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

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Post by klipt »

boerseth wrote: post #32

> The hardest part about learning a language is knowing what to learn. I disagree with this. The hardest part about learning a language is finding content and resources in the target language that are both engaging and comprehensible at your current level. It's hard to find books, shows, or conversation partners, all the way through that critical awkward stage from beginner to vaguely proficient. The parts of the lan…

> It's hard to find books, shows, or conversation partners, all the way through that critical awkward stage from beginner to vaguely proficient.

Children's books? Children also learn from scratch. I think an adult reading books targeted to progressively higher ages would do reasonably.

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

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Post by famouswaffles »

klipt wrote: post #71
boerseth wrote: post #32

> The hardest part about learning a language is knowing what to learn. I disagree with this. The hardest part about learning a language is finding content and resources in the target language that are both engaging and comprehensible at your current level. It's hard to find books, shows, or conversation partners, all the way through that critical awkward stage from beginner to vaguely proficient. The parts of the lan…

> It's hard to find books, shows, or conversation partners, all the way through that critical awkward stage from beginner to vaguely proficient. Children's books? Children also learn from scratch. I think an adult reading books targeted to progressively higher ages would do reasonably.

Children are native speakers. This is something that doesn't quite hit you until you seriously undertake language learning.

assuming we are talking about children's content in general (and not content for babies), you will find that it is not much more comprehensible than the adult stuff.

a language learning beginner is nowhere near the command or vocabulary of a child.

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

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Post by rsanek »

clbrmbr wrote: post #27

I look forward to giving user feedback when I’m able to signup. > our Humane Spaced repeition system. Based off of the popular FSRS, our Spaced Repeition System will adapt to your review style. Take a few weeks off? No problem. Want to study ahead one day? No problem. Took a 2 year vacation? We're jealous, but we've got you covered. I really resonate with this. I find that after a long break, I have forgotten a lot l…

FSRS has been available in Anki via extensions for more than a year, and recently landed natively. It can be enabled in deck settings with a toggle. https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#fsrs

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

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Post by dang »

strongly-typed wrote: post #30

I recognize this comment has little to do with this post, but as a fellow obscure language aficionado, I just wanted to recommend probably most obscure language I’m legitimately interested in called Modern Indo European. It’s a conlang that takes the reconstructed Proto Indo European and fills in the missing parts to turn it into a usable language. That’s all, just wanted to give them a shoutout. ——— I’m also an avid…

This sounds like a good topic for an HN submission! what's the best article about it?

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

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Post by wackget »

The regular homepage is super laggy for me.

It also doesn't explain what the product actually is.

For example, I clicked on "TV shows" and it says:

> Just search for your favorites > You type in the name of the TV show you want to watch, and we'll do the heavy lifting. With over one million episodes at your fingertips, we've got you covered.

So... is this app a media streaming service? Does it host all this content or does it require me to pay for it? Is it legal? How does this help me learn languages - will it provide subtitles? Spoken audio dubbing? Are these AI-generated or does it fetch from existing translation resources?

If it's AI-generated I cannot possibly see how it'll be accurate.

Way too many questions.

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

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Post by pech0rin »

barrell wrote: post #46
ESMP wrote: post #44

I would use it for japanese, but after seeing these two examples of english/japanese translations in the landing page that are nonsense just make me say: no thanks. With such powerful forces leading us astray, it's not surprising we find it so hard to discover what we like to work on. しかし息子が木から落ちたり、娘が妊娠させられたりしたときには、そうした結末に対処せざるを得ない。 規律 Actually they've been told three lies: the stuff they've been taught to regard as…

Honestly, I would not recommend it for Japanese/Chinese atm. We're aware the quality there is really not good. We'll have to spend a couple months dedicated to these languages specifically to clean them up. Still, we don't want to stop our users from learning any language with it, even if it's not well supported. But I've been very transparent with any of our beta testers that Chinese/Japanese are not going to be a g…

I'm also an advanced Japanese learner and find this disappointing. It would be great if your marketing materials said which languages you support and which you don't. It says "learn any language", but I see a lot of comments in here about oh it doesn't work well with this or that language. It makes sense to focus yourself on the languages that you actually do support. Over promise and under deliver is not the way to build trust or a good product.
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