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

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Post by joshvm »

This is awesome, though there's a bug somewhere that causes any character input into the field to submit. Perhaps triggered by going back and forth to the main menu.

Also it would be useful if you could have a 'hint' mode for the tense so you can remember which one it is. I can never remember the names of the tenses!

EDIT: Seems to be triggered reliably if I get something wrong. Then any character entered into the box will cause it to submit. Quitting and going back resets it.

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

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Post by andycloke »

dharmon wrote: post #29

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 t…

I actually came across your site a while back and really like it. That method of grouping verbs is very interesting. Thanks for sharing! I definitely need to think about how to group verbs, e.g. by most common and similar stems.

I wanted to avoid multiple choice as I think active recall of the answer is quite important, but I agree it's a trade off as input on mobile for my site feels pretty slow.

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

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Post by andycloke »

joshvm wrote: post #33

This is awesome, though there's a bug somewhere that causes any character input into the field to submit. Perhaps triggered by going back and forth to the main menu. Also it would be useful if you could have a 'hint' mode for the tense so you can remember which one it is. I can never remember the names of the tenses! EDIT: Seems to be triggered reliably if I get something wrong. Then any character entered into the bo…

Thanks! Great shout on the hint mode.

I don't quite understand the bug - could you post steps to recreate? For me submitting a wrong answer shows the conjugation table, then takes you to the next question :/

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

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Post by andycloke »

jfroma wrote: post #28
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.

Thanks - fixed!

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

#38

Post by joshvm »

andycloke wrote: post #36
joshvm wrote: post #33

This is awesome, though there's a bug somewhere that causes any character input into the field to submit. Perhaps triggered by going back and forth to the main menu. Also it would be useful if you could have a 'hint' mode for the tense so you can remember which one it is. I can never remember the names of the tenses! EDIT: Seems to be triggered reliably if I get something wrong. Then any character entered into the bo…

Thanks! Great shout on the hint mode. I don't quite understand the bug - could you post steps to recreate? For me submitting a wrong answer shows the conjugation table, then takes you to the next question :/

Perhaps it's a Firefox problem? I'll try it in Safari (EDIT - seems to only trigger in Firefox, so might be a plugin conflict or something weird - probably wouldn't worry too much).

1) Load site, play

2) Get verb wrong - shows the hint table

3) Get to next question, first character entered into the box submits the form (usually incorrectly, of course!)

4) Normal behaviour resumes if I hit quit and play again

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

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Post by andycloke »

joshvm wrote: post #38
andycloke wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Great shout on the hint mode. I don't quite understand the bug - could you post steps to recreate? For me submitting a wrong answer shows the conjugation table, then takes you to the next question :/

Perhaps it's a Firefox problem? I'll try it in Safari (EDIT - seems to only trigger in Firefox, so might be a plugin conflict or something weird - probably wouldn't worry too much). 1) Load site, play 2) Get verb wrong - shows the hint table 3) Get to next question, first character entered into the box submits the form (usually incorrectly, of course!) 4) Normal behaviour resumes if I hit quit and play again

Will take a look at this tomorrow - thanks

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

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Post by abarrettjo »

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.

I've been working on learning spanish for a while and this looks super helpful - thanks for creating and sharing it! It would also be sweet if you could add an example of the verb used in a sentence after you've submitted your answer/guess, and then maybe a button to see that example sentence translated back to english. That would be a lot, but just a thought.
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