Five spheres, infinite exercises
The adventure mode's backend becomes a combinatoric machine, drawn live on a Discord whiteboard: level (A1-C2) selects a sphere (five general areas: personal, social, professional, physical world, culture), the sphere's per-level list yields a topic (B1 professional: scheduling a job interview; C2 professional: epistemology), a skill draw picks from eight abilities with their own per-level exercise banks, and the combined instruction goes to Severo, exercises infinite by combination. The dilemma of the title: inject the Open Subtitles frequency list as a third variable? Verdict: no, because random top-1000 words yank lessons into nonsense (hamburguesa in a job interview) and the topic itself dictates the right vocabulary; the list waits on the bench in case conversations go flat. Julia dissents with her Friends-class memory: vocabulary came before the episode.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 6:07 (las cinco esferas del currículo)
- ↳ video diary @ 11:53 (el tópico dicta la especificidad)
- ↳ video diary @ 24:10 (la objeción de Julia: vocabulario antes del episodio)
- ↳ Entry 225-2: One curriculum, thirty-eight languages (el currículo universal, ahora con motor)
The universal curriculum gets its execution engine, explained twice, the second time drawn on a Discord whiteboard until Julia can see it. The pipeline: the user’s level selects a sphere, one of five general areas, personal, social, professional, physical world, culture and abstraction ▸ 6:07; each sphere holds a per-level topic list, B1 professional yields scheduling a job interview, C2 professional yields epistemology and macroeconomics ▸ 11:41; a parallel draw picks one of eight skills, each with its own per-level exercise bank, write a five-star review, order the scrambled story ▸ 18:19; and the combination becomes Severo’s instruction, five to ten exercises per seed, rotating ▸ 7:03. The game never ends because the combinatorics don’t: “los ejercicios son infinitos” ▸ 28:50.
The day’s dilemma is whether to add a third variable: the Open Subtitles word-frequency list. The naive version condemns itself, random top-1000 words in a job lesson produce hamburguesa, niño, ciencia ▸ 8:09, what Julia calls “un yunta maluco” ▸ 8:20. His verdict: leave it out, because the topic already dictates the specificity and will surface trabajo and abogado at A1 and the specialist words at C2 on its own ▸ 11:53, with the list benched for the day exercises turn flat and monotonous ▸ 30:07.
el tópico dicta las palabras →
Julia dissents from experience: her English course taught the vocabulary before each Friends episode, because you can’t comprehend what you haven’t been armed for ▸ 24:10. His answer is the curriculum itself, prior levels already taught the words, plus the third input he’d forgotten to mention: Severo knows every word you know ▸ 26:28. Ship the simple combinatoria, keep the frequency list warm…
// continued in
no entry has continued this idea yet: the arc is still open