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Language Learning · by Oussama Alaoui · 2026-10-27

Non-English speakers pay a 'tokenizer tax' with AI - does it affect your learning tools?

Languages that tokenize poorly cost more and sometimes get worse quality from LLMs. If you use AI chat for practice in less common languages, have you noticed it being worse?

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Cedar Comet · 12 likes

for Finnish it's okay but it invents grammar sometimes. always double check with a native

Midnight Sparrow · 10 likes

Persian practice with AI is noticeably worse than Spanish, it mixes formal and informal constantly