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DESCRIPTION:People who try to learn English as a second language usually qu
 it their flashcard app within two weeks. The hard part isn't memorising de
 finitions. It's that a new word only sticks after a dozen real-world encou
 nters\, and a flashcard never gives you that. We introduce the concept "Am
 bient Learning" — learning from natural conversation.\n\nCOCA MCP is an 
 useful tool to suggest the vocabularies chat to an LLM. The server sits be
 hind the Corpus of Contemporary American English — 60\,000 words ranked 
 by frequency — and exposes a small set of MCP tools. When a client like 
 Claude is talking to a learner\, it asks the server which words are due\, 
 and gets back a short list scheduled by FSRS-4.5. The model uses those wor
 ds in its reply. It then tells the server which ones it actually used\; th
 e server records the exposure and reschedules.\n\nThe session walks throug
 h a modern English learning methodology on the running site at coca.gaving
 uo.cc — how to use MCP technology to improve the English ability.
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SUMMARY:COCA MCP: Learning English While Chatting with an LLM - Gavin Guo
URL:https://pretalx.coscup.org/coscup-2026/talk/ZESBXN/
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