ChatGPT Prompts for Language Learners

With ChatGPT, you can ask questions, engage in conversations, and practise your speaking skills without worrying about making mistakes. Robots don’t judge!

In this post, you’ll find a variety of ChatGPT prompts that you can use to improve your language skills. Just remember, ChatGPT is NOT a replacement for real-life conversation practice or a language teacher. While it can be helpful for practising and improving your language skills and providing general explanations and examples of language concepts, it can’t offer the same level of support as a language teacher.

To fully develop your language skills, be sure to supplement ChatGPT with other language learning resources and activities.

ChatGPT Prompts

If you'd like ChatGPT to explain certain grammar or vocabulary aspects:

Can you explain [what] [how to do what]? Can you provide examples?

•  “Can you provide three examples of sentences using the past simple tense to describe past events?”

• “Can you explain the difference in meaning between ‘few’ and ‘a few’ using two specific examples?”

• “Can you provide a list of five common phrasal verbs with the word ‘get’ and their definitions?”

• “Can you provide three examples of sentences using the present perfect tense to describe past events that are still relevant in the present?”

• “Can you provide three examples of common idioms and their meanings, along with a sentence using each idiom?”

If you need to check the corrrectness of your piece of writing:

Please check/review [what]:  

• Copy your questions from the Question Chart and ask the chatbot to “Act as my teacher and check the accuracy of [insert your questions].”

• Paste your paragraph and ask ChatGPT to correct or paraphrase it.

If you'd like to learn how to act in certain situations:

Act as if [who] [where]. How would you [do what]?

• “Act as if you are meeting someone for the first time. How would you introduce yourself and start a conversation?”

• “Act as if you are in a job interview. How would you answer the question, ‘Tell me about yourself?”

• “Act as if you are at a party and want to start a conversation with a stranger. How would you start the conversation and keep it going?”

• “Act as if you are having a disagreement with a friend. How would you express your perspective and try to resolve the conflict?”

• “Act as if you are giving a presentation to a group of people. How would you grab their attention and keep them engaged throughout your presentation?”

Communication skills: Get the chatbot to ask you questions/engage in a role-play

Act as [who] and ask me questions about [what]

• “Act as an interviewer and ask me the interview questions for the *** position. Ask me a question and wait for my answer. Then ask another question. End the interview when I say ‘thank you for your time’. Provide feedback on how I performed.”

• “Act as a customer service representative and ask me questions about a product I am interested in purchasing. Ask me a question and wait for my answer. Then ask another question. End the conversation when I say ‘thank you for your help’. Provide feedback on how I did in terms of expressing my needs and concerns.”

• “Act as a journalist and ask me questions about a news story I have recently read. Ask me a question and wait for my answer. Then ask another question. End the interview when I say ‘thank you for your time’. Provide feedback on how I did in terms of discussing the article and expressing my opinions.”

• “Act as a teacher and ask me questions about *** a lesson I have recently learned. Ask me a question and wait for my answer. Then ask another question. End the session when I say ‘thank you for your time’. Provide feedback on how I did in terms of understanding and applying the concepts.”

Play games

Let’s play [game: rules]

• “Start a game of ’20 Questions.’ You can ask me yes or no questions to try and guess the word I’m thinking of. I’ll give you a hint: it’s a type of fruit.

• “Let’s play ‘Two Truths and a Lie.’ Give me  three statements about yourself, and I’ll try to guess which one is the lie.”

• “Let’s play a game of ‘Would You Rather.’ I’ll give you two options and you have to choose which one you would prefer.

• “Let’s play a game of ‘I Spy.’ I’ll give you a clue and you have to guess the object I’m thinking of. The clue is: “It’s something you wear on your feet.”

If you are eager to try something more challenging, you can try and play some adventure games:

Pretend you are a text-based adventure game set in [setting]. You must make choices [number of options] to navigate through the game.

• “Pretend you are a text-based adventure game set in the world of Harry Potter. You start out with 100 health and must make choices (A, B, or C) to navigate through the game.”

• “Pretend you are a text-based adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. You start out with 50 health and must make choices (A, B, C, or D) to navigate through the game.”

• “Pretend you are a text-based adventure game set in a magical forest. You must make choices (A, B, C, or D) to navigate through the game.