This is nice!
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
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Is it? At the end of the day, whether it's effective or not, Duolingo sells the feeling that you are learning a language to people. Winning a competition with Duolingo means doing better at making people feel like they are learning a language -- the strategy to win against Duolingo probably involves watering down the learning even more, to better sell the feeling. A good way to think about it is look at some organiza…
Yes, it takes commitment to master a language. In the case of Japanese, which traditionally takes the most weeks to master when coming from English, we made Japanese Complete based on frequency analysis to help speed up the process of acquisition. With 777 kanji carefully selected by frequency you can get 90% coverage of kanji in the wild. This is about a third of the "daily use" set of ~2200 kanji so the process is…
Very cool; and pretty too!
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a bit like segmenting "don't see" into "don't" and "see." ません is the negative of the auxiliary ます just as "don't" is the negative of the auxiliary "do." If you have to split Japanese text into words and want to be principled about it, treating ません as a separate word is not a bad way to go about it. But of course there are other ways, so a "fill in the blank" question with two gaps right next to each other is gen…
The point is not that you can't cut みません into み and ません. The point is that it should be one single gap in the first place. It's like cutting gaps out of English sentence like this: I'm [go][ing] to beat the shit out of that guy. Sure we know the logical way to break down 'going' is 'go' and '-ing', but it should be one single gap anyway.
Damn, where did that example come from? :P
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#164I liked this a lot. I'm in the process of moving to Italy and am deep in learning Italian. I loved the different speeds and accents from the speakers.
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#165Great stuff! Small UX thing: Make it so you can just click a word to fill in the next empty spot, instead of having to drag, similar to when building sentences in Duolingo. Especially when not on a touchscreen, having to drag is pretty painful and reduces accessibility.
Aaa, you saved me, thought it's broken, but you have to drag this thing! ps. video shouldn't loop as default, it's annoying.
I actually like the default looping. When I’m learning and trying to train my ear, I need to listen to the phrase over and over and it’s helpful to not have to click play again.
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#166Love the idea! Any chance you could get Mandarin?
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s the problem with conflating nations and language. For example, the very first English video I got was a South African English accent.
It works to a first approximation. Of the five languages I have configured in KDE, three of them are country-specific. So I use the flag indicator, which is far quicker for me to locate and identify out of the corner of my eye than would be a text label (which would require using the retina and thus more time and attention).
Sure, fine for personal uses. I mean broadly and generally.
As for English, the United States has far and away the largest number of native English speakers.
Not that I think the stars and stripes has any more right to represent “English” as a concept any more than the Union Jack. If you’re going on origin, why not the flag of England instead?
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#168I absolutely love the idea. I would honestly use this. However, when I tried the English learning, it incorrectly marked words wrong several times. Something to check out.
Thank you! It seems that the video is pretty well transcribed but it unluckily selected segments with a few words missing :/
The words were correct in the YouTube subtitles, both in spelling and sequence. It must have been a problem with the transcription or some other bug (whitespace?)
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#169Would love to see a way to understand the english equivalent of each word. As it stands now you aren't really expanding your vocab if you are just listening and copying what they say without knowing the word's meaning.
You can click on a word after finishing the segment to get a translation.
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Thanks! I decided on it because I think people are fed up with subscription systems and it was easy to implement. However, I made two sales (yay! first time ever) but I paid $20 today to DeepL. I might change it in the future.
I just purchased 6 months of Pro access. Good luck with this project! It has good potential.
Thank you!!