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SEEKING FREELANCER | US | remote only Senior Full Stack Engineer, web and mobile Clozemaster is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build, maintain, and improve our we…

Hello HN! My name's Mike. I built The Great Translation Game to help me improve my Spanish writing skills. I figured the best way to improve my writing (and vocab and grammar) was …

Clozemaster might be a useful complement to the Duolingo course - lots of content for Esperanto as well as a bunch of other languages. https://www.clozemaster.com

Awesome - glad to hear!

Clozemaster already offers this for over 100 language pairings via the Fluency Fast Track feature, https://www.clozemaster.com . Clozemaster's a game to learn and practice a langua…

Thanks for letting me know! I'll check it out. Japanese has been a tough one with no word boundaries.

Thanks! - bad sentences/mistakes - users can report sentences with errors. I'm notified and those sentences are then removed from their queue. Pro users can also ignore sentences, …

This issue is most likely the result of the hiragana being automatically generated and some kanji having different pronunciations based on context. I tend to trust the voices, and …

Thanks for the feedback! 1) Cantonese flag is on my to-do list. 2) Agreed, I just need to come up with a good/automatic way of doing so without including the cloze word.

Good point! Thanks for the feedback. I'd also like to eventually add daily goals, and perhaps have streaks for those as well.

Thanks for the feedback! always_good's response is really on point. Clozemaster isn't intended to be better than Duolingo, rather it's meant to be a complement and another tool to …

Nice!

Glad to hear! Yep I'm definitely considering a one-time lifetime payment for Pro, just trying to decide how best to price it - looking to make it available within the next few mont…

Hm is there no progress showing up on your Dashboard?

Hm sorry about that - what mode are you playing? Have you tried playing the Fast Track?

Most of the lists come from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists with some additional processing to try to remove names, places, etc. I still need to make the …

I'm using lists with declined nouns and conjugated verbs, so you should see the more common declensions/conjugations earlier.

Yep that's a known issue - I'd like to eventually implement voice gender to match missing word gender, but it's still a bit down the road.

Thanks for the feedback! Adding some kind of testing / assessment of a user's level in a given language is on my to-do list. That said, users can also self-assess and choose the co…

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed on both points. I'm aiming to revamp the landing page within the next few months, definitely needs some work.

Yep! There are by-default reviews included with each round. Pro users can change the number of reviews per round as well as manually set sentences to 'Mastered', or ignore them so …

There could certainly be multiple answers that make sense like you mentioned, though at the moment only one answer is accepted by default. There is however the option to add your o…

Hi Hacker News! My name's Mike. I'm the creator of Clozemaster. Clozemaster is language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. The goal is to fill in the missing …