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Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by themagyar »

sebnun wrote: post #39
themagyar wrote: post #37

This is a great, and b/c pulling from podcasts, can handle hard languages (eg. Hungarian). Smart. Some thoughts: - Buttons to click thru examples for words, waiting is slow - Partial load of podcast screen (for speed) - Playback controls for podcasts would be nice (skip, ff, 1.5x) - Define word in hover would probably be faster/more seamless + pronunciation - Search bar for known words + alphabetical.. (OR if heard N…

Thanks for the feedback. Note that you track your progress seeing the minutes played and the words marked as known when you click on the button on the top right in the "Profile" tab. Is the signup not working for you?

No, never got email. Auto-marking words makes more sense.

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by sebnun »

rickcarlino wrote: post #40

I am ready to pay for premium but I am unable to create an account. First, I need to create a non-anonymous account but when I tried to do that the link says it is already expired even though it’s the first time I’m clicking it. Is it possible my email client is pre-fetching the link? UPDATE: I was able to get around the issue by attempting to login with my unregistered email.

Are you using the app on Android web?

Currently you cannot navigate await from the screen that says "Waiting for your link click", so you will need to open the email in a different app than your browser, or in a different tab.

Sorry about the trouble, I will make this more clear in the UI. If you want you can email me at contact at langturbo dot com and I can look into it.

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by themagyar »

sebnun wrote: post #42
rickcarlino wrote: post #40

I am ready to pay for premium but I am unable to create an account. First, I need to create a non-anonymous account but when I tried to do that the link says it is already expired even though it’s the first time I’m clicking it. Is it possible my email client is pre-fetching the link? UPDATE: I was able to get around the issue by attempting to login with my unregistered email.

Are you using the app on Android web? Currently you cannot navigate await from the screen that says "Waiting for your link click", so you will need to open the email in a different app than your browser, or in a different tab. Sorry about the trouble, I will make this more clear in the UI. If you want you can email me at contact at langturbo dot com and I can look into it.

Recommend using service like clerk to make signup/in easy. (https://clerk.com/pricing). Free for first 10k users.

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by nicolasv »

This is great, I’ve been wanting something like this for a while!

A few points of early feedback after 15min of listening with only “Show Translation” on:

1. Showing only a fragment of each sentence at a time feels hard to follow as in scanning to the start of the next fragment (which can jump around vertically) and lacking the context of previous words

Would you consider a view that shows more of the surrounding words but, like focus mode in iA Writer, grays out the non-current fragment?

2. There are sometimes gaps in transcription/translation

3. I couldn’t find my favourite Spanish podcast, Radio Ambulante, which I feel would probably be quite a popular one for Spanish learners — Any particular reason?

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by sebnun »

nicolasv wrote: post #44

This is great, I’ve been wanting something like this for a while! A few points of early feedback after 15min of listening with only “Show Translation” on: 1. Showing only a fragment of each sentence at a time feels hard to follow as in scanning to the start of the next fragment (which can jump around vertically) and lacking the context of previous words Would you consider a view that shows more of the surrounding wor…

Thanks for the feedback. I can see that there is "Radio Ambulante" podcast from NPR, is it that one?

I see that the search function is a little bit buggy, if you copy paste "Radio Ambulante" in the search bar you should see it.

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by gwd »

You've got nearly 50 languages on there. This is the second language-learning site I've seen launch on HN with a huge number of languages, far more than the team creating the site can possibly have expertise in. I can't help but think that you'd get much better traction choosing one language and making it really high quality and getting a solid core of "fans"; then taking the lessons you've learned from that and adding a second, and so on.

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by nicolasv »

sebnun wrote: post #45
nicolasv wrote: post #44

This is great, I’ve been wanting something like this for a while! A few points of early feedback after 15min of listening with only “Show Translation” on: 1. Showing only a fragment of each sentence at a time feels hard to follow as in scanning to the start of the next fragment (which can jump around vertically) and lacking the context of previous words Would you consider a view that shows more of the surrounding wor…

Thanks for the feedback. I can see that there is "Radio Ambulante" podcast from NPR, is it that one? I see that the search function is a little bit buggy, if you copy paste "Radio Ambulante" in the search bar you should see it.

Yes, found it, thank you!

(For reference, it didn't show up with search term "radio ambulante" but did with "Radio Ambulante")

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by istjohn »

This is great!

A few bits of feedback:

1. It's not at all clear that one should "Bookmark" a snippet to add it to the study queue. Perhaps reword the toast to say "Sentence marked for study" or similar.

2. I can't seem to unmark snippets from the podcast player.

3. The snippets are almost never entire sentences for me, and I would appreciate having quite a bit more context in the snippet review--at minimum, the preceding and following snippets. I should note that the snippet size is fine for reading along with the podcast.

4. I'm very intrigued with the Pimsleur mode. I could see myself being a heavy user of that feature with some tweaking. At my level, repeating everything in English is too much. It would be neat if it only repeated words I haven't marked as known, and if it only repeated that word in translation instead of the entire snippet. I also think I would want to hear the Spanish before the translation to English.

Re: Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

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Post by sebnun »

istjohn wrote: post #48

This is great! A few bits of feedback: 1. It's not at all clear that one should "Bookmark" a snippet to add it to the study queue. Perhaps reword the toast to say "Sentence marked for study" or similar. 2. I can't seem to unmark snippets from the podcast player. 3. The snippets are almost never entire sentences for me, and I would appreciate having quite a bit more context in the snippet review--at minimum, the prece…

I will take note of your feedback, thanks.
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