So let's say I have some movie without any kind of subtitles and I play it via Fleex... will it fetch automatically the English or Spanish subtitles? Or that only works with DVDs that include subtitles?
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#52It crashed two times when I first tried to use it so I tried another file which didn't have subtitles. When I finally loaded a movie and downloaded my own subtitles that I imported it kept loading and didn't show any subtitles after which I've uninstalled.
Now that's annoying - if you're so inclined, could you maybe reach out to us through our contact page? We'd love to try and understand what's causing the problem.
The player stuff is pretty new for us, so we're still in bug-hunting mode...
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#53Please, pretty please with sugar on top, also add the ability to delay the subtitles!
From listening to a lot of Pimsleur I know that, for me, anticipation and correction is one of the most powerful ways to learn a language.
I'm pretty sure that listening to a dialog, trying to work out what is said and being corrected a few seconds later by the actual translation would have an amazing impact on a lot of people (although it might be a bit too hard for beginners.)
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#54> Fleex shows you mixed subtitles, so you get the hard parts in your language and the easier parts in English.
This seems like a Very Hard Problem. How did you approach it? Do you deal with polysemous words gracefully?
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#55Please, pretty please with sugar on top, also add the ability to delay the subtitles! From listening to a lot of Pimsleur I know that, for me, anticipation and correction is one of the most powerful ways to learn a language. I'm pretty sure that listening to a dialog, trying to work out what is said and being corrected a few seconds later by the actual translation would have an amazing impact on a lot of people (alth…
If you click the subtitles settings button, you'll see there's a tab for that. You can also dynamically change your subs selection, in case you're unhappy with the subs fleex auto-selected for you.
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#56The app sounds great ;-)
But learning english from media is interesting, and curious...
I always say that I learned english from Star Trek and D&D Manuals. That's why I know quite well what a vorpal sword or a wormhole are. But I had to ask a few months after I started living in Ireland how you say that thing in the bathroom where the water came from (a tab)
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#57So let's say I have some movie without any kind of subtitles and I play it via Fleex... will it fetch automatically the English or Spanish subtitles? Or that only works with DVDs that include subtitles?
Fleex doesn't work with DVDs yet, but your first scenario is fully covered.
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#58Smart! 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...
... except that you'd have a ready-made market of 2bn if you did !
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#59The app sounds great ;-) But learning english from media is interesting, and curious... I always say that I learned english from Star Trek and D&D Manuals. That's why I know quite well what a vorpal sword or a wormhole are. But I had to ask a few months after I started living in Ireland how you say that thing in the bathroom where the water came from (a tab)
You must mean a tap ;-)
You seem all set for the future though!
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#60This is awesome.Unfortunately i have been looking for a similar service; which i am willing to pay for, to improve my Spanish. Movies and music is great supplements to learn a language.
Check out Yabla:
http://www.yabla.com/