Show HN: A New Way to Learn Languages

If you add a PWA install thing and offline mode that would be interesting to me. Most of my podcast time is on walks. App is useful too for the same reason.

The memorize functionbookmark relation was not obvious to me, making that clearer would be great. I really like the idea of having a sentence, though, that you can test your understanding of instead of just a word.

The Pimsleur mode is really great idea and I love that it's there but the TTS is atrocious. I'm pretty tolerant, but even I would have a hard time listening to that on an hour-long walk, for example.

In a previous life I was a linguist in the military and would definitely have used this if it were available at the time.

- It took me a second to find auto-pause. Maybe some of those things in the settings menu could be more accessible, similar to how Spotify puts shuffle/repeat icons near the play button.

- I would really like the arrow keys to move back and forth between auto-pause points.

- Regarding auto-pause, it seems to clip off a little early, maybe consider extending the duration or adding a little bit of overlap?

- When clicking to define a word, "Define in Context" is a nice feature to have but is maybe a little slow (and possibly expensive on your end?) to have as a default. I think just opening a static dictionary lookup by default would be nice. With Japanese, I am able to work around this with the Yomitan browser extension though.

- I probably wouldn't use the spoken translation feature, but when I tried it, the voice sounded very robotic considering the high standards for AI-generated voices these days. Though I imagine a better voice might be a cost barrier.

Please don't take this as harsh criticism, just some initial impressions. Overall I really like the idea and will likely continue to use it for listening practice.