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I just moved to Spain, and just played around with the beginners Spanish course. This is badass. Thank you for making this.
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Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…
How's Datomic? Are you using the community edition?
Also about databases, are you using or have you considered using a graph for Cassandra like Titan?
I guess also, if you do a mobile app will you use ClojureScript with React Native, like Re-natal?
Thanks.
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Hopefully my use case is useful to you. I'm a heavy user of Duolingo. Been trying to teach myself Russian for the past 2-3 years. Almost use it on daily bases (I have missed a few days here and there by accident or when I had no connection). Usually my repeat usage is anywhere from 20 days to now 143 consecutive days. My biggest frustration with Duolingo (Russian language) is that none of the grammar rules are explai…
Are you using Duolingo on iOS, Android, or a computer? My wife has used all three, and says that grammar explanations are not on iOS and is on the other 2 platforms. She also believes that the explanations make us feel good, but don't actually help. (Then again she's using it to learn Polish and already knows Russian. So the grammar rules are pretty close to what she already knows.) Plus there are some natural langua…
But I can see it in a case where if you come from a language that has some grammatical overlap with Russian. It may not be as helpful, because she already has a mental language mapping for it. For English speakers or languages that some of these concepts are not native, it's quiet hard.
I do agree many native speakers do not know the rules. But they'e not the ones who would be creating the additional teaching modules. I'm sure there are plenty of Russian teachers who would love to make side money teaching Russian to non-native speakers and create explanation material.
With a product like Anki out there I see no reason for this to exist. Does this product have any advantage over Anki that I'm missing? The only one I can see is a central database, something which Memrise has and which is quite mature on that platform. A central database is also a disadvantage as far as I'm concerned as it means that copyrighted material is made significantly harder to study. When you add to these th…
With a product like Anki out there I see no reason for this to exist. Does this product have any advantage over Anki that I'm missing? The only one I can see is a central database, something which Memrise has and which is quite mature on that platform. A central database is also a disadvantage as far as I'm concerned as it means that copyrighted material is made significantly harder to study. When you add to these th…
I have the same questions. I have used Anki to learn several languages, more than one of which is at B2. I like entering my own cards. I like that Anki is 100% open source. Without a compelling reason, I wouldn't switch.
How would you advise a motivated, but time-limited person who wanted to learn a language to B2?
With a product like Anki out there I see no reason for this to exist. Does this product have any advantage over Anki that I'm missing? The only one I can see is a central database, something which Memrise has and which is quite mature on that platform. A central database is also a disadvantage as far as I'm concerned as it means that copyrighted material is made significantly harder to study. When you add to these th…
Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…
Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…
One of my pet peeves about new projects is when there is a complete lack of information on eventual pricing.
Even if you don’t yet know the pricing you will end up with, are you always going to have a free core set of features?
Are we going to lock in to your system only to face big charges when you leave beta, etc.?
But there is a feature I want badly: a KDE5 plasmoid widget to show the cards on my desktop, switching them every now and then so they will catch my attention and get memorized as I use my PC (I use it about 10 hours a day and I believe many other hackers do the same) without me having to dedicate time for this. I also believe other people might also appreciate similar desktop widgets for Windows, Android and other platforms.
Founder here. Note: This is spaced repetition. I bootstrapped this over the past 1 1/2 years. A few key differences: - A central DB (it has over 1.8M flash cards) which anybody can edit. Card owner can accept/reject the change request. - Courses are just references to flash cards, nothing else. - You decide what you want to learn "Display me field X,Y,Z and prompt me to enter field 'A'. You can choose any field/audio…
Looks great and helpful. Spaced repetition is such a powerful concept. That said... One of my pet peeves about new projects is when there is a complete lack of information on eventual pricing. Even if you don’t yet know the pricing you will end up with, are you always going to have a free core set of features? Are we going to lock in to your system only to face big charges when you leave beta, etc.?