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

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Post by andycloke » Fri, May 12, 2017, 9:35 PM UTC

jamessb wrote: post #18

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

Hi cheers for the feedback.

The thinking behind that was that when you on first start it says: '1 - conjugate this verb' '2 - for this person' etc. Which I think is the most logical order.

However I wanted to keep the verb close to the input box so that you can see it close by as you type your answer. That's why the numbers don't follow the order on the page.

I might do this differently in the future - I could maybe get rid of the numbers when you put your mouse over them, but keep them for the initial intro.

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

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Post by feiss » Fri, May 12, 2017, 9:48 PM UTC

very nice, congrats! :) I only miss to enter words by pressing Enter instead of clicking on the arrow button

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

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Post by kutkloon7 » Fri, May 12, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

Awesome! I have been trying duolingo, but it's kind of a drag and I feel like I never understand verbs well. This is a nice complement!

Also like the nice and clean look. I know I've seen it before somewhere. Where did you get the inspiration for it?

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

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Post by sutee » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:21 PM UTC

Great minds think alike! My friend and I built a similar web app for learning Spanish conjugations: http://practicarapp.herokuapp.com/. I found that it was a perfectly-sized project for learning React/Redux.

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

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Post by andycloke » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:27 PM UTC

feiss wrote: post #22

very nice, congrats! :) I only miss to enter words by pressing Enter instead of clicking on the arrow button

thanks a lot - I forgot to add that to the shortcuts table but have added it now

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

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Post by smcl » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:27 PM UTC

I did this when I was studying Czech - http://conjugate.io

I think I spent more time futzing around with the app instead of learning the language :-D

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

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Post by andycloke » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:28 PM UTC

kutkloon7 wrote: post #23

Awesome! I have been trying duolingo, but it's kind of a drag and I feel like I never understand verbs well. This is a nice complement! Also like the nice and clean look. I know I've seen it before somewhere. Where did you get the inspiration for it?

Cheers! The look is all Material Design using the React Toolbox library

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

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Post by jfroma » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:30 PM UTC

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.

Looks nice! One thing I saw "Él" is missing the tilde.

Él means he.

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

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Post by dharmon » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:33 PM UTC

Looks pretty nice.

I actually run a site that does something pretty similar [0]. The major difference is that I "group" verbs into sets with identical conjugations.

I then use spaced repetition to generate the "flashcards", but substitute grouped verbs at random. The idea is for you to get a feel for a conjugation so that when you see a new verb in the future you should have a good sense of how it conjugates. (as a trivial example, if you know how to conjugate tener, you should know how to conjugation detener).

I built it for myself years ago to quickly master all the verb conjugations for all tenses (it takes about 4-6 months), then cleaned it up for others.

I also give a multiple choice option, since on mobile its not always convenient to type.

[0]: https://maestrospanish.com/beta

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

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Post by andycloke » Fri, May 12, 2017, 10:33 PM UTC

sutee wrote: post #24

Great minds think alike! My friend and I built a similar web app for learning Spanish conjugations: http://practicarapp.herokuapp.com/ . I found that it was a perfectly-sized project for learning React/Redux.

Nice work! Yeah couldn't agree more. It really brought home how great Redux is even for smallish projects like these