Innovation in Language Learning

We present LitTerra [1], a cutting-edge literary platform that supports an engaging and interactive language learning model. LitTerra offers a hybrid and inter-textual reading experience, particularly focused on multi-lingual corpora, making it an ideal tool for language learners. At its core, the LitTerra platform is generic-by-design, and as such, it supports various uses, including creative translation work [2], socially engaged art [3], and digital scholarly editing (DSE),  thanks to its generic features such as dynamic workflows, multi-annotations, AI integration, advanced layouts, collaboration, and multi-media text augmentation. By selecting a multilingual corpus of renowned literary works, we provide learners with a rich language learning resource. Our platform utilizes machine alignment and manual refinement to generate bilingual parallel texts, which are then augmented with open-world references, images, and text simplifications to facilitate comprehension. Key values proposed are: (1) Simplification: simplifying sentences using synonyms that are etymologically, phonetically, or semantically easier for learners, (2) Augmentation: words are augmented with open-world references, and images, while sentences are augmented with AI-generative images, which facilitates contextual understanding and retention , (3) Adaptive Learning Quests and Gamification: the platform collecting learned words and utilizes generative AI to generate multi-modal personalized quests and games based on learners' progress, reinforcing learning outcomes and making learning enjoyable, (4) Interactive Learning: Engaging learners with AI-driven chats and dialogues in the target language, partially evaluated for correctness using multi-lingual LLMs and embeddings, (5) User-Generated and Localized Content: Users can incorporate external content; such as poems, songs, news or social media posts, while the corpus itself provides location-related texts that makes travelers more motivate. All this enriches experience, stimulate immenrsiona and finally increases the learning experience.