I’ve been on level 17, but after 1 year without studying, I forgot everything. So I started anew last month. I’m at level 5, so there are already a bunch of words in level 4 that I could practice if I had the right text.
So I got my list of known words at wkstats and asked ChatGPT to make me a text using only kana and the words i gave it. This is what I got:
Welcome back!
And just so you know, the general advice about ChatGPT is to be weary, as it makes mistakes often enough, and will be completely confident in them. The issue is, if you’re not advanced enough, you won’t be able to tell when it’s right or wrong, and may end up getting some bad info stuck with you.
I’ve been using it to make reading comprehension tests, for example, based on this text, you ask it to make 5 questions to assess comprehension and ask it to answer them afterward, if the prompt is good enough the results are wonderful.
People are right that sometimes it’s a BS machine, but I’m all for using it
For example i’m seeing kanjis beyond level 4, that was a mistake
This is how math problems start. Just gotta change the rest to “what’s the probability that when she pulls 3 marbles out of her pocket, all of them will be red?”.
Though I am wondering what it means with “…形もそれぞれ違い”. Isn’t the point of a marble that it’s a sphere? Therefore it rolls?
And this somewhat feels like when I get told to use some words in an essay, and I just can’t fit in a few of them at all. I’m sure raising and lowering marbles is just a ton of friends for kids and adults alike.
I think it should use は in the first sentence instead of が. Plus, I found it strange to use the adjectival form before the commas. I think I’m rather used to seeing the adverbial form (i.e. 三つは赤く) for continuation. But I guess the latter point is maybe not wrong, just unusual?
Didn’t read further than the first paragraph so I cannot comment on the rest.
Thought about that, but I’m sure, even if I say that in Japanese, Japanese people will be quite puzzled by what exactly I mean.
But don’t get me wrong, it’s a lovely story, grammar is a bit simplistic in places, but it’s the sort of story I’d expect to find in a random textbook trying to teach that week’s vocab. It’s cute.
Hmm, when introduced for the first time, が is correct, I thought. は makes it feel like you should know about her already.
I think it makes sense here since the continuation is 〜ものでした. But it does feel kind of weird at first.
One sentence that I didn’t understand logically at first read was ある日、女の子は二人の男の子と一緒に、ふじ山と川に行きました。
Listing places you visit with と (or rather, specifying a place that has both ふじ山 and 川 with と) felt a bit weird to me.
Just reread the Jay Rubin chapter about this and he says old fairytales and such use が because like you said, they need to introduce the characters properly “At Mt. Fuji there lived a girl.”, while modern stories (especially short stories) just dump you into a scene and give you the feeling of knowing it all already, by using は. Thanks for reminding me of this!
That’s what I meant, you can argue that it’s just a qualifier of もの which would be correct in the adjectival form.
Also, we already have 違う in its masu-stem continuation form, so it feels doubly weird to me to break this pattern.
Bottom line: ChatGPT might want to attend a class on creative writing, I guess
That’s awesome. Having stories with only vocab we know from Wanikani at each level would be great, especially for beginners, but proof reading them would take too much time.
Thank you!
Yes, I know it’s far from perfect, but after finishing a lesson we always want more, and this is some more I thought I could handle. Unfortunately, I couldn’t, but someone with more knowledge could make some use from this idea.
I won’t argue against it being a BS machine, but even though it can be pretty useful. And yes, there are level 32 kanji, but nonetheless it seems to be a fairly easy text.
