What I like about it is that it could help me understand a new language. Sometimes it’s easy to follow what’s going on, but sometimes there are just odd language conventions that I’m not used to.
I use it to get familiar with various concepts and idioms in languages I don’t know at all, and also for ones I feel comfortable with, where there are parts I’d like to understand and perhaps use in future. It’s incredible!
I’ve been learning it for over a year because I want to be able to speak to my wife in her native language. So far I’m loving to learn it for the exact reason you said, the way sentences are pieces together is outright fun to me. I’m also amazed by how much information can be packed in a small combination of characters.
Plus it's awareness of proper idioms in each language and syntax checking makes me much smarter/productive in a new language. Also, it's spell checker keeps me honest. Go for that "green check mark" in the upper right corner and you know you avoided most common mistakes.
I was thinking the same thing! I think it in itself should be useful as a starting point for learning many languages, by just translating them literally into the language of choice.
I find it really helpful when dabbling in a language that you haven’t used much.
For example: If you’re an expert in language A, and you want to do something common in A in language B, you can ask GPT to show you the idiomatic way of doing it in B and it will usually lead you down the right path (or tell you it’s not possible).
I use this + Rosetta code to get a grasp of a language. I would be able to write something big in the language, but learnxinyminutes.com and Rosetta code allow me to translate bits of code or understand a language I otherwise wouldn't know.
I speak a bunch of languages, and this is especially helpful when learning languages that have a specific own idiomatic sentence structure. You get a pretty good insight into how people form sentences in their native language based on how they garble English. You can often derive where people are from based on those typical mistakes, even in a few sentences on an online forum.
I always go back to it to try something I've done in another language. I have not attempted anything big with it, but that is due to my concatenative language skills rather than any limitation by Factor.
Learning a new language is a really cool use case. Especially when it gets to the point where you can talk with it and it corrects pronunciation, etc. even just the practise of random conversation is a cool idea.
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