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Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Muromec wrote: post #3

Is this opensource and compatible with existing anki decks?

> Is this opensource My first gen is open source https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt... if you'd like to repurpose it

This one has a fair amount of security and wrappers around the latest update I plan to repurpose for profit so unfortunately this project is not. Though I'm happy to share how its built if you have questions.

> compatible with existing anki decks?

No its not currently. How would you like it to work with Anki?

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

rciorba wrote: post #26

Just tried it for German. The cards gave me the word without their article. Because grammatical gender is so important and impacts so many aspects (adjectives, case markers, etc), you really should learn the word with the article, otherwise you'll be in a world of pain later.

Yep I noticed that myself. I need to refine the translations better. If you have examples you would prefer to see for German I can back test against them.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

hellotomas wrote: post #34

Take a look into "What Our Learners Say" section as I can't see reviews on chrome (some kind of color issue). Otherwise app looks cool, gonna try this weekend!

Thanks will do. Please let me know your thoughts after you give it a spin.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

dsiegel2275 wrote: post #11

I spent 10 minutes or so playing around with this and it is impressive. I've also built a couple of small side projects around language learning out of frustration with Duolingo. I'm around a C1 level in French and am just starting to learn Polish. The audio pronunciations are a great feature here and (at least in French, where I can judge it) the accents are quite good. I can see this being quite useful for my Polis…

Thanks for the feedback. I started with web text-to-speech APIs and beta testers hated the robotic sounds so spent a fair amount of time getting text-to-speech right.

Looking forward to seeing more advanced ML models in the browser as that's how this project started really.

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

dsiegel2275 wrote: post #12
dsiegel2275 wrote: post #11

I spent 10 minutes or so playing around with this and it is impressive. I've also built a couple of small side projects around language learning out of frustration with Duolingo. I'm around a C1 level in French and am just starting to learn Polish. The audio pronunciations are a great feature here and (at least in French, where I can judge it) the accents are quite good. I can see this being quite useful for my Polis…

Using it a bit more, it doesn't seem that the C1 or C2 level generated sentences are anywhere close to being C1 or C2 level. I'd be curious to understand the sentence generation process and how it is or is not attempting to generate sentences at various CEFR levels.

Agreed I have heard that feedback a few times now. I tried to make sure the A and B levels were pinned down as it was quite verbose in my testing. I'll have a look into C1 and C2 levels. If you have examples I can back test against I'll use them.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

jbaudanza wrote: post #13

I really like this concept, and am working on a similar product for my own self-study. I would like to see more language support. For me, I'd like to study Korean The UX around card navigation needs some work. It took me a long time to figure out that after I chose a smiley face, that I was moving to a new card. This was especially true if the next card is similar to a previous card.

I can add Korean tonight. I'll ping you once its shipped.

What would you prefer over smiley faces? Something like "bad" "okay" "good"?

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

lthornberry wrote: post #17

How are you generating the decks? There are some incorrect translations, at least for for the version of Spanish I learned. Maybe there’s a dialect that says “ser usado” instead of “acostumbrarse” for “be used to”?

I've noticed this myself with Spanish, Italian and French. Such as the word for "bill" in the word card vs the example cards.

Its something I plan to refine in my next release.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

kazinator wrote: post #7

Anki can be used to memorize anything. It is not specifically for learning languages.

Agreed. Anki is awesome! I just was spending too much time creating Anki cards and created this for my self. Some friends saw how I was using the first gen (https://github.com/Amber-Williams/language-flashcard-app-gpt...) and wanted it as well. So I made it into an app and researched a far around learning that I hope to pin down an app others can use too.

here's a great article on the power of spaced repetition any anki lover will enjoy - https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition

Re: Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

Hackbraten wrote: post #25

Congrats on the launch! Minor nitpicks: Dark grey text on black background (navigational menu items, testimonials) is not readable. Section 5 of your Terms and Conditions are, in part, utter nonsense. It says there that as a user of the service, I have to display cookie banners (how? where?) and other duties that make no sense whatsoever. Are you sure that this is what you wanted to say?

Great feedback thanks. Will have a look into these.
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