Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary

Actually, it is yet another tool to learn a language through immersion (classic set of features, watch on youtube/netflix, read a website or book). It has a popup dictionary so you can click on a word and it will show the definition. Nothing new in that regard, except that it has been made with only Korean in mind and does not plan to extends to other languages.

I was learning and still am learning Korean (now using my own tool to learn!). I initially made the tool for myself because none of the tools out there could correctly figure out what a word was in the text. And that's where the biggest challenge was: recognizing the lemma.

A lemma is the dictionary form of a word. An example in English would be "break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking" all becoming "break". In Korean a word cannot always accurately be returned to the lemma; this might lead to several possibilities. Then the reader, with the context can understand which one ends up being the correct one.

Zero IA was used, pure rules based bruteforcing. I do perhaps intend later to use AI, but as a layer on top. I wanted to make sure I can parse massive amounts with cheap computation first. This open me doors to more crazy ideas for later.

You can see a live example on the landing page. Any feedback is appreciated!

Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary
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Hey thanks for the awesome comment! I just made a new account using google oauth with a spare email I had, and seems like it is working perfectly fine. Five other people have managed to create an account using google as well since the post. I would love to know what went wrong but I'm unsure how to help there. Maybe try again ? In any case sorry for the inconvenience.

Ah! Mistake on my end indeed, sorry. I do have settings in the application where people can redefine the colors such as the background or text color. But I haven't done for the colors (red, green, yellow, orange, etc) itself. I am adding that to my task list now.

Nice, I've been building something very similar for German (Vokabeln.io). The biggest problem there was recognizing "trennbare Verben", and words have a lot of conjunctions as well.