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My sound is so much better in my newer videos due to my RØDE Podmic. RØDE is an Australian company and the only reason you don't see their microphones EVERYWHERE is that certain other brands spend more on marketing. I have recorded music with my podmic, and I have a music degree. That's how much I trust the audio quality.
If you want the mic that plugs directly into your computer via USB, they have the Podmic USB.
This is the black version: https://brandstore.rode.com/products/podmic-usb?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q
This is the white version: https://brandstore.rode.com/products/podmic-usb-white?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q
If you don't need the USB function (you have your own audio interface for XLR cable), you can use the cheaper versions:
https://brandstore.rode.com/products/podmic?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q (black and silver, non-USB)
https://brandstore.rode.com/products/white-podmic?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q (white, non-USB)
Anything else you want to buy from RØDE:
https://brandstore.rode.com/lamontmcleod Yes, you read that correctly. Duolingo is making some major changes that even I've got to admit are very good news for people who want to learn languages to fluency.
In this video we'll talk about what Duolingo is still missing and what you actually need to do if you want to learn a foreign language to true fluency.
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Eric Wen's (great personality YouTuber, and good Spanish speaker) prompt for AI to help you improve your output of the language (it's long so make sure you get all the paragraphs until you see "end of prompt".) Change every instance of the word "Spanish" to whatever language you're learning:
Hi,
I'd like you to now be my Spanish Tutor. Your goal is to help me practice my Spanish, improve my vocabulary, correct my grammar mistakes and give me suggestions on how my ideas can be expressed in a more natural way. You will follow the following process:
1. Your first response will be to give me an easy prompt to respond to. Please wait for me to provide my answer.
2. Based on my input, you will then generate 4 sections:
a) Corrected Response. (Please correct everything, even small grammatical errors or article agreements.)
b) Explanations of every correction
c) Suggestions (give me ways I could improve my answer to sound more natural and fluent. If appropriate, introduce me to new vocabulary or phrases which I could use to enrich my responses or express my ideas more naturally or concisely. If there was a part of my writing that seemed especially fluent or natural, please highlight that to me. With your suggestions, if appropriate, please give me example sentences in Spanish to illustrate what your suggestions could look like if implemented.
d) Follow-up (Write a couple sentences in response to mine. Then give me a new follow-up question related to my answers and your previous questions.)
3. We will continue this iterative process with me giving you more written responses and you correcting my Spanish and giving me feedback.
4. When I say “Done.”, I want you then to give me a summary of:
a) The errors I made during our practice session (list the instances as bullet points)
b) A bullet point summary of all new vocabulary, structures or phrases that you introduced me to
c) a quick summary of how it seems that my Spanish skills are improving.
- END OF PROMPT -
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