Google announced three new AI efforts on Tuesday that are intended to provide more individualized language learning assistance. Gemini, Google’s multimodal huge language model, may be the tool the firm uses to compete with Duolingo, albeit the trials are still in their early phases.

You can rapidly learn the phrases you need in the moment with the first trial, and you can sound more natural and less formal with the second.

In the third experiment, you can learn new words by using your camera to record your environment.

One of the most annoying aspects of learning a new language, according to Google, is running into a circumstance where you require a particular term that you haven’t yet mastered.

You can describe a scenario, like “finding a lost passport,” to get context-specific vocabulary and grammar advice using the new “Tiny Lesson” experiment. Additionally, comments such as “I don’t know where I lost it” or “I want to report it to the police” are suggested.

“Slang Hang,” the next project, aims to make people sound less like textbook speakers when they speak a new language. Google is experimenting with ways to educate individuals to speak more casually and with local slang because it claims that learning a new language frequently results in learning to speak formally.

This tool allows you to create a conversation between native speakers that is realistic and watch as it develops message by message. A street vendor conversing with a customer or two long-lost friends meeting up on the metro are two examples of situations where you can learn. To find out the definition and usage of terms you’re unfamiliar with, you can hover over them.

Users should cross-reference the experiment with credible sources because, according to Google, it occasionally misuses particular lingo and invents terms.

The next experiment, called “Word Cam,” allows you to take a picture of your environment. Gemini then recognizes objects and labels them in the language you are learning. Additionally, the feature provides you with more terms to describe the objects.

According to Google, sometimes all you need are words to describe what’s right in front of you since it might reveal how much you still don’t know. For example, you might be familiar with the word for “window,” but you might not be familiar with the word for “blinds.”

According to the company, the goal of these experiments is to determine how AI may be applied to enhance the dynamic and personalized nature of independent learning.

Arabic, Chinese (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan), English (Australia, U.K., U.S.), French (Canada, France), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Latin America, Spain), and Turkish are among the languages supported by the new tests. Google Labs provides access to the tools.