I’ve come up with a fun way to practice written conversations in norsk—by taunting my AI practice partner.
If that sounds like fun, just step behind this curtain and I’ll show you the game.
One technique I often use to improve my Norwegian is to create “study blocks”. From a few sentences to a few paragraphs, each block focuses on a specific aspect of the language I want to explore. For example, I have one that demonstrates a spectrum of common adverbial intensifiers that range from slightly (litt) to extremely (ekstremt). But after comparing the text for such a block, how do I then get it into Frankie?
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In the world of FrankenTongues, each block will be independent of the others, and they’re usually comprised of complete sentences, so it makes sense for them to be ingested as a corpus.
It’s also fairly clear that the cut/paste clipboard is the most logical place to load the text from, rather than having to jump through the hoops of putting it into a text document first. But what room of the castle should they be in? I think maybe the Study.
Update later that same day:
Here’s what the first implementation looks like running in the TUI. (Clunky, but it actually works. :-)
