At this age, AI is so advanced that the truth, whether bitter or sweet, is that with AI you don't need to learn any language. As long as you have access to good AI translators you can travel anywhere in the world and communicate with ease, oh the wonders and beauty of technology. Of course, the only problem would be not having access to good AI translators, and the fact that although we are developing and advancing as humans not everyone is accustomed to AI. I know there are some people out there who would curse you in their language the moment you try using AI on them.
In my opinion, having AI translators isn't a bad thing.
Some people would argue that it would make people lazy and not inclined to learn languages. Some people would put it like this “AI translators are slowly eating away at 1000-year-old cultures by crippling the ability to speak the languages". Some would just argue that it makes people lazy. But if we are being for real nothing can stop anyone interested in learning any language from learning, as a matter of fact these AIs can help a lot.
Growing up I never got the hang of either my maternal or paternal original language. It wasn't only me, the rest of my siblings were in it together.
My dad always tried to blame it on us as being dull and not sharp but even he knew that was bullshit.
Right from the womb my parents only speak proper English to their kids, not once did they use any other language.
So I don't know why he lied to himself when we all know babies don't particularly have any language pre-installed.
I wish I had a translator back then because it was annoying the way people in the village just started speaking a foreign language and expected you to understand, even when you had said a hundred times that you didn't.
The worst part was when my mom would purposely talk to us in her language knowing fully well we wouldn't understand, just to call us dumb when we acted dumb.
In boarding school, the same thing happened all over.
The school which had many indigenous students decided it was a good idea to teach their language when they knew very well people like me stood no chance as learning it, not like they even taught us well, no, they just made us buy books in their language and made us pass the exam in a way only known to them because I can say boldly with my full chest my script for that exam was always empty and the objective answer paper was completed before receiving the question papers.
It was the same thing with French, but French was the only one I was actually interested in. Their crippled system made many hate the French but I never did. Infact just recently before this topic I started a self-teaching journey on Duolingo, youtube and a French lesson online site.
Of course, I can simply decide to abandon all the stress and just commit to using AI translators which is not wrong in any way.
But I have chosen French as a language I want to understand and be able to write and then speak.
