This looks really cool! Too bad you don’t have Korean though. But I’m already a LingQ user, how is Glossarie different?
Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
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#122This looks nice and similar to toucan [1]. I have built something similar but a bit different for the web [2]. Happy, to share the code in a non-so-permissive license with you if you plan to build out web support. [1] https://jointoucan.com/ [2] https://github.com/igeligel/tooltipr-extension
Curious to hear the reasoning behind using the US flag for English, given there's a country called England.
As far as I know English is different from English in many ways.
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I don't know. Search online.
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#123I could say that its interesting, but its instead region restricted (for android at least) and now available in Europe.
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#124I 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…
Thanks for the feedback.
This is something that will improve over time - as it gets better at identifying longer phrases I can implement rules so it won't omit a neighbouring noun if the phrase contains a verb.
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#125Not interested if it uses AI.
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#126Nice! I made a very similar app, but with podcasts and Youtube channels instead of books. https://www.langturbo.com
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#127This looks nice and similar to toucan [1]. I have built something similar but a bit different for the web [2]. Happy, to share the code in a non-so-permissive license with you if you plan to build out web support. [1] https://jointoucan.com/ [2] https://github.com/igeligel/tooltipr-extension
Curious to hear the reasoning behind using the US flag for English, given there's a country called England.
If it's written in American English, wouldn't you rather know that from the start? I'd be more annoyed to have all the U's removed after my O's and still see a UK flag.
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#128Shout 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…
Looks interesting and I'm going to try it out. Curious about what differentiates it from something like pimsleur courses, other than price of course.
He starts out with shared vocabulary between English and the target language whereas I think Pimsleur focuses more on useful phrases for e.g. travel.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://jointoucan.com/ - hope you enjoy it
Just tried Toucan and it can't be disabled on localhost, a major pain for using it during work as an engineer. For those that haven't used toucan, it's an extension that translates words/phrases inline on a page with various levels of replacement frequency and complexity based on your proficiency with the language.
This [1] help article says that it's free. Not sure how much we should trust that though. Did you find a better source?
[1] https://support.babbel.com/hc/en-gb/articles/13752043233170-...
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#130I'd love to try this out, but I'm unsure how it would work with a language that has such different grammar from English. Would it just be vocabulary then? Or would it just be entire sentences in the language to accommodate for the grammar, and then would it switch to English?
Tagalog (a language from the Philippines) has many sentences that are the opposite order than in English.
For example, in English you'd say "The house is beautiful", but in Tagalog you'd say "Maganda ang bahay" which translates to "Beautiful the house" [0]. There's another free grammar book for Tagalog as well [1].
[0]: https://unilang.org/course.php?res=79#ci--l2 [1]: https://learningtagalog.com/grammar/