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Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

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post #21

For some reason, probably my corporate firewall, this is blocked by certificate errors for me.

Probably YouTube is blocked by the corporate firewall. Or my whole domain?

Mines' the same. My local firewall blocked the site when the YouTube embbed tried to play, and when I switched to my work VPN it blocked the domain altogether.

Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

#33
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! And yes I'll add it soon. I'm Dutch so I could validate the videos. > Was this related to the amount of content available? Yes, Portuguese is available in the app, but I only transcribe the Easy Portuguese videos for now so I don't have a lot of content available at the moment.

I checked the Portuguese content available and you should clarify it's Brazilian (and change the flag to the Brazilian one so it doesn't induce in error).

Yes, will do that. Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

#34
post #21

For some reason, probably my corporate firewall, this is blocked by certificate errors for me.

Probably YouTube is blocked by the corporate firewall. Or my whole domain?

Youtube itself is fine. It's not a domain block but "certificate issuer unrecognized". Palo Alto Networks?

Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

#36

Apparently I need to sign in to protect the community or s/t So there was no way to play the video. Also that blinding flash of white when it starts is unnecessary cruelty

Aj, sorry about that. I think it is YouTube blocking you. I didn't think of that edge case yet so I think my app will keep trying to play the video. Thanks for the report.

Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news

#40

I tried the japanese version. I like that you are using real Japanese language YouTube videos. You can see the kanji on the videos though so it kind of defeated the point. Hide the video? Great idea though and very fun too.

Thanks for trying! You can hide the video by clicking the video button.
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