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Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

bw86 wrote: post #28

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?

Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it.

I tried the above words in Chrome, and got the same problem. sorry about that, our tool is far from perfect. this is a bug in the extension, we will fix it asap.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by terhechte »

marak830 wrote: post #25
FuturisticLover wrote: post #24

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.

Do you perchance have this on Github? I like the idea but would love it for another language, so would be interested in your add-on.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

skeledrew wrote: post #29

Interesting. I'd love to get something like this into things I use frequently. Primary issue for me is, though I often browse HN for example, I only do so using an app. Generally I rarely use the browser for anything beyond research and linked articles.

You're absolutely right, we typically spend more time our our phones for most people. we're also preparing to port this feature to mobile, possibly based on the mobile version of Firefox browser.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

FuturisticLover wrote: post #24

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

I don't know a tool like this.

But this feature seems to be a fairly common requirement; we can consider add a switcher to implementing it.

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

skeledrew wrote: post #30
vunderba wrote: 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?

Same here, i also want to have a try.

BTW, i like the blog

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by marak830 »

terhechte wrote: post #32
marak830 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you perchance have this on Github? I like the idea but would love it for another language, so would be interested in your add-on.

I don't, but I can.

I've just whipped one together and am currently testing it out, I won't have time tonight but check back tomorrow and I should have it up by then. (I'll post a reply to my own comment here)

Re: Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

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Post by englishcat »

LandenLove wrote: post #13

The concept of "injecting" Japanese into text written in a different language is interesting. But I feel the presentation of word definitions are not great. Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/ or https://jisho.org/search/kotoba would be preferred. E.g. 言葉ーことばーLanguage, word or phraseーKanji definitionsーSample sentence

Thanks for you feedback, agreed.

The current version of word definition is somewhat rudimentary. right now we supported four languages(English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean), but we dont take much time to optimize for each language yet.

Our thought is that we will have a shared template across all the learning language, but also have abilities to customize the word definition template for language-specific needs.

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