2023-07-19
41 分钟Hi, everybody.
My name is Shawna, and this is the american English podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it.
Welcome back to this week's episode.
Today we have a special guest named Ben whateley.
Maybe you know him.
He's the co founder and chief strategy officer at Memrise, one of the most celebrated language apps there is.
Ben received his master's in experimental psychology from Oxford University and has since been working with language acquisition.
In fact, hes a pioneer in the field.
Ben helped create the first AI language partner using GPT-3 technology.
Its called the Membot.
Yeah, ill repeat that.
Ben helped create an AI language partner.
Is this the future?
It may be.
If youre interested in trying it out, ill provide a link in the episode notes.
In any case, today I had the pleasure of tapping into his knowledge with the goal of finding out how we can learn better.
In our chat, Ben and I talk about common misconceptions in language learning, the genius of mnemonic devices, and how to acquire new vocabulary effectively.