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Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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Smart! Any plans to work with multiple languages? I'm an English-speaker, and I'd love something similar in the other direction.

We're focusing on English right now in an effort to stay as lean as possible. There are 2bn English learners on the planet, so from a rational point of view it doesn't really make sense to us to expand to other languages just yet...

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on the tv. It's of course less advanced than this (but more easy/enjoyable). I think this approach could be good at the beginning of the learning process (i.e. I've just begun studyin' French and it's too difficult for me to watch a movie with fr…

A Linux version isn't too far away either - there simply hasn't been much demand for it yet.

think about integrating with common mediaplayer solutions, like XBMC, MythTV etc..

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on the tv. It's of course less advanced than this (but more easy/enjoyable). I think this approach could be good at the beginning of the learning process (i.e. I've just begun studyin' French and it's too difficult for me to watch a movie with fr…

A Linux version isn't too far away either - there simply hasn't been much demand for it yet.

How can I register more demand?

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on the tv. It's of course less advanced than this (but more easy/enjoyable). I think this approach could be good at the beginning of the learning process (i.e. I've just begun studyin' French and it's too difficult for me to watch a movie with fr…

A Linux version isn't too far away either - there simply hasn't been much demand for it yet.

Well.. Have to say, we had it coming posting on HN ;-)

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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Please don't use flags for disambiguating languages.

(http://flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-repres...) is a starting point.

Basically

- some languages are spoken in more than one country (eg. English in US, Britain, Australia, India)

- some countries have more than one language spoken in them (eg. see any large country)

- you will end up accidentally annoying people when you accidentally get it wrong. (is Cantonese, Tibetan and Mongolian the same language as Mandarin? You realise they are not mutually intelligible and come from different language families?)

I suggest you write the language name in the language itself. If you desperately need something short use the Unicode language codes.

Edit: Really like it. Definitely continue.

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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Smart! Any plans to work with multiple languages? I'm an English-speaker, and I'd love something similar in the other direction.

I am also looking forward to have the ability to learn more languages than english especially since a part of the fleex team is most like french speaking.

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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Very cool. When I was in Japan I met a man who had taught himself English mostly from watching movies and tv shows. His proficiency not only exceeded that of my Japanese friends who were studying English in college (although the state of English education in Japan is a whole other story), but he also sounded very natural.

Re: Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows

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I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on the tv. It's of course less advanced than this (but more easy/enjoyable). I think this approach could be good at the beginning of the learning process (i.e. I've just begun studyin' French and it's too difficult for me to watch a movie with fr…

A Linux version isn't too far away either - there simply hasn't been much demand for it yet.

Now there is! Seriously, although there are alternatives that do part of what your player does on Windows/Mac, there is nothing of the sort on Linux. Definitely make it cross-platform.
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