It looks great - nice work. I tried the french example and found it challenging and useful - a great addition to my duo lingo practice. So much so that I signed up. But in doing so I lost the credits that Id apparently acquired by completing the example which was a little disappointing. I hadnt seen the Easy French videos before - they look nice too.
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#12Really cool idea! I tried a few Spanish ones (I speak Spanish) and unfortunately it was marking things as incorrectly wrong on 2/5 videos I did!
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#13first screen is 'Select a language' - maybe good to make clear if that's your own language, or your target learning language
True, I selected my own language at first
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#14Awesome idea! Do you plan to add Portuguese soon? I found it surprising that Dutch is in there before it given there are far fewer speakers. Was this related to the amount of content available?
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#15Hey, this looks really nice and worked like a breeze for French!
Question: out of the processing steps you mention - transcription, quality filtering, segment selection, and (I guess) wrong-word selection) are there any truly manual steps? Those would be the ones that prevent you from building this for just about any language that has good transcription available, right?
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#16I just tried the Dutch (my native language) version, and it looks neat, but at some point it asked me to type Emmeloord, which is a small town in the Netherlands. That would be very challenging for someone learning the language without being relatively familiar with the Netherlands, so maybe you can tell the LLM to avoid names?
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#17As a resident Duolingo apologist this is certainly awesome! I appreciate how little landing-page fluff there was before I could give it a shot. I tried Japanese and felt it was only reasonable in tandem with my in-built translation extension, since Kanji-reading knowledge itself is a major hurdle of learning. Furigana would really help this, but personally, being able to translate the words I pick helps a lot during…
Thank you! And great suggestions!
I focussed first on European languages as I'm learning French. But I'll put some more effort in improving the Japanese experience since it seems to be very popular.
> but if there's an intention for bookmarking languages of interest for separate collections of videos & transcription exercises I can say I'd be happy to pay, honestly.
Would a language selection box at the top be enough? Or do you mean a more elaborate way to switch between languages?
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#18Pretty cool honestly, very nice job. The UX is well made, no distractions, you can consider doing several small sessions during the day to learn during breaks. I love it! I would personally be quite interested in Chinese (in that case, I would strongly recommend putting the accents on latin characters, otherwise users cannot know how to pronounce).
I tried Spanish and Japanese. A tiny recommendation for Japanese: it would be nice to have both kanjis and hiraganas in the same block for the word choices. That way, you can decouple the learning of kanjis from the pure listening.
Great work, really!
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#19This looks great! A humble request: a more button that I can press to sign up for an email when a language I seek gets added.
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#20Nice, tried it. Looks cool. On the phone the drag and drop is a bit tricky. Dropped a wrong word and it got score emediatly as wrong, even though I was going to fix it. I expected scoring to happen after I click "submit". But maybe that's the same in Duolingo, no idea.
Thanks for trying. Yes this is on the roadmap. I think it is more intuitive for phones to click, and then hit submit instead of dragging (especially with large fingers hah)