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Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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Post by glurgh »

Natsu wrote: post #37
[deleted] wrote: post #5

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> I've always been uncomfortable with my pronunciations. You mean "my pronunciation." English is pretty weird about when we do and do not use the plural form and this trips up a lot of people :) I wouldn't mention it, but given that you're here for the specific purpose of improving your English, I thought you'd want to know. Speaking of which, mass nouns always trip non-native speakers up, especially in IT. Do NOT us…

You mean "my pronunciation."

It's not the most natural thing to say but it can still fly:

"Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, [...]"

in a way that 'softwares' and 'advices' would not.

I would add 'codes' to that use as it is often misused

To make this even more confusing, in some contexts, 'codes' is used as a plural in ways you never would for general purpose programming, even though it refers to the same thing. Physics (nuclear, in particular) simulations are a case in point:

http://nuclear.llnl.gov/simulation/

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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Post by rdl »

I'm a native American English speaker who is also into startups (and has lived in a lot of places, communicating with non-native speakers in English, as well as my really horrible Kurdish, Pashto, Dari, French, Arabic, etc. phrases...). Observations:

1) You should fully Americanize all the spellings. It is American English people want.

2) This would be far too boring for me to stick with if it is things like "I went to the cinema yesterday". A coherent story, or even better, a domain-specific lesson, would be a much more engaging way to teach a language. I was able to learn when it was "talk to my driver about the security situation and drive plan", but never cared enough for casual conversation. I am usually happy to talk to people who speak horrible English about things I care about, which presumably for the hn audience is tech, startups, etc., but not about sports (cricket!?). If you could do a vertical-specific sayafter.me it would be awesome.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#43

Post by spader725 »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #39
znt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right, you have to be logged in to see the subscription page at: http://www.sayafter.me/subscriptions/subscribe . I will change it to be available for anonymous visitors. Thanks!

Why not just say the price here?

consider it a "dark pattern" to trick users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301378

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#44

Post by te_chris »

rdl wrote: post #42

I'm a native American English speaker who is also into startups (and has lived in a lot of places, communicating with non-native speakers in English, as well as my really horrible Kurdish, Pashto, Dari, French, Arabic, etc. phrases...). Observations: 1) You should fully Americanize all the spellings. It is American English people want. 2) This would be far too boring for me to stick with if it is things like "I went…

Not all people want American English thank you very much. Every time I'm forced to type 'color' a small part of me dies.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#45

Post by yansuck »

znt wrote: post #19
reustle wrote: post #17

I watched your intro video and have 2 points to comment on * "Can I have a spaghetti" isn't the right way to say it. Drop the "a" * Have a native english speaker read it out, not a computer generated voice (if that isn't already the plan)

Yeah the video does not have correct grammar in some sentences. Actual human speech is on the roadmap but not until I fix the main issue, which is finding a repeatable marketing/sales cycle. Open to suggestions though!

Good job for the work. But seriously, I don't think you even have a MVP yet. If the purpose of this site is to correct people's accent, having a generate voice(huge electronic accent) is not acceptable at all.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#46

Post by dylangs1030 »

gojomo wrote: post #28

Coming this fall to the Mountain View Community Playhouse, a classic musical updated for today's Valley: My Fair Founder Can master symbolicist Henry Higgins (played by Paul Graham in his first musical-theater role) win a bet by coaching ambitious but crude-speaking Eliza Doolittle to be the toast of Sand Hill Road in three short months? You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sing along to tunes such as: The Gain in this D…

My girlfriend works in Broadway. I wish she knew enough about the recent foreign accents thing to find this as funny as I do. Well done.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#47

Post by indefatigable »

te_chris wrote: post #44
rdl wrote: post #42

I'm a native American English speaker who is also into startups (and has lived in a lot of places, communicating with non-native speakers in English, as well as my really horrible Kurdish, Pashto, Dari, French, Arabic, etc. phrases...). Observations: 1) You should fully Americanize all the spellings. It is American English people want. 2) This would be far too boring for me to stick with if it is things like "I went…

Not all people want American English thank you very much. Every time I'm forced to type 'color' a small part of me dies.

Wot wot pip pip cheerio get the torch line's engaged eat some crisps there's a good chap.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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Post by gojomo »

dylangs1030 wrote: post #46
gojomo wrote: post #28

Coming this fall to the Mountain View Community Playhouse, a classic musical updated for today's Valley: My Fair Founder Can master symbolicist Henry Higgins (played by Paul Graham in his first musical-theater role) win a bet by coaching ambitious but crude-speaking Eliza Doolittle to be the toast of Sand Hill Road in three short months? You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sing along to tunes such as: The Gain in this D…

My girlfriend works in Broadway. I wish she knew enough about the recent foreign accents thing to find this as funny as I do. Well done.

Thanks! To help those who know the recent kerfluffle moreso than My Fair Lady:

"Why Can't The English Learn To Speak"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhninL_G3Fg

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#49

Post by laureny »

znt wrote: post #15
rattray wrote: post #11

I couldn't find your pricing anywhere... I'm a native English speaker, so this product isn't relevant to me, but I wouldn't want be comfortable recommending it to anyone without knowing how much it'd cost after those first 3 months. Really critical to have in an easy-to-find place on the website IMO.

You are right, you have to be logged in to see the subscription page at: http://www.sayafter.me/subscriptions/subscribe . I will change it to be available for anonymous visitors. Thanks!

Please say it here or I, probably along with others, will classify your marketing tactics as shady.

Is withholding the price that important that you're willing to risk a reputation black mark on your product?

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

#50

Post by kumarski »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #39
znt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right, you have to be logged in to see the subscription page at: http://www.sayafter.me/subscriptions/subscribe . I will change it to be available for anonymous visitors. Thanks!

Why not just say the price here?

$30/month

$70 for 3 months

$250 for 12 months.

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