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Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level

#1
Hey there HN -

Today I'm sharing a demo of my our language learning tool, Phrasing. It's a tool born from the language acquisition hypothesis, too many hours in an anki slog, and a strange desire to always be learning obscure languages.

The method is simple:

1. type in a show

2. learn the most important words

3. watch the show/acquire the words

4. review the words when needed in the future.

On top of that, we're trying to:

- do some novel things with spaced repetition (no more anki slog)

- expand the sort of content you can learn from (I want to to refresh my French by reading The Stormlight Archive)

- make an insanely beautiful tool for all languages (I want to learn Sanskrit and Hawaiian and such)

I think we're off to a great start so far, and I'm happy to be able to share what we have already! We've taken some of our core features, and ripped them out to put them on a playground for HN to explore. There's so much more to come though, this is just the beginning.

I'll be here all day to answer any questions. Thanks for checking it out and have a wonderful day EDIT: This link was meant as a demo so hacker news has something to click around on (as per the rules of Show HN). The main marketing page can be found at https://phrasing.app/ - I think that's causing some confusion

Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
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#2
Not to nitpick, but I found this is a bit ironic:

"Phrasing works by finding you two documents, in two different languages, and connecting them sentence by sentence with eachother. While we're add it, we clean things up, score them, and analyze their relevance in each language."

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#5
post #3

Hi there! I’m getting an “Email rate limit exceeded” error when I try to register, just FYI.

Supabase has been having issues all day, it's possible now their auth is down :') we haven't received enough traffic to bring it down yet.

EDIT: was able to confirm that my supabase instance can't connect to the auth service at the moment. 99% uptime but of course the 1% downtime is when you launch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Not to nitpick, but I found this is a bit ironic: "Phrasing works by finding you two documents, in two different languages, and connecting them sentence by sentence with eachother. While we're add it, we clean things up, score them, and analyze their relevance in each language."

haha yeah, maybe I should at english to my list of languages ;P

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#7
I don't understand what this is. This landing page actually made me annoyed :) .

I doubt you will get many conversions based on current landing page.

> Try clicking around on some of the words below - and make sure to give the audio a listen!

OP I clicked on the text and bunch of tags popped up. I wasn't sure what those tags are or what I am supposed to do after that.

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I don’t know where the translations are coming from, but the quality of the Turkish/English translation was lacking. Unfortunately, It does not inspire enough confidence for me to use this tool.

The demo article only had a couple translations, so we auto-translated some missing ones. Sorry the Turkish one isn't great!

Most of the app we try to encourage you to use professionally translated works to learn whichever language you're studying, so try to do as we say not as we do :D

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#9
Two unrelated items:

I had very good results many years ago polishing the last steps of my French while in France. My tutor used very novel and interesting short articles, one example was a short article about shrimp found in a cave with no light. At the time this was a novel bit of information and quite interesting on its own. I think an effort to find novel and educational information to learn from is an effort well worth the time.

Please add Albanian. I should learn this language but I am not motivated enough. I would definitely give your tool a proper test run.

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post #7

I don't understand what this is. This landing page actually made me annoyed :) . I doubt you will get many conversions based on current landing page. > Try clicking around on some of the words below - and make sure to give the audio a listen! OP I clicked on the text and bunch of tags popped up. I wasn't sure what those tags are or what I am supposed to do after that.

Please be kind. That doesn't stop you being critical, but try and be kind and more helpful.

What's confusing? It's clearly a language learning app, with various features that it seems like the landing page leads you through. The HN link is to the playground, which also does explain things.

Where are you getting stuck?

Perhaps these may help OP improve the page.

edit - I see the comment has been updated to be softened, which I think is a good choice.

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