based on the following criterion: they are similar in spelling and/or pronunciation to English vocabulary. Rate the vocabulary according to their importance for spoken language with a value from 1 (very important) to 5 (rather unimportant). Importance in this case is defined as: frequency of use and importance of the term for basic activities and interests that a tourist might have. Here are some examples of words: - el animal: animal - el hospital: hospital - el sistema: system Please exclude words that are generally easy to learn but do not have a similarity to English words. Please present the results in a table with the columns: "Spanish", "English" and "Importance".

And here is the first list after using the prompts 5 times, for nouns, verbs, adverbs etc. This list, you can upload to a learning program/App like Card2Brain.

Any questions? Just write me: dietmar@argo.berlin

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with David East about Google’s new cloud based full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow, Project IDX.

Show Notes

• 00:22 Welcome
• 01:31 Browser in the car
• 02:16 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:24 Who is David East?
• David East
• David East
• David East (@_davideast) / X
• Learn from David East’s courses | Frontend Masters
• Firebase | Google’s Mobile and Web App Development Platform
• 04:32 What is IDX?
• Project IDX
• Flutter - Build apps for any screen
• Welcome to nix.dev — nix.dev documentation
• 13:15 What’s the experience of IDX?
• Nx: Smart, Fast and Extensible Build System
• 16:42 IDX isn’t just a toy - it’s a dev machine
• 20:29 What’s the offline mode like?
• 23:30 How are VS Code extensions handled?
• 27:03 Is multiplayer or project sharing on the road map?
• 28:45 How is latency taken care of?
• 31:43 This could be faster than local dev environment
• 36:18 Portability of your projects
• 42:25 What do you think about iPad coding?
• 44:28 Phone testing with IDX
• Firebase Test Lab
• 46:59 How is AI being integrated?
• 50:23 Supper Club questions
• Introducing Operator | Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
• MD IO by Mass-Driver - Future Fonts
• 55:25 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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