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It's the 3rd most populous country in the world, and it's filled with English speakers?
If those are the metrics we should be using the Indian flag.
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#92I 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
Just tried Toucan and it can't be disabled on localhost, a major pain for using it during work as an engineer. For those that haven't used toucan, it's an extension that translates words/phrases inline on a page with various levels of replacement frequency and complexity based on your proficiency with the language.
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#93Many thanks for all of the positive feedback today, lots of good ideas for me to get working on; what a great community!
Side-note: A few eBooks are causing errors on the backend that don't appear to be DRM-related. I will prioritise getting this fixed.
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#94This looks nice and similar to toucan [1]. I have built something similar but a bit different for the web [2]. Happy, to share the code in a non-so-permissive license with you if you plan to build out web support. [1] https://jointoucan.com/ [2] https://github.com/igeligel/tooltipr-extension
Curious to hear the reasoning behind using the US flag for English, given there's a country called England.
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#95Sounds great. Any plans for a visionOS app? I think this would be the perfect use case for it.
Something I'd love to look at longer-term. I think an overlay onto the real world that slowly immersed you in a new language would be a really powerful way to learn.
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#96Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
#97I 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.
That would be amazing, not everyone reads eBooks (whether because they don't read books, or just prefer physical) but everyone whose a potential user anyway does browse websites. Also because while I absolutely love the idea for seamless Hinglish style integration (as opposed to say a side bar which just told you what some words would be in a different language) it does mean that I'm no longer really reading the book…
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#98Thanks 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…
Not quite the same thing, but Vocabsieve (disclosure:my project) can read your KOReader lookup history to generate Anki cards with context and audio. I also feel like reading in your target language is a far better use of your time. Vocabulary is not the only thing you need to learn, you also need to internalize collocations and grammatical structures, which is best done through actual reading.
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#99I have to admit I don't quite understand this.
Does it just replace words on a word-by-word basis? But the ordering of words in English is different from the ordering of words in other languages. How is this not going to teach you terrible grammar?
Looking at one of the screenshots, for instance, it translated "they had met their dead father" as "they had recontré leur mort father." But in French "mort" would come after "père."
Re: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
#100I 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.
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