This reminds me of Linugua Latina Per Se Illustrata (Latin language illustrated by itself), which is a latin self-learning book written fully in Latin. It's structured in such a way that you naturally learn new words and grammar as you progress just by reading it. I suggest everyone check it out even if you don't care about learning latin, simply because it's one of the most fun ways to learn a language I've seen
Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
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#132Why the developer doesn’t make this app available in all regions beats me. If you’re reading this, please do so so I can download it.
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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.
Yeah Pimsleur does tend to focus on travel scenarios.
Though I find it does a good job of actually getting phrases into your head and getting you thinking in the language.
Looking forward to trying out this approach.
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#134I 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
Nice idea - although I hate having to start from scratch and having to "train" the system to know my level and vocabulary. I think it's a bummer that it's not common to be be able to exchange vocabulary lists between apps.
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#135Love the idea; can I kindly ask if you're expanding to include German?
Hi, if it would be sufficient for you to read websites, I'm building https://vokabeln.io , though the concept is a bit different, focusing more on flashcards and spaced-repetition.
This looks great, I love the design! Especially your solution of "importing" known vocabulary by simply scrolling through word lists - very smart and intuitive!
Although it would be even better (for me) if one were able to import their Anki decks and have your app figure out the level of "competency" for each word. This is the biggest gripe I have with adopting a new language learning app: Having to re-learn vocabulary that I am already 100% confident in.
Also, I would love to be notified when the Spanish version comes around - is there any way for that?
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#136This reminds me of Linugua Latina Per Se Illustrata (Latin language illustrated by itself), which is a latin self-learning book written fully in Latin. It's structured in such a way that you naturally learn new words and grammar as you progress just by reading it. I suggest everyone check it out even if you don't care about learning latin, simply because it's one of the most fun ways to learn a language I've seen
Love this book.
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#137This would be super cool as a browser extention. Turn news articles or hacker news into a language learning tool.
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#138No Chinese.
We had this on HN: https://github.com/simjanos-dev/LinguaCafe
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#139Shout 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…
Just listened to the first couple tracks of the Complete Spanish course and it reminds me a lot of the Michel Thomas Method audio course [1], which I couldn't recommend highly enough.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This should work fantastic in theory, since differing vocabulary (not grammar) is the main factor that determines the difficulty of a new language. Putting off this primary obstacle so one can ease into it sounds genius to me. It also agrees with the method hyped by Steve Kaufman, where one should read and speak level-appropriate material.