Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by davidzweig » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 3:46 AM UTC

Language Learning with Netflix extension
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Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by njacobs5074 » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 4:52 AM UTC

I agree with the author's assessment that having the kanji, the furigana, and the English is really helpful for learning.

But I couldn't help but notice that the the software didn't romanize 困った correctly. It was "koma ta" when it really should have been "komatta".

And I wish I didn't have to use Chrome :|

Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by roca » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

njacobs5074 wrote: post #2

I agree with the author's assessment that having the kanji, the furigana, and the English is really helpful for learning. But I couldn't help but notice that the the software didn't romanize 困った correctly. It was "koma ta" when it really should have been "komatta". And I wish I didn't have to use Chrome :|

Request a Firefox version. It might not be hard to port.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

roca wrote: post #3

njacobs5074 wrote: post #2

I agree with the author's assessment that having the kanji, the furigana, and the English is really helpful for learning. But I couldn't help but notice that the the software didn't romanize 困った correctly. It was "koma ta" when it really should have been "komatta". And I wish I didn't have to use Chrome :|

Request a Firefox version. It might not be hard to port.

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Post by kick » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:03 AM UTC

roca wrote: post #3

njacobs5074 wrote: post #2

I agree with the author's assessment that having the kanji, the furigana, and the English is really helpful for learning. But I couldn't help but notice that the the software didn't romanize 困った correctly. It was "koma ta" when it really should have been "komatta". And I wish I didn't have to use Chrome :|

Request a Firefox version. It might not be hard to port.

Yeah, you can basically automate WebExtensions porting. There used to be a browser extension that did it for you.

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Post by cm2012 » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:07 AM UTC

Really cool tool. Honestly the catalogue sort alone on the site was useful for finding which shows on Netflix even have Korean subtitles.

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Post by serf » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:07 AM UTC

What would be needed to make this off-line capable with supplied media? Just a bunch of well-formatted SRT subtitle files?

Obviously some kind of lookup between languages too, but what i'm asking is : is this just a fancy srt/language api parser?

I want to use this, but I don't use Netflix. It looks very cool.

Re: Language Learning with Netflix extension

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Post by grizzles » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:09 AM UTC

I asked for this on HN a few weeks back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853163

I really hope it supports Hanyu Pinyin. So excited.

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Post by tluyben2 » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:10 AM UTC

Somewhat offtopic; I wish extensions would work on mobile browsers... I watch Netflix on iOS or streaming from iOS to chromecast.

I see it is recently somewhat possible to run extensions on Android via a custom Chrome install. Does that work well?

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Post by hrasyid » Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 5:11 AM UTC

I think having subtitles in your native language can hurt learning because it tends to be easier to just follow the subtitle than actually trying to understand the target language. You can't read both at the same time.

But I agree that Netflix is a great resource for learning a foreign language. I went from zero to being able to understand a normal TV show in the target language in one year, mostly by watching children's videos in YouTube and Netflix. In my opinion, what's more important is (1) the ability to order/group videos by simplicity after filtering it by target language (even children shows vary a lot in difficulty and for learning it's very important to choose the right difficulty for you) and probably (2) the ability to slow down the playback speed like YouTube.