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mreichhoff

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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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    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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    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…