Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building

Post by dpig_ » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 2:37 AM UTC

Alex-Programs wrote: post #59

dpig_ wrote: post #53

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Any plans to add Hindi, being the third-most spoken language in the world?

Sure, I'll add it. It isn't supported by DeepL, so it'd have higher latency (alongside a few other languages that are Claude-only). I can contact you when it's added, if you like - perhaps you could email alex (at) nuenki.app?

Post by rapidpolyglot » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 12:05 PM UTC

claylimo wrote: post #11

sebnun wrote: post #5

Great work, I had a similar need, and built a similar app (using podcasts) [1] I originally planned to add some kind of SRS to it, but I found that I learned much better just reading things in context instead of explicitly using SRS to memorize them. Steve Kaufmann (creator of LingQ) explains this better here [2] [1] https://www.langturbo.com [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t26IPxExmzs

Similar to LingQ there is Migaku which can do this for YouTube and other sites. It definitely has significantly aided my learning and made it a zero friction and even fun experience to learn another language.

Post by 5eyyah » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 8:42 PM UTC

arbayi wrote: post #46

tkgally wrote: post #25

This looks really good. I wish I had had something like this many years ago when I was studying languages. Somebody has already suggested adding spaced repetition and audio, which I agree with completely. One more suggestion: In addition to having the LLM give you the meaning and example for the context in which you originally saw the word, also ask it to provide the word’s other main meanings and examples of it bein…

Thank you! I think that would be a good feature. I use the app, and it works fine when I add words as I encounter them, but when I later revisit the list, I sometimes wish I could see the sentences where the word were used (originally) to better understand it. Based on your suggestion, having a 'show examples' button/link below the meaning would be a cool feature to add.

Post by jkoff » Sat, Jan 25, 2025, 11:13 PM UTC

learning-tr wrote: post #61

jkoff wrote: post #42

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I did a double-take at the description since for a second I thought we were building the same tool. This is really cool, and seems like it'd greatly expand the set of podcasts I can listen to. What I'm working on is different but similarly aimed at breaking through the intermediate plateau. I'm generating comprehensible input in podcast form, targeting the vocabulary used to fit a specific learning goal (e.g. "I want…

Wow this is super cool but how do you ensure the content is useful and correct?

Post by learning-tr » Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 1:01 AM UTC

jkoff wrote: post #68

learning-tr wrote: post #61

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Wow this is super cool but how do you ensure the content is useful and correct?

To be clear, I haven't shared this with anyone because I'm not yet sure that the content is useful and correct. As far as where I'm at: - I've listened to it in my target language for N hours. To my ear, it sounds correct and I've learned some new words that I then heard used consistently in native media. - Next, I'd like to set it to teach me a language that I already know, so that I can more reliably and easily spo…