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How to learn English with AI every day
Talk to the AI by voice, ask for gentle correction, practice real situations and review words. Fifteen minutes a day beat a course left on hold.
bairogonzalez.com team, drawing on Bairo's story · Published
Artificial intelligence has changed the way people learn English, and also Spanish, French or any other language. Before, practicing conversation required a teacher or a native-speaker friend. Today, several assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, among others) talk by voice, understand when you mix in your own language, correct you patiently and simulate real situations: a job interview, ordering at a restaurant, a work meeting. With fifteen minutes a day of conversation and review, progress shows up within a few weeks.
AI doesn't replace contact with people, but it takes away the fear of making mistakes, which is the biggest obstacle for anyone learning a language as an adult.
Why AI is not a chatbot
Learning a language from a chatbot with canned answers would be impossible. Today's AI converses, improvises and adapts to your level, which makes it a training partner.
In Bairo's view, AI is an extension of you. He says that "artificial intelligence is an extension of the human, not the problem." For someone learning another language, the image is concrete: the tool extends your voice to the other side of the border while you're still learning to cross it on your own.
Step by step today
- Find out your level without embarrassment:
I want to learn English. Give me a quick level test:
ask me 10 questions, from easy to hard, one at a time. At the end,
tell me my level and what I most need to practice.
- Set a concrete goal. "Do a job interview in English in 3 months" works better than "learn English."
- Talk by voice every day. Open voice mode and ask:
Let's have a simple conversation about my day. Speak slowly,
use easy words, and after each of my answers, correct only my
most important mistake, in Portuguese, before continuing.
- Simulate real situations. Ask the AI to play a recruiter, a hotel receptionist, a customer, a doctor during a trip. Repeat the same situation until you're comfortable.
- Build your word notebook. At the end of each conversation:
List the 10 new words and expressions from this conversation, with
a translation, an example sentence and the pronunciation written the way
a Brazilian would understand it.
- Review with questions. The next day, ask for a mini test with the previous day's words.
- Read and listen to things you like. Song lyrics, news about your team, a recipe. Paste a passage and ask for an explanation of the hard parts.
- Write a little each week. A message, an email, a paragraph about yourself. Ask for corrections explaining the reason for each mistake.
- Talk to real people. Conversation groups, colleagues, online language exchanges. AI prepares you; human conversation consolidates it.
A possible routine for those short on time: five minutes reviewing the previous day's words, ten minutes of voice conversation about anything in your day and, once a week, a longer simulation of the situation you fear most. After a month, ask the AI to compare a conversation from today with one from the beginning and point out what improved.
How Bairo did it
Bairo Leandro Gonzalez Martinez knows what it is to live between languages. Born in Colombia, he said from boyhood that he would live in Brazil, and he says capoeira was the first thing from the country he learned with his body, before the language. He arrived in 2002 and built his life in Portuguese.
Later, he built businesses in several countries and, without knowing how to code, spent six months at home, in front of the computer, building the foundation of the platform and the artificial intelligence of CEASA Bank, a financial platform for agribusiness. One of the fronts he founded, Xperienc, proposes Global Language, a translator so that patients and health professionals can each speak in their own language. For him, language should never be the wall between two people.
Precautions
When practicing with AI, don't share intimate details or personal data just because you're "practicing conversation"; check expressions and grammar in reliable dictionaries (the tool sometimes invents or mixes variants); don't use machine translation for official documents, medical appointments or contracts without a professional; and remember that AI can reproduce stereotypes about accents and countries; your accent isn't a flaw, it's where you come from.