The Future of Learning English

Well, hello everyone, and welcome to this English

lesson, which isn't really an English lesson.

It's more just Bob's thoughts on what the

future of learning English will look like.

I think there's a couple of things that are going to

change what it's like to learn a language in the future,

and I just want to talk about each of them for

a bit, so hopefully you find this video interesting.

The first thing I want to talk about is AI I

and you might think, Bob, you're late to the party.

AI was a big thing a year ago.

We've been using AI already to learn

English and I think you're probably right.

I'm a little late to the party, but I

don't think AI is where it's at yet

in terms of a tool. I think it's very useful.

I think it's awesome.

But I think what the future

holds is something even cooler.

Eventually I think you will have

a personalized English language AI tutor.

I think it's probably about six months to a year away.

Someone will invent it, or maybe it exists already

and you can tell me in the comments below.

But I think eventually you will have a tutor that you

talk to every day, that you write to every day and

writes back to you that you can have conversations with.

Like you can actually talk and hear the AI tutor

and it will study and correct your English speaking.

I think the AI tutor will

simulate different conversations with you.

It will simulate being at a restaurant, it

will simulate buying gas at a gas station.

It will do all kinds of really cool things

like that to help you practice your English conversation.

And hopefully it's really, really cheap.

I hope it doesn't cost a lot of money.

So I think that's where AI is really going to shine.

Once we have an AI that is tailored to you, an AI

that knows what you know and what you don't know, and then

is able to help you get better at speaking English.

And so I think that'll be really cool.

It'll be cool when an AI tells you, hey, you

made that mistake yesterday, let's practice it a bit more

in a really friendly tone in a way that doesn't

make you feel bad for making that mistake.

So I think that's somewhere in the future.

I think right now AI is really

cool for generating stories, helping you learn

vocabulary, having little written conversations.

But I think the future is going to be

cooler when it actually remembers who you are and

helps you every step along the way, making the

conversation just a little more challenging.

Can you imagine an AI that helps you

learn three or four new words every time

you talk to it and intentionally uses them

in the conversation and teaches you the meaning.

That would be very cool.

The second way I think the future of English

learning is going to change is with VR, virtual

reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality.

There are a lot of names for it.

But when I see the videos with the Apple Vision Pro

headset, and when I see what can be done with it,

I think we're looking into a future soon where you'll be

able to see things around you that aren't in reality, and

then the headset can help you learn those things.

I can imagine, along with an AI simulating actually going

into a restaurant and ordering your food and having your

food brought to you, all virtually of course.

And then maybe they bring you the wrong food, and

then you can ask the server for the right food.

So I think virtual reality, I think headsets.

I think it's in its infancy.

When something's in its infancy, it

means it's not there yet.

But I think we're a year or two away.

Certainly the cost is prohibitive.

I would love to have an Apple vision Pro headset,

but I think they're $3,500 or somewhere in that range.

I don't have that kind of money.

By the way, I hope you're learning a

couple of little interesting phrases from me today,

like, it's not quite there yet.

I don't have that kind of money.

Those are little phrases we use to

describe things that are expensive or things

that aren't developed fully yet.

So anyways, the future, I think

AI will get better and better.

I think it will eventually... it will know what you don't know.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, it will know what you don't know and

then help you learn a little bit every day

so you get better and better at it.

And I just think a conversation with an AI is

way less stressful than a conversation with a human.

And then augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality,

we'll come up with the official term eventually.

But yeah, I think once it's

not cost prohibitive, once it's cheaper.

Maybe someday you'll be sitting with your VR headset

on and instead of watching one of my live

streams, we'll be in the same virtual room together

and you can interact with me. We'll see.

Who knows what the future holds.

Anyways, just some thoughts from me

about the future of English learning.

I would love to hear your thoughts below.

Especially, I would like to

hear what you're already doing.

So in the comments below, let me know

how you're using AI or Chat GPT.

Let me know if you got a Vision

Pro headset and how well it works.

I'd be really, really curious.

But anyways, thanks for just listening to my thoughts.

Remember, this video does have a full transcript.

You can turn the subtitles on, and I put a

link to the full transcript in the first comment below,

and a link in the description of this video as

well, so you can read along if I'm talking a

little too fast for you to understand.

Anyways, thanks for watching. Bye.