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Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by edko »

Philomath wrote: post #9

Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be. The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error. 'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking fo…

I don't think there is anything special about the verb "sentir". "Sentirse" is just using it in a reflexive way, and the same holds for many other verbs: acostar, cepillar, duchar, levantar, etc.

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by solipsism »

edko wrote: post #11
Philomath wrote: post #9

Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be. The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error. 'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking fo…

I don't think there is anything special about the verb "sentir". "Sentirse" is just using it in a reflexive way, and the same holds for many other verbs: acostar, cepillar, duchar, levantar, etc.

Was going to say exactly this. Nothing out of the ordinary here. OP appears bilingual but must not spend much time translating between languages. You will face such problems (maybe they can be thought of as an example of an impedence mismatch [0]) whenever going between languages, especially when you're crossing language families.

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?ImpedanceMismatch

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by andycloke »

andygcook wrote: post #10
andycloke wrote: post #7

Creator here. I only started learning to code properly 7 months ago and react ~3 months ago, so I'd love any feedback. I hope to add audio, more tenses and more feedback (on your progress through each round) soon. I wrote a blog post on the development here for anyone interested: https://andycloke.github.io/Building-Verb-Master/ This was my CS50 final project. Can't recommend the course highly enough.

Very impressive for less than a year's worth of development experience. Appreciate the simple, clean design too. Congratulations on the launch! How did you load the verbs + conjugations into the system?

Thanks a lot man! Most of the design credit should go to React Toolbox: http://react-toolbox.com

The verb data is from: https://github.com/ghidinelli/fred-jehle-spanish-verbs. I wrote a node script to turn it into a more efficient format.

If you're interested I wrote a little post about making it here: https://andycloke.github.io/Building-Verb-Master/

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by mattbgates »

Philomath wrote: post #9

Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be. The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error. 'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking fo…

Saber vs. Conocer.

Always had fun with that one in Spanish class.

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by titanomachy »

mattbgates wrote: post #15
Philomath wrote: post #9

Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be. The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error. 'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking fo…

Saber vs. Conocer. Always had fun with that one in Spanish class.

I think Germanic languages might be the outlier here, every other language that I've encountered uses a distinct verb for "to know (a person)" vs "to know (a fact)". connaitre/savoir (French), gnorizo/xero (Greek), renshi/zhidao (Mandarin).

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by harperlee »

Philomath wrote: post #9

Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be. The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error. 'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking fo…

I will always remember the puzzlement of the whole class when my EGB grammar teacher wrote the following sentence in the board for syntactic analysis: Dímelo.

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by jamessb »

On a apge liek this [1], the tooltip when mousing pver 'present' is numbered '2.', and the tooltip when mousing over 'hervir - to boil' is '1.', which is the opposite of the order on the page.

[1]: https://andycloke.github.io/verb-master/#/?_k=efs1q4 Whe I mouse-over

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by kmicklas »

harperlee wrote: post #17
Philomath wrote: post #9

Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be. The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error. 'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking fo…

I will always remember the puzzlement of the whole class when my EGB grammar teacher wrote the following sentence in the board for syntactic analysis: Dímelo.

What's so puzzling about that?

Re: Show HN: Verb Master – A site for practising Spanish verbs

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Post by Vivtek »

titanomachy wrote: post #16
mattbgates wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saber vs. Conocer. Always had fun with that one in Spanish class.

I think Germanic languages might be the outlier here, every other language that I've encountered uses a distinct verb for "to know (a person)" vs "to know (a fact)". connaitre/savoir (French), gnorizo/xero (Greek), renshi/zhidao (Mandarin).

Or in fact, German kennen/wissen - it's not Germanic languages per se, but English, which developed from a simplified creole spoken by the Saxon conquerors of the Angles (they never bothered with all that conjugation stuff, and it stuck).
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