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Show HN: Curious about tones in Chinese? An extension for language learners
I made a simple Chrome extension that: * color codes Chinese text based on the tone of each syllable * provides a popup dictionary * gives example sentences, useful links, and AI a…
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Show HN: TrieLingual: Study languages with prefix tries (and puns)
I made a little language learning tool. It represents languages as a trie data structure, so that learners can quickly pick up phrases and usage patterns when they learn a new word…
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Comment #43552512
cool! how did you determine the CEFR levels of the stories? Minor, but I also see a few placeholders like "Why {{appName}}?"
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Comment #43462467
how are users' voice recordings handled? Any guarantees about storage duration, privacy, etc.?
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Comment #43448873
looks cool! Any thoughts on Anki interoperability (e.g., get a shared deck from ankiweb and convert to GoCard's format)?
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Comment #43417767
cool! what modifications did you make to the default FSRS algorithm?
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Comment #43310898
Chinese would be my pick
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Show HN: Math expressions and graph traversals of the Chinese language
I've been working on a free Chinese language learning tool for awhile now. The main insight is that Chinese characters are used together to form words, and that this allows for a w…
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Comment #43302469
This looks cool. Are languages besides the 3 listed supported?
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Comment #41209927
Neat idea! Does it use spaced repetition, or some other way of deciding what words to show, when?
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Comment #41018131
looks neat! Is the quiz itself what helps with retention, or is this combined with spaced repetition or some other memory technique?
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Comment #39887814
is the XP earned constant for each item checked off, or does it vary (e.g., by difficulty or priority)?
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Comment #39505195
what makes it better than Anki? The community, email reminders, etc., or something core to the spaced repetition?
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Comment #39429755
ah, the "words containing" concept was pretty much how I ended up deciding to make this. Thanks for the note and best of luck with your studying! Feel free to ping with any bugs, e…
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Comment #39429730
yep, I know that, and originally had an entirely separate repo on GitHub for the Japanese version, but I tried to consolidate to just one for simplicity. I also use a different dom…
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Show HN: Learning Chinese and Japanese with graphs and trees
Just for fun, I built a language learning tool. It represents Chinese and Japanese as graphs of characters, with connections indicating given characters can form a word. It can als…