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Love the idea; can I kindly ask if you're expanding to include German?
Can you clarify what the “upload” ability does? Is it putting my epub on your server? Does it remain there?
"I believe apps like this, which use AI to enhance or scale functionality rather than simply acting as a wrapper over APIs, will be the major beneficiaries as LLMs improve."
I definitely don't want to learn another language by reading English. I've seen comments about people who learnt a language using Google translate from English, and they end up sounding like Google translate. I prefer to learn by reading in the target language and translating to English as I go along.
I definitely didn't see what I expected when opening a book for the first time -- I can already read or watch content in Italian. What I do today is pause (or stop reading) when I encounter a word I don't know.
What I expected when picking a level was definitely to see all Italian, though in retrospect I can imagine it's near impossible to do that without lots of paraphrasing.
But to me personally (much as I think this space needs more things, and that you OP are awesome for sharing it) that I'd not personally use something which wasn't entirely in my target language, as I find the way I've learned languages best so far to be similar to my current workflow, and over time I have to look up fewer and fewer words.
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.
Which languages do you support ?
Let me click anywhere to close the popup. Having to target a small button when reading means I have to stretch my thumb to reach it as it can be far from the word I clicked. Don’t make me have to think about the targeting. Eg when reading I never want to think about HOW to turn a page or where I need to swipe.
Make the scroll bar stay visible or at least make it big enough to easily grab!
Not sure why the reflow is causing a horizontal scroll.
Can you retain chapters from the original epub?
Text size options.
Hide the bottom logo and percentage when reading if I want.
Its possible to convert html to epub but it would be better if you handled web pages natively.
This is a really great language app!
I definitely don't want to learn another language by reading English. I've seen comments about people who learnt a language using Google translate from English, and they end up sounding like Google translate. I prefer to learn by reading in the target language and translating to English as I go along.
Yeah I was gonna provide essentially the same feedback (so I'll just tack on here). I definitely didn't see what I expected when opening a book for the first time -- I can already read or watch content in Italian. What I do today is pause (or stop reading) when I encounter a word I don't know. What I expected when picking a level was definitely to see all Italian, though in retrospect I can imagine it's near impossib…
The limitation now is getting consistently high accuracy for whole sentences - but something I'll keep working on as the underlying technologies improve.
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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.
Do you require the epub to be drm stripped first?
This is super cool, thank you for building it! Two small UX ideas: - a scrollbar and search for the Online Library would be helpful - switching difficulty levels in the middle of reading could be helpful. Or if you keep that on a separate page, returning automatically to the last open position. (I was floating between beginner levels to find the right amount of challenge)