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englishcat

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About englishcat

Building Lingoku.AI - Learn Languages Naturally While Browsing

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    Comment #46706932

    We also support real-time word injection of video subtitles for platforms such as YouTube, Netflix, and Bilibili.

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    Show HN: Lingoku – Learn Japanese with DeepSeek/Ollama (Updated)

    Hi HN, A few weeks ago, I shared the first version of Lingoku here [1]. The community gave me some critical feedback: you wanted more privacy, local model support. I listened. Toda…

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    Comment #46499783

    Same here.

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    Comment #46498779

    Great project, thanks What's your next steps, do you plan to add more details of the reflow process?

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    Ask HN: Does Product Hunt Helpful?

    I've had a question for days: is Product Hunt really useful for promoting your product and finding your target audience? Serval days ago, before the new year, I launched my SaaS on…

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    Comment #46375647

    Feel free to reach out — you can contact us via the email or Discord on our website.

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    Comment #46341580

    Really interesting, does it totally based on gemini? seems the data is not accurate of my account.

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    Comment #46341492

    That makes a lot of sense, it really highlights the diffences in learning stages. My current tool if primarily designed for intermediate language learners who have already learned …

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    Comment #46325846

    This is quite a great idea, as a native Chinese speaker, i want to say this is the way very similar how we learned Chinese when we were kids. On the other hand, the Chinese writing…

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    Comment #46314787

    Hope our product helps your learning journey, enjoy! Any feedback is welcome.

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    Comment #46311698

    Fair point, the UI was partly AI-assisted, and the design is not our strongest area at the moment but something we are actively improving. Appreciate the feedback.

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    Comment #46308292

    Thanks for your kind words, yes, but you can try the free version first, and if it's not enough, you can check the pricing plans if you like.

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    Comment #46306988

    Thanks for pointing this out. You're absolutely right that 'Zero Privacy Trace' was a bit too absolute. I’ve just updated the website to be more precise: we use enterprise-grade AP…

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    Comment #46299698

    I can totally understand your concerns. At the moment, Lingoku browser extension does send text to LLms for processing, we don't sell user data, but i agree that simply saying 'tru…

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    Comment #46299517

    Thanks, We now support cross-language learning between for languages (English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese), hope could help you.

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    Comment #46299500

    Thanks for you feedback, agreed. The current version of word definition is somewhat rudimentary. right now we supported four languages(English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean), but we d…

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    Comment #46299403

    Same here, i also want to have a try. BTW, i like the blog

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    Comment #46299365

    I don't know a tool like this. But this feature seems to be a fairly common requirement; we can consider add a switcher to implementing it.

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    Comment #46299296

    You're absolutely right, we typically spend more time our our phones for most people. we're also preparing to port this feature to mobile, possibly based on the mobile version of F…

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    Comment #46299190

    Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it. I tried the above words in Chrome, and got the same problem. sorry about that, our tool is far from perfect. this is a bug in the extension…

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    Comment #46298490

    I have a deep understanding of this point, a lack of vocabulary makes reading Japanese materials very difficult. For this scenario, we will translate the Japanese text completely i…

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    Comment #46298403

    we've considered using local llm, but the problem is that for a better user experience, we will add user's new vocabulary list, then inject words based on the list, it's hard to do…

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    Comment #46298256

    Thanks for the feedback, actually we use furigana to show the pronunciation, we use LLM to produce the word explanation, this may be due to LLM instability, could you help tell me …

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    Comment #46297792

    Thanks for feedback, in some cases, we use a NLP lib to detect to language of the word since we support multiple languages, this may be due to language detection failed on some wor…