@Tony Marsh I was trying to use your conversation trees last night by trying to add more verbs (in igbo) like speak, give, tell and so on but I was running into difficulties deciding which vocabulary to add. However I translated what you you had into Igbo for be, have, go and do. I'll work on it some more later since I'm trapped in the snow. So how do you use your conversational tree with your notebook method?

@Tony Marsh I found a vid you did some months back here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56DJagTsmeU Although my daughter bought them Wolof books for me Christmas, I haven't delved into them yet. However, I got a notebook and was looking at a couple of videos today. In your video you mentioned that Chatgpt doesn't have a grasp on Wolof (paraphrasing). I was on there today before I seen your vid and since I am not familiar with the language I didn't add anything much to the notebook. I was trying to start with the question How are you? or Na nga def? And the verb to be for I am such and such. So according to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Fp2pBn8qA the guy says Ma ngi fi is the response and means I am fine. So I asked Chatgpt how to say I am in order to create a verb cup of a conversational tree but It gives a couple of different ways t depending on what your saying next. Mangi i think was given for I am (state/condition/location). Then I asked how to say I am not. So depending on what you want to say it can vary, but it said that the most common way to respond the Na nga def if you wanted to say I AM NOT fine is duma baax =I am not fine. But it says Duma (I am not) is used for identity and location and Maangi baax du (I am not fine) is for state and location. Maangi...du/dul I am not is supposed to be for state/condition. I can't say if it's either or lol. Sorry for being long-winded.

Question. Just to be clear. So when you are doing your verb cups before you start the first one which is the statement, is there a question before that? Like before you even reach cup three or the open-ended questions? I guess what I'm asking is that before you make the first verb cup and place the verb in the cup. Is the verb that is used determined by the question that is asked?

@Rashidah Lovick How has your learning of Levantine Arabic going? And what attracts you to that language?

@Rashidah Lovick Oh yea it's quite a bit of content on the Igbo language all over social media. Maybe not as much as Spanish, French or Italian, but I've been able to find some resources. Asusu Igbo is being promoted by Ndi Igbo very seriously because if I'm not mistaken it is one of the languages that is on the verge of going extinct. As mentioned above, I've been taking classes for the last (going on) 6 months. The folks there have 3 different classes. I'm currently about to end my 2nd class this week. So I figured I'd take a break and then take the 3rd class, but in the meanwhile I would be trying to digest all that I have learned as well as utilize newfound techniques to develop my conversational skills especially in the language . The brothers and sisters there have been great. I'm 49 lol i don't want to be wasting time "trying to learn", but I want to be able to communicate with others who speak my targeted languages asap!

@Tony Marsh I find this very helpful. So you used the verbs be, have, go and do. I can just add other verbs as seeds to the conversational trees and expand from there? Thanks once again

How effective has this been in terms of aiding you in becoming more fluent in speaking ones target language?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTwQ5Wk-jE Ok so I found this video on youtube. Is it possible to use AI to help with this self administered OPI? Or are you doing all of the questioning and answering in the audio yourself? That's in the case I couldn't find a native speaker to help me with this...Great video!