I would love this in Egyptian Arabic.
+1 for Spanish
Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories
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#12If this is using LLMS then it would be great to expand to as many languages as possible because anthing outside of large languages are very poorly served by existing language learning apps. Danish (from english) would be my preference, but I imagine you could have a user configurable pair (I understand the situation is much, much more dire if you don't even presently understand a large language english,spanish,chinese etc)
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#13Would it be possible to add different translation engines, like DeepL or ChatGPT? (ChatGPT in particular is often much better than all the alternatives.)
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#14Thanks for sharing this, I'm trying it out now.
One thing I noticed is that the translation links are auto-detecting the language, so some words are assumed by Google to be a language other than German.
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#15I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?
+1 One could display a small context menu with a "Translate" button whenever the user selects text. (Similarly to the "Share this on Twitter/Facebook/… menu on Medium".)
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#16I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?
That would be really helpful because taken out of context, single words translated to English will often produce very confusing results. My suggestion would be to ditch the google links and provide a properly translated version that is revealed when hovering over a word/phrase. Such a translation could be crowd sourced.
Yea, I can definitely improve that! That sounds like better way to do it. Thanks!
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#17I think this is a really cool idea and would be something I would use. Is there some way to translate short phrases like "drehte sich um" all together rather than word by word?
Nice to hear that and thanks for trying it! About the translations, you are right, that would be better! I will work on that!
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#19This is off to a great start. I've been studying German through various methods for around 3 years now. Mostly as a mental exercise but also because I love German television.
For me, reading has been one of most productive ways to learn.
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#20This is awesome! I've been casually learning German for 200+ days now, so this will make a great addition to my practice. Are the short stories generated by LLMs too?