Bring one piece of real text — a newspaper article works well — and this will build a short set of prompts to work through it with: context, vocabulary, sentence-by-sentence reading, and the real issue behind it.
Pick any local language — this works the same way whichever one you're building.
→ No text handy? Open any local-language news site, pick a short article, and paste one or two paragraphs in.
Copy this into ChatGPT or Gemini. Each later step includes the article again too, so the AI always has the actual text in front of it rather than relying on memory — but keep this same chat open through step 4, since the closing summary there depends on remembering how you did earlier on.
It turns the AI into a quizmaster instead of a dictionary: meaningful words and short phrases from the article, script plus transliteration, meaning held back until you've guessed, and one clean word list to copy out at the end. Best kept in the same chat as step 2, so the AI already has a sense of the context.
Keep this in the same chat as step 3 — the closing summary at the end depends on the AI remembering how your vocabulary quiz went. Same idea as step 3: you try first. For each sentence you'll be asked for your own attempt before the AI gives the real translation, a word-by-word (or chunk-by-chunk) breakdown, and the grammar behind it — plus a flag whenever something is a pattern you'll see again. At the end, it closes with a summary built from what you actually got wrong across steps 3 and 4, not a generic recap.
A short, one-shot close — no back-and-forth needed after four steps already, and no need to repaste the article since the AI already has it from earlier in this chat. It asks the AI to look past this one document to the real issue behind it, and what a police officer specifically should take from it — tied to your cadre if you entered one above.
You don't need a fresh article for these — a menu of prompts covering the other things AI is actually good for: writing, not just reading; talking, not just translating. Copy any of them in, and swap out anything in [brackets] before you send it.