An Aberrational Way to Learn a Language
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#2Maybe it's just been too long since my last coffee, but I don't understand what's happening here.
Dakwak appears to be a tool wherein people can pay for i18n services on web properties they own, and yet from Kumar's description it's like he's using duolingo.
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#3Maybe it's just been too long since my last coffee, but I don't understand what's happening here. Dakwak appears to be a tool wherein people can pay for i18n services on web properties they own, and yet from Kumar's description it's like he's using duolingo.
Duolingo is one thing, but DakWak let's you see the words on the page. This allows for a spatial sense of the words.
Remember in school when you used to remember where something was on the page? This is the same thing.
It means I can see the actual words on the page and have a higher recall of the instance of the word.
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#4This most likely was not the author's intention, but it reads like an ad. We can pay them money to auto translate our own website. The learning stage appears to come from the manual corrections that come after that, and having a friend "grade" his corrections.
A cheaper approach would be to translate from native to non native language using google (or whatever other free tool you want), and performing the same translation step w/friend to assess your progress.
If I am missing something, please speak up so or modify your blog so that we can make use of your technique.
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#5@kumarski - I just left this comment on your blog, but it might not have posted, so I'll leave it here too:
Hi there -- My name is David and I'm the co-founder and CTO of a company called Nulu. We teach foreign languages in about 5 minutes a day using news content (so it's inherently interesting and engaging). Would love to hear your thoughts on our platform, which is in use today by tens of thousands of people throughout Latin America and the United States to learn English and Spanish, respectively. Shoot me an email when you get a chance!
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#6This most likely was not the author's intention, but it reads like an ad. We can pay them money to auto translate our own website. The learning stage appears to come from the manual corrections that come after that, and having a friend "grade" his corrections. A cheaper approach would be to translate from native to non native language using google (or whatever other free tool you want), and performing the same transl…
Ooops.
The admin panel of dakwak let's you see multiple phrases separated.
This means it is easier to see the accuracy of your translation versus a computer's for whoever your corrector/teacher/mentor might be.
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#7This most likely was not the author's intention, but it reads like an ad. We can pay them money to auto translate our own website. The learning stage appears to come from the manual corrections that come after that, and having a friend "grade" his corrections. A cheaper approach would be to translate from native to non native language using google (or whatever other free tool you want), and performing the same transl…
Ooops. The admin panel of dakwak let's you see multiple phrases separated. This means it is easier to see the accuracy of your translation versus a computer's for whoever your corrector/teacher/mentor might be.
Yea, that definitely sounds more useful than what the post alludes to. Any chance you can post a screen shot?
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#8@kumarski - I just left this comment on your blog, but it might not have posted, so I'll leave it here too: Hi there -- My name is David and I'm the co-founder and CTO of a company called Nulu. We teach foreign languages in about 5 minutes a day using news content (so it's inherently interesting and engaging). Would love to hear your thoughts on our platform, which is in use today by tens of thousands of people throu…
feel free to message me at engineer (at) kumar (dot) vc .
If you're in the valley, tennis or lunch works best to catch me.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ooops. The admin panel of dakwak let's you see multiple phrases separated. This means it is easier to see the accuracy of your translation versus a computer's for whoever your corrector/teacher/mentor might be.
Yea, that definitely sounds more useful than what the post alludes to. Any chance you can post a screen shot?
sure thing. I'm working off my mobile phone right now. Let me post a screenshot later this evening to reveal what I'm talking about.
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#10We are actually implementing Dakwak in our website. It's by far the fastest & easiest web translation I've ever seen. Trust me, you are not going to understand unless you try a demo. It literally took me 60 seconds to translate the website into 50+ languages.