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Before my last inquiry posts, I was trying to come up with ideas on what to discuss. I considered doing a movie review about the movies I talked about in my 7th post, but unfortunately, time keeps slipping away! However, during my first meeting with Micheal, I remembered that he suggested I try to converse with AI in Yoruba using ChatGPT and wondered why I shouldn’t try it now. Honestly, my Yoruba skills are not up to par just yet, but I wanted to try it. I also wanted to see if ChatGPT would suggest additional Yoruba language learning sources or could even give me a Yoruba lesson. Here’s a link to the conversation I had. Some words or sentences I did know, so I used Google Translate, which is never really accurate, but I used it on purpose to see if ChatGPT would catch on to the mistakes, which it did.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67e872aa-e12c-800f-b087-83a6f13634c3

Here’s some screenshots of the conversation:

Overall, I really enjoyed it; it was way better than I expected. It corrected my mistakes and taught me how to say new words and phrases. It was also good to have the speech function to hear how they are pronounced, though I played it for Ibrahim and said most of the pronunciation was off 😂 so maybe not so helpful. But the spelling of the words was correct. 

Next, I was curious if ChatGPT could offer me some additional resources to help my learning, and here is what it said: 

After a quick search of resources, most were helpful and accurate, except for Duolingo, as they do not offer Yoruba as a language to learn, and I knew that beforehand. However, I wanted to give ChatGPT the benefit of the doubt and search it up, and it confirmed that Duolingo doesn’t have Yoruba. Nevertheless, I came across a Reddit post about it, and someone suggested Sebmita, which is very similar to Duolingo, and you can learn Yoruba and other African languages. I gave it a try, and I have to say I prefer it over Bluebird Yoruba because there are more quizzes to do to test your comprehension, and it is more beginner-friendly. However, I think Bluebird Yoruba is still functional, and I will be using both to continue my Yoruba learning journey. 

Lastly, the word of the day is jàgùdà, which means thief.