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Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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post #15

Have you done any work on trying to make the opposite? Injecting English words into Japanese text to make it easier to read? I find that students of Japanese often have enough grammar to read widely after finishing a couple of beginner textbooks, but they are completely held back by vocabulary.

I have a deep understanding of this point, a lack of vocabulary makes reading Japanese materials very difficult.

For this scenario, we will translate the Japanese text completely into English first, then inject japanese words in to the english text, the translated text with the injected Japanese words is displayed next to the original material.

This is the main feature I've been using myself, you can try it out and see if it's the feature you want.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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> Just hover to get translation Translating everything into your native language is pretty universally considered a very bad habit in language pedagogy.

I hear this often but haven’t seen too many translation-free alternatives for the non-immersion tasks (eg: memorizing vocabulary for a standardized exam, daily study in a non-immersive environment). Have you seen any good monolingual techniques beyond “just get tons of exposure”?

I’ve been experimenting with monolingual vocab this month but it is too soon to say if I like it or not: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/korean-language/monolingual-vo...

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Is there a similar tool/extension that can show the Japanese word in romaji rather than hiragana or katakana?

Same, I love the idea - but I cannot read the hiragana/katakana (heck even: はい hai yes Edit: Decided to make my own firefox addon to do it, no worry about daily limits and I can simply update a json file with more words when I feel like I'm remembering things.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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I tried the pronunciation feature, which works less than awesome on my system. I am happy to share that "語彙" is pronounced "chinese letter chinese letter", while for "効果的" it is "chinese letter chinese letter chinese letter".

Is that just my Debian/Firefox system? Or is "AI slop" the reason here?

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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post #7

Nice job! There have been quite a few of these language substitution extensions over the years. (Language Immersion, Polyglot, MindTheWord, etc.) I have a personal extension that I wrote (close to 12 years ago at this point) which does the same thing - translates random words on websites as you browse according to your linguistic level. It vastly predates LLMs though so it's all built on sentence segmentation, POS an…

I was hoping to take a look at Linguaswap, but it isn't on your GitHub. Is it available anywhere?
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