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It's easier because your child is like an extension of yourself. I think changing your own kid's diaper is a walk in the park unless there's a big mess!

Hi, thanks for this! Not sure if you're aware that clicking Australia goes to American Samoa, similar issue with some others that I encountered (Bahamas -> Burkina faso).

The fact he got locked up?

Issen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387828

https://www.languagereactor.com is something similar to Yabla I think... But you can use it indefinitely and subscribe if you need the premium features.

I would argue that it's harder for me to decide how easily I recalled a word and decide between a few loosely defined levels as to which one I should choose than to apply a simple …

It's surprising how much easier to translate a foreign when it's given in a sentence. Also helps when there are multiple translations for a word depending on context.

This looks like a fun app!

One way it could grade you automatically is by the speed of flipping the card (or entering the correct answer). If it took less than a second to confirm then evidently it was easy.…

Amazing approach! Is learning a second language too different from the types of courses Miyagi was designed for, or do you see a potential for that category?

But learning how to ask the chemist for proctosydol in French may pay off dividends

I think OP was alluding to the fact that risks of complications with pregnancy increases with age.

Using speech to text you could say the answer and it could validate your answer. If AI engine is powerful enough it could have you say the foreign word and rate your pronunciation.…

You could use the data you've collected in the DB to generate a quiz that tests your knowledge of the words. If you track how many times you entered the correct answer and sort by …

That second sentence was absolutely not what the first sentence led me to believe what was coming!

Highways seem like they're safer than other roads but if we had fully autonomous highways I imagine speed limits could be effectively removed drastically reducing travel time.

I'm curious how people pronounce this when they've never heard it. Do people assume the 'e' is silent as in "eye". For anyone curious it's basically "Turkey-yeah" & the "yeah" is s…

One I've experienced on GitHub and Jira is dragging to select text on a dialog, if you release outside the dialog the mouse up event dismisses the pop up which is probably a side e…

Next day at work.. "hey Joe why are you squinting the whole time?" "Ah that... Well, thing is my glasses are so smudged, but I don't wanna forget how they got that way ;)" "Ah! Say…

Are there any apps specifically targetted at polyglots? It's a niche so I doubt it. I guess you can tell the app that you're native french speaker learning German if you are more p…

On the subject of tenses Turkish has a "reported past tense" which I haven't heard in other languages so far. It's very commonly used and simply denotes that someone told you of so…

The limitation with flashcards is that you get the entire answer, not sure if there are flashcard apps with a hint function? I experimented with vocab training where you can peek t…

If you require an English-speaking country with with a warm climate, and stable infrastructure, you have barely any other options. Bear in mind foreign languages are not a strongpo…

> Australia is only habitable at scale along the coast Actually with the 8th biggest coastline in the world, we could probably double the population without going very far in-land.…

> So at what point does anyone get to keep the money?! When it's inherited. No doubt inheriting a large sum helps people trade up to a better property, and park a new range rover o…