Today I want to share how I’ve been using AI—specifically ChatGPT—as both a proficiency checkpoint and a practice tool to help reach my language learning goals. Why I Still Believe in Human Evaluation Before we dive in, let me be clear: there’s no better measure of language proficiency than human evaluation. Personally, I’m a fan […]

I’m Janina Klimas—teacher, linguist, and author. I’ve been teaching languages for over 20 years on three different continents, and I speak six languages to different levels of fluency. I always like to emphasize that part: I’m not equally strong in all of them. That’s normal, and it’s important for you to remember that language skill