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

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Post by petemir »

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…

> I don't think I'm alone in never wanting to read an actual book with my phone

Although a koreader integration would be great, there are tablets with both Android and iOS, as well as eReaders with the former.

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

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Post by throwaway81523 »

jonathanb88 wrote: post #4
troydavis wrote: post #3

I'd use this if it had a book I wanted to read. A while back, I tried Prismatext ( https://prismatext.com/ ). It only offered old classics that had come out of copyright (ie, Project Gutenberg) and a handful of poorly-reviewed modern novels. If you can license a modern book that someone would actually choose to read on their own, I'd pay for it. Bonus if I can sort/browse the available books by Goodreads (or similar)…

Thanks for the feedback. One of the features allows users to upload an epub to use in the app. Although I realise that a better method is needed, as it has become harder to find legitimate places to buy epub formatted books.

I've bought a few epubs (English only) from https://www.humblebundle.com/books and https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/books . I'm still skeptical of this proposition though: to learn a language by listening to a TTS? Better to go talk to people. The language starts to solidify after the sounds and non-verbal cues start matching up.

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

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

gleenn wrote: post #7

This such an awesome and unique new way to learn a language. I use both Pimsleurs and DuoLingo but it's always kind of a chore. Will definitely give this a shot. Really refreshing take on learning too, everyone basically has variants of flash cards which gets tedious. And it's free! Thank you!

It's definitely a cool project, but this same concept has been around quite a while. Many chrome extensions do this.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readlang-web-reade...

If OPs project is using LLMs, it could definitely be much higher quality when it's swapping out more than a few words.

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Post by dmattia »

foundry27 wrote: post #12

This looks really cool. I’d have loved to give it a try as someone interested in improving my French, but I wasn’t able to download the app since it’s pinned to the latest version of iOS only. Are you using APIs that are unavailable on iOS 16 and under, or is it a matter of testing? My understanding was that about 25% of iPhone users aren’t on iOS 17 (myself included!) so it’s a fairly large demographic

+1, my device is unfortunately too old to upgrade to iOS 17 and I wouldn't imagine this app would use too many new features

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

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Post by jonathanb88 »

foundry27 wrote: post #12

This looks really cool. I’d have loved to give it a try as someone interested in improving my French, but I wasn’t able to download the app since it’s pinned to the latest version of iOS only. Are you using APIs that are unavailable on iOS 16 and under, or is it a matter of testing? My understanding was that about 25% of iPhone users aren’t on iOS 17 (myself included!) so it’s a fairly large demographic

I think it is SwiftData that meant I had to limit to iOS 17. I will double check because it might be a limitation I can solve easily enough.

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

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Post by darthrupert »

Thank you for the effort.

I tried the practice a bit, and the explanations (generated by ai I guess?) were very nice. I met a bit of an unfair situation in one question. The sentence started with "They" and the options were Ils and Elles. However, the sentence in English didn't hint towards a gender, and I failed the 1d2 and got what felt like a sarcastic explanation.

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