Hello curious minds who haven’t given up yet,

A CotranslatorAI user emailed me recently, stuck. They were watching one of my training videos, trying to make sense of prompts and tabs, and… well… froze.

They told me:

“I find myself using CotranslatorAI like Google because of my difficulty in handling prompts and tabs.”

Maybe that sounds familiar.

Here’s what I said to them.

You don’t need to master the whole interface before you can use CotranslatorAI. That’s not how you learned your first CAT tool, and it’s not how you’ll learn this either.

So today, let me give you a small exercise that helps unlock the basics of prompting… without the pressure.

Open your CotranslatorAI Prompt Library and head into the Templates folder. Inside the “Sample Prompts (2023)” subfolder, pick one that looks interesting. Load it into CotranslatorAI.

Before you run it, just look at it. Try to guess what it’s supposed to do.

Then drop some sample text into the Segment field and run the prompt. See what happens.

Next, use the Copy button to copy the prompt to your My Prompts folder.

Then change something in the prompt instructions — even just a word or two — and run it again.

That’s it.

You don’t need to get it “right.” You’re not being graded. The goal is to get comfortable experimenting. Learn by doing, then tweak and try again. This is how I got good with prompting… and I helped build the tool.

If that still feels too loose or you’d rather be guided step by step, we’ve got something that can help.

It’s called the CotranslatorAI Beginner’s Guide Email Course. One email a day, for a week. Totally free. And packed with easy instructions.

You’ll get hands-on with the tool right away, and each lesson builds on the last. Even if you’ve signed up before, you can take it again. In fact, it might land better this time because now you’ve seen where you’re getting stuck.

Here’s the link to sign up or restart the course:

https://cf.cotranslatorai.com/cotranslator-ai-beginner-s-guide-sign-up

Stick with it. This learning curve isn’t as steep as it looks… once you start climbing it the right way.

Until next time,
Steven