https://wip.tf/tags/ai/ Recent content in Ai on Wɪᴘ In Progress… Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:26:13 -0400 https://wip.tf/posts/building-a-trilingual-kid-alphabet/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:23:46 -0500 https://wip.tf/posts/building-a-trilingual-kid-alphabet/ <div class="text-to-speech-container"> <span class="text-to-speech-label">Listen to this post:</span> <audio class="text-to-speech-audio" controls> <source src="https://wip.tf/audio/tts/building-a-trilingual-kid-alphabet.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> </audio> </div> <script> (function() { var a = document.createElement('audio'); if (a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType('audio/wav')) { var els = document.querySelectorAll('.text-to-speech-container'); for (var i = 0; i < els.length; i++) els[i].style.display = 'flex'; } })(); </script> <figure class="floatright"> <img src="images/final-physical-thumb.jpg" alt="Printed version of the English/French/Portuguese alphabet poster" data-fullsize="images/final-physical.jpg"> </figure> <p>We speak <strong>English</strong>, <strong>Portuguese</strong> and <strong>French</strong> at home, and learning the alphabet can be tricky when it gets to letter examples: &ldquo;G as in <strong>Grapefruit</strong>&rdquo;, but that&rsquo;s <strong>Pamplemousse</strong> in French and <strong>Toranja</strong> in Portuguese, so the correspondence doesn&rsquo;t work in other languages and can lead to confusion.</p>