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Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by totetsu »

SamBam wrote: post #99

I have to admit I don't quite understand this. Does it just replace words on a word-by-word basis? But the ordering of words in English is different from the ordering of words in other languages. How is this not going to teach you terrible grammar? Looking at one of the screenshots, for instance, it translated "they had met their dead father" as "they had recontré leur mort father." But in French "mort" would come af…

And those differences that are not marked in English but are in French are the only hard part about learning it..

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by juancn »

How would you deal with things like Japanese and English, where the source and target languages are awfully apart?

French, Italian and Spanish all share the same root and English borrows a lot of words from the three of them (plus the alphabet and the indo-european origin).

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by Onawa »

ximeng wrote: post #65

Shout out for an app called Language Transfer that I just came across via Reddit ( https://www.languagetransfer.org/ ). It teaches languages speaking first through a simple audio course. Developed by one guy, completely free and without ads. From what I’ve seen so far has a very clear focus on quickly getting up to speed with a different angle than other courses. It talks about how to build vocabulary by looking at g…

That dude needs more money to support development, because his method is amazing. The other amazing method I love and used to learn Spanish was "Fluent Forever". Stick to the book there though, the author tried to grow his empire too big and the apps aren't that great in my opinion.

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by BlueFalconHD »

Jeaye wrote: post #16

Thanks for building and sharing this! As a feature request, which would likely be the decider for me using this, would you please consider an integration into koreader? As far as I know, koreader is the #1 open source app for ereaders. If anyone using their ereader can use this, you can expand your userbase outside of those who just read on mobile. I don't think I'm alone in never wanting to read an actual book with…

Never used koreader, does it have plugin support? If so something like this wouldn't be too complex to integrate.

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by Jeaye »

BlueFalconHD wrote: post #104
Jeaye wrote: post #16

Thanks for building and sharing this! As a feature request, which would likely be the decider for me using this, would you please consider an integration into koreader? As far as I know, koreader is the #1 open source app for ereaders. If anyone using their ereader can use this, you can expand your userbase outside of those who just read on mobile. I don't think I'm alone in never wanting to read an actual book with…

Never used koreader, does it have plugin support? If so something like this wouldn't be too complex to integrate.

It does have plugin support: https://koreader.rocks/user_guide/#plugins

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by bzmrgonz »

aae42 wrote: post #85
archsurface wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious to hear the reasoning behind using the US flag for English, given there's a country called England.

It's the 3rd most populous country in the world, and it's filled with English speakers?

It's just marketing guys, think of it as political pandering, more population, more patriotic population(emotional attachment), etc. I'm sure we all agree that America is more linguistically and geographically "challenged"(market potential) than the Brits yeah?.... sooo market where the market is. As for Brazil, that's a sheer population decision. They tried to shove Spain's version of spanish audio translation into the latin american portion of the new world (the thinking I guess was since america loves the british accent in movies... but it flopped.... now Hollywood/movie industry recruits voices from Mexico and other latam countries.

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by rgovostes »

Onawa wrote: post #103
ximeng wrote: post #65

Shout out for an app called Language Transfer that I just came across via Reddit ( https://www.languagetransfer.org/ ). It teaches languages speaking first through a simple audio course. Developed by one guy, completely free and without ads. From what I’ve seen so far has a very clear focus on quickly getting up to speed with a different angle than other courses. It talks about how to build vocabulary by looking at g…

That dude needs more money to support development, because his method is amazing. The other amazing method I love and used to learn Spanish was "Fluent Forever". Stick to the book there though, the author tried to grow his empire too big and the apps aren't that great in my opinion.

I used the Fluent Forever app to acquire about 1,000 Italian words in one year. Agree that it wouldn't win awards for polish (maybe Polish), but it fairly faithfully implements the method described in the book, which is roughly: make your own flash cards, using memorable imagery, from curated word lists designed for forming a wide range of sentences, and then study these using spaced repetition. You also get the ear training audio cues.

You can do it all yourself with Anki, indeed the author of the method started that way, but I am happy to not have had to pay the Anki usability tax.

Even if you don't use the app/method, the book (of the same title) is a quick and useful read about tricks used to optimize language acquisition.

Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

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Post by allarm »

igeligel_dev wrote: post #70
yaj54 wrote: post #32

I hate browser plugins - but this needs to be a browser plugin. Then I would use it while reading HN. ;-) I would suggest tackling dynamic difficulty and algorithmic selection of what words to learn, when, and how often, and then let improving LLMs handle accuracy improvements.

https://jointoucan.com/ - hope you enjoy it

I wasted 10 minutes trying to find the pricing page. There’s no way I’m going to use an app that deliberately hides the pricing information.
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