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Re: Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories

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Clicking on the words launches new tabs/windows into Google for translation. Very annoying. sending me to Google as a search link is super annoying. Some words (e.g., war, Tag, um) are not only in German, so the translations can be confusing. Translation can be done prior to displaying the story, and make the words appear as hover boxes, and even provide more language context. The example story is asking me to log in…

I have just improved the word translation so that it doesn't send you to Google as the first option. Let me know what you think :)

Re: Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories

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Thanks for sharing this, I'm trying it out now. One thing I noticed is that the translation links are auto-detecting the language, so some words are assumed by Google to be a language other than German.

Thanks for the feedback! That should be fixed now :) If you have some time, let me know what you think

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Experiencing the same issue. Google is falling apart. It's choosing English as the source language with queries like this, and destination is any language which you may have used recently with translate. A note to the OP: translate "Fischerboote" to english - doesn't work translate "Fischerboote" from german - works

Yep you are totally right, will make those changes and maybe try to have the translation on the same page! Thanks for the feedback!

I have just improved the word translation so that it doesn't send you to Google as the first option. When you have a chance, let me know what you think :)
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