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Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#32No ToS, no privacy policy, no physical address, no authors' names... and it wants to roam with me inside my pocket?!?
And no list of supported languages.
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#33Phone only and also requires sign up before I can even see a list of languages that are available? I'd like to use it but I'm not gonna do it on my phone, and I'm not gonna sign up before if I know my target languages are available.
Also its not clear if this is just some in-line translation of articles and subtitles using google translate? Something else?
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#34Been looking for exactly this. Was actually going to write a script that grabbed paragraphs of random Spanish news and emailed them to me with the English translations beneath them every morning so I could get some practice every morning in my inbox.
Nice!
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#35Phone only and also requires sign up before I can even see a list of languages that are available? I'd like to use it but I'm not gonna do it on my phone, and I'm not gonna sign up before if I know my target languages are available. Also its not clear if this is just some in-line translation of articles and subtitles using google translate? Something else?
The full list is available from the Android play store page (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wowlabs.fl...):
> 22 languages supported, including: English, Spanish, Français (French), Deutsch (German), Русский (Russian), 简体中文 (Chinese Simplified), বাংলা (Bengali), Dansk (Danish), Nederlands (Dutch), Ελληνικά (Greek), हिन्दी (Hindi), Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Italiano (Italian), 日本語 (Japanese), 한국어 (Korean), Polski (Polish), Português (Portuguese), Svenska (Swedish), Tagalog (Filipino), ภาษาไทย (Thai), Türkçe (Turkish), and Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese).
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#36Nice!
I had a similar idea, learning a language with Twitter.
You'd select a profile and it would crawl all Tweets and create a learning plan from it.
The idea was to learn how people actually talk and not some random DuoLingo stuff.
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#37On an Android. I like the idea, and am currently studying Korean.
The app is unusably slow, and hangs often. If you want my phone environment, feel free to pm.
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#38Cool idea, I like the thought behind this app. Having tried a lot of other language apps, and not getting much use out of them but learning how to play a game (even after finishing), seems definitely more immersive imo. Just downloaded the Android version, will give it a whirl. If you have a support forum, would definitely give feedback and potential bugs.
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#39
The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for ReadLang for a while, but this lack of a feature has proven too frustrating.
I would have loved to have an app that runs the text through something like Google Natural Language API (https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/) and then use the results of _that_ for flashcards, noun-phrase translation, etc. Google Translate alone is just not sufficient.
Of course, I have 10 pages worth of ideas about language learning and none of that implemented. So, kudos for trying to make at least something happen. Let the thousand flowers bloom and all that.
Re: Show HN: Flowlingo – practice a foreign language with tech news
#40The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for ReadLang for a while, but this lack of a feature has proven too frustrating. I would have loved to have an app that runs the text through something like Google Natural Language API ( https://cloud.…
The thing that annoys me about all of these attempts is failing to recognize the impact of irregular forms of the verbs. So - for French - all the different forms of the verb aller (go) are treated individually. I paid for ReadLang for a while, but this lack of a feature has proven too frustrating.
I don't speak French so I'm having trouble understanding what you mean. Do you mind giving a bit more detail?
I'm also curious about the other ideas you mentioned.