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Re: Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

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Post by baby »

1. I don't really understand what this is about. Having a description on the landing page would help.

> Barron's 800 Words list with example sentences

who is this Barron?

2. Please can you add pronunciation :D

3. words need a definition as well, not sure what some of these means even with the examples.

Re: Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

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Post by abhas9 »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #9

Very cool! Although I feel that sometimes you really need a human touch to make it truly comprehended. For instance, I random clicked on "antediluvian": https://buildmyvocab.in/antediluvian/ Everything here will get you a "good enough" understanding of what the word means, but this is the only one that really comes close to explaining the word's literal meaning, and it's too vague to be of much use: any of the early…

Thanks for your awesome feedback. And yes this is just the initial ground work and part of a larger experiment. We are also trying to teach English using Bollywood movies and GIFs[1]. I agree that human editing is very important and as such upvote/downvote button feature is in pipeline next.

[1] https://buildmyvocab.com/ddlj.html

Re: Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

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Post by sremani »

baby wrote: post #12

1. I don't really understand what this is about. Having a description on the landing page would help. > Barron's 800 Words list with example sentences who is this Barron? 2. Please can you add pronunciation :D 3. words need a definition as well, not sure what some of these means even with the examples.

> who is this Barron?

http://barronstestprep.com/

Re: Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

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Post by abhas9 »

baby wrote: post #12

1. I don't really understand what this is about. Having a description on the landing page would help. > Barron's 800 Words list with example sentences who is this Barron? 2. Please can you add pronunciation :D 3. words need a definition as well, not sure what some of these means even with the examples.

Thanks for the feedback. I understand that the current UX is very unintuitive as this was a one day hack which I published online. I will add a description and search feature soon.

Regarding Pronunciation and definitions: I am exploring the possibility of integrating "Wordnet" by Princeton University. I will try to integrate it as soon as possible.

Re: Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

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Post by dominotw »

baby wrote: post #12

1. I don't really understand what this is about. Having a description on the landing page would help. > Barron's 800 Words list with example sentences who is this Barron? 2. Please can you add pronunciation :D 3. words need a definition as well, not sure what some of these means even with the examples.

>who is this Barron?

I think if you are asking that question you are probably not the target audience for this website.

Re: Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-native English learners

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Post by baby »

dominotw wrote: post #19
baby wrote: post #12

1. I don't really understand what this is about. Having a description on the landing page would help. > Barron's 800 Words list with example sentences who is this Barron? 2. Please can you add pronunciation :D 3. words need a definition as well, not sure what some of these means even with the examples.

>who is this Barron? I think if you are asking that question you are probably not the target audience for this website.

that comment helped a lot
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