Cool idea! I tried French with manual input. How do I move on, there is no button to advance.
Sorry it is a bit hidden. You should press 'enter' on the keyboard.
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
#182Initial reactions. 1) Let us keep the right sidebar permanently out, and DON'T grey out the rest of the screen. I want to be able to click on target language words and immediately see them. Like, you've given us the translated sentence, but I can't see which word is which; 2) Colour _the same words_ in both languages when doing mouseover; 3) Or just highlight BOTH as we're listening [but note issue below!]; 4) Make t…
Thanks for all the feedback! Really appreciated!
1. Makes sense! 2./3. That's a bit hard, but like point 6 I think it is possible to map certain parts. 4. Makes sense 5. I put it on the roadmap but I think it is not so much of a priority now. I want to have an offline mode at a certain point (as well as a dedicated app) 6. Yes, this is hard and expensive. But I think that I should have a high quality section with proper quality control. I have some ideas to quickly create lessons as a teacher, but right now I'm mainly firefighting stability and quality
Thanks again for the extensive write-up
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#183Initial reactions. 1) Let us keep the right sidebar permanently out, and DON'T grey out the rest of the screen. I want to be able to click on target language words and immediately see them. Like, you've given us the translated sentence, but I can't see which word is which; 2) Colour _the same words_ in both languages when doing mouseover; 3) Or just highlight BOTH as we're listening [but note issue below!]; 4) Make t…
Thanks for all the feedback! Really appreciated! 1. Makes sense! 2./3. That's a bit hard, but like point 6 I think it is possible to map certain parts. 4. Makes sense 5. I put it on the roadmap but I think it is not so much of a priority now. I want to have an offline mode at a certain point (as well as a dedicated app) 6. Yes, this is hard and expensive. But I think that I should have a high quality section with pro…
For 2/3 — isn’t it just another api call to get the mappings [solving 6 as a side effect] then somehow wiring it up to the frontend like you already do?
The sidebar greying out the foreground now and not able to stay locked REALLY breaks flow. Fixing that slightly mitigates.
It’s amazing tho and I’ll subscribe soon enough.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#184This is so good! I've been looking for a tool that will simulate the "listen to the Spiderman movie 50x" experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eliB_y0fmSk and this site can do it!
Late to the party, but I'm currently building an MVP where you learn the vocab to understand a specific youtube video — since it was inspired by literally this video, I figured you may be interested: https://www.videovocab.app/
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#185I tried the Polish and it told me sorry, no news today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry, they should now be there
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#186Lovely idea and implementation, Waiting for Slavic languages.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#187Apparently 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.
You fixed the videos!
This is awesome :)
I had to (was able to) slow the videos to 1/2 speed (no tengo muchas parablas dontcha know) but this is much better training than Duolingo
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#188Great 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.
I've changed the UX to be click & drop instead of dragging it. Much better on mobile (and desktop too).
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#189This is really cool! How did you select the languages to support? I was surprised that you included Finnish and German yet excluded Swedish (the language I would want to use), and I'm wondering what the blockers are for the other Nordic languages.