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An app where you can test your Japanese vocabulary, writing, pitch accent and more. You can also create an account to track your progress and to appear on the leader boards.

"The only areas where AI delivers the goods are spamming, scamming & shamming." I don't know why such hyperbolic statements are being made. I still find chatGPT useful for example …

That's understandable,these tools definitely can be helpful, but learners should know their limitations and problems. Also I just think speaking to the actual native speaker is sti…

I agree that chatting and speaking requires different skill set. However I would argue that it is even more of an argument to not use speech recognition here (or at least not to fo…

Generally if you are beginner and want to actually learn the language, you should focus on the input not the output. Few problems I find with these kind of apps: How is that differ…

I don't understand, how is that different from just using chatgpt? Generally I don't think it is good idea to use LLMs for learning languages, especially if it wasn't trained prima…

I watched the video, but I don't think this is practical. You can't realistically learn Japanese with gpt 3.5 as it makes ton of mistakes, gpt 4 is better, but still wouldn't use i…

It has nothing to do with Hwang. Hwang's paper was published in Science and he was called pride of Korea. In superconductor case we see infighting and even Koreans are very sceptic…

Pascal and Logo Turtle are programming languages I learned at school, but never used them outside of it. I hated them back then. I don't know if this was teacher or language fault,…

“If you watch all [the trailers], you know everything that’s going to happen in that movie. So how do moviegoers feel about that? There must be people, who, after watching all the …

I get his point, but it may be too late for it as some applications even have backends in js.. However I agree that it is somewhat problematic that instead of creating new language…

I've seen some move to tildes.

For me all the programs from adobe creative suite not working is the biggest reason why I'm hesitant to switch.