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Re: Show HN: Vocab Miner – find new words in Spanish from texts

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I created something similar to this a while ago, but perhaps significantly more niche.

I like reading classical Dari poetry, but I'm not a native speaker. Every now and then, I read a couplet which has a word that I don't know, or that the dictionaries available to me (either from Iran or Afghanistan) don't provide clear explanations for.

I indexed a whole bunch of works from classical poets from across Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East and created https://baytyab.com/ which lets me put in one of those words that I've come across, and see other couplets that the word has been used in to help me get a better, contextual understanding of its meaning(s) and usage(s).

Re: Show HN: Vocab Miner – find new words in Spanish from texts

#12

The one-at-a-time UX is too slow I think. I'd rather see N words at a time and select the ones I don't know. I'm also not sure how to use this tool in a learning workflow since you have to be able to copy and paste a bunch of text. I guess the use-case is when you're reading articles online on a desktop device, but as you read the article you can already pinpoint the words that you don't know, yet this tool makes you…

> A better version of this tool might be a browser plugin that lets you click words as you read content online and add to a vocab list. This

There is a browser extension that does this called yomichan.

Re: Show HN: Vocab Miner – find new words in Spanish from texts

#13
Shameless plug, I'm currently making an app that does the same thing for German: https://vokabeln.io, it does not work 100% correctly yet, because german has just an infinite amount of compound words, but if you are looking for an app that extracts words from a text and then makes you practice with spaced repetition, then it gets the job done.
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