By skyforbes Hello everyone,
I've been experimenting with Gemini's "Guided Learning Mode" to learn Japanese from a text document, and it is working really well…for the first sentence:
- I upload a page of text (e.g., from a book or article).
- I initiate a guided learning session focusing on a specific line (e.g., "Analyze line 5 for me").
- It guides me through the vocabulary, grammar, and nuance of that line, asking me what I already know and intervening only when I explicitly state I don't understand a concept.
But once we finish analyzing the current line, Gemini often struggles to move on to the next sequential line in the original document:
- It sometimes jumps ahead 2-3 lines.
- It sometimes jumps to the correct next line but then modifies or summarizes the text before asking for my interpretation.
- When I correct it ("That's not what the next line says; the next line starts with [XYZ]…"), it acknowledges the mistake ("I see, let's focus on the line you mentioned"), but then it gets stuck trying to guide me through the modified/invented line. "I understand, but let's first finish this lien that you are avoiding…"
When I tell it, "Look back at the file, the next line starts with XYZ." This works about 70% of the time, depending on how "stuck" it is on teaching me its own fabricated sentence.
Do you have any suggestions for an initial prompt that could prevent this?
Thanks,