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Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
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Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#52Looks promising, please let me know if you're able to add Swedish or if that's on a roadmap.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#53I've checked out the Japanese one, but I'd say that it's definitely no where near "real-world content" IMO. Just the usual tortuously slow-paced, artificially dumbed-down dialogue you'd expect out of classroom recordings.
Most of the videos also contain subtitles, which defeats the purpose of the exercises (you can disable the video manually though). Another issue is that some of the words are segmented very unnaturally (e.g. [み][ません]), so it's unclear how you're expected to fill them in.
In the end if what you really want is "real-world content", then you just need to go out there and find them yourselves - they're everywhere.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#54That's neat !
Although I got an issue on the Finnish challenge, when I drag the (correct) word "koho" it transforms into the (incorrect) word "koko". I thought I missclicked and tried the whole challenge again but I reproduced it despite being very careful.
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#55Hmm, embedded youtube videos just do not work for me anymore. Maybe because I have too many privacy extensions enabled in firefox. I just get the "sign in to prove you're not a bot" message, and no way to sign in except manually opening youtube and trying to find the same video.
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#56One more thing, just in general: Some people are complaining that some languages work better than others. This seems to be a common issue now with the availability of AI (both voice recognition and LLMs): there's a temptation to expand into as many languages as possible, simply because you can.
My advice would be to have languages default to an "alpha" state, and only progress them to "beta" and "1.0" state when they reach certain milestones, as defined by community feedback.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#57Amazing, this is really awesome
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#58I tried an exercise with Italian, but for some reason one of the words is not in the list to drag and drop ("qualcuno"), so I’m stuck: https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/cm8y1r2cv004m8v1pr775ko...
Edit: also tried in French, and it shows some words in red (I guess that means "invalid" -- please don’t convey information with color only) although they are correct: https://app.fluentsubs.com/exercises/cm8y1o6d5002s8v1p2h0m2f...
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#59The English icon has the Union Jack flag rather than the US flag, so it automatically elevates the service above Duolingo for me.
English (Traditional) vs English (Simplified)
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#60It's a shame the news is so depressing.