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ianjakobs
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About ianjakobs
Blog: ianjakobs.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ianjakobs
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Comment #28922918
I can't say I'm familiar with him, but I just had a cursory look and his approach looks interesting (and indeed similar in some regards)! Thanks for the recommendation.
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Comment #28916795
Thanks, feel free to let me know what you think!
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Comment #28916661
The service I use for automatic corrections is LanguageTool ( https://languagetool.org/ ), and they support Chinese. It's hard for me to judge the accuracy, but I know that for Spa…
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Comment #28916650
It's translations, text-to-speech, and corrections. I'm pretty sure the services I currently use support all this, but there's some things built around that such as word counts for…
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Comment #28916583
Also not yet, unfortunately. I wanted to hold off on that until hearing some more thoughts from users. If you're interested in following along, I try to be open about working on Fe…
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Comment #28916300
I have no details to share at the moment, but the idea I have now is to at least always keep a free plan available. One option I'm considering is for a potential paid plan to then …
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Comment #28916237
I understand, and that's a fair point. For cards I went with JSON so that I'm able to add structure to translations, e.g. to show alternative translations and example sentences and…
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Comment #28916167
Definitely! The main reason I haven't yet added support for any of those languages is just that I'm unfamiliar with them, to be honest, as I'd want to make sure they're _fully_ sup…
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Comment #28915847
Absolutely agree. At the end of the day there's only so much those services can pick up, so at some point you're bound to run into limitations there. To address this with Felingua …
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Comment #28907223
Creator here. As I’m currently learning Spanish, I started reading the Harry Potter books out loud to my partner (a native speaker) a while ago to get exposed to new vocabulary and…
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Comment #28886614
13" for me. It's the sweet spot between it being portable enough to travel with or use while sitting on the couch but still having enough to comfortably work with. And then I have …
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Comment #28876296
Great reads, thanks for posting. I've very recently been inspired to start being more open about my projects, so it's good to have a few more real-life examples of others doing it.…