Wow, this is nice. I've had a thing like this (well, for German) in my mind for years but knew I'd never create it. Thanks!
Ereader Easy Swedish
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#22I found this very useful for learning second language: https://immersivetranslate.com/ Daily news is better resource than books IMHO. I have no vested interest here. The thing is, since it's not open source, I'm a bit worried about data privacy, especially because the plugin can see everything I browse.
It looks great, but I wish these would be more flexible. I'm going to have an extension, I'd prefer one that doesn't do only full translations.
I'd love a similar one to this that'd give you an "make this easier" button that'd start by providing a vocabulary for the paragraph, simplifying the language, or interjecting explanations in simple language, move to replacing words with English translations, and only as a last resort to a full translation.
With current LLMs it ought to be relatively easy to offer a UI with an "stepwise easier" option and just a handful of prompts to direct the "translation" result complexity accordingly...
Re: Ereader Easy Swedish
#23I found this very useful for learning second language: https://immersivetranslate.com/ Daily news is better resource than books IMHO. I have no vested interest here. The thing is, since it's not open source, I'm a bit worried about data privacy, especially because the plugin can see everything I browse.
I think the idea is to use a book that you have already read in your language, maybe even multiple time (favourite book). This way your mind already has all the associations stored in your brain for easy access, and you just need to link it to the foreign concepts. Supposed to be a great way to learn new languages after you know the basic grammar and such.
Parallel texts work quite well without having read it before too if you keep the original next to you. I lifted by German up a whole grade my last year, largely by reading Goethe's Faust in parallel with a translation.
Having an easy version is a big boon, though, and I think LLMs now provide an amazing opportunity to create custom proper parallel texts (showing both) where you could adjust the difficulty level of the translation to suit your current skill level.
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#24Is there something similar in French? Preferably from French/English to simplified French?
But English is simplified French ;)
With apologies to Dumas ("L’anglais n’est que du français mal prononcé" - "English is little more than badly pronounced French" - spoken by D'Artagnan in Twenty Years After)
The "quick and dirty" solution would be to cut and paste into Claude or ChatGPT, probably in sections to prevent it from going too far off piste/forget what it's meant to be doing, with a suitable prompt.
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#25I tried to figure out if the translation is correct (the concept of a "studio apartment" in English is not easy to express in Swedish, and "ateljé" is certainly not it).
I even found this [1] comment on Reddit, detailing the exact same concern. Perhaps worth looking into?
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Svenska/comments/1j4teje/comment/mg...
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#26Is there something similar in French? Preferably from French/English to simplified French?
This looks so cool, I am thinking of building something like this for French.
I am currently planning to take my B1 and it has been super hard.
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#27This is super cool, I might fork this and change the prompt to Danish, and maybe use MIstral or DeepSeek as it has better Danish capabilities. I moved to Denmark and just passed my A1 exam, so looking for more easy stuff to do. DR.dk has `ligetil` which is simplified/easy danish news. So if I can find similar, I use it. I can probably have LLM do easy for me. Also Noospeak for daily newsletter in Danish. LLM has been…
Ooh, those simplified news sites/newsletters sound great, I'll have to see if I can find something similar for Norwegian!
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#28This is super cool, I might fork this and change the prompt to Danish, and maybe use MIstral or DeepSeek as it has better Danish capabilities. I moved to Denmark and just passed my A1 exam, so looking for more easy stuff to do. DR.dk has `ligetil` which is simplified/easy danish news. So if I can find similar, I use it. I can probably have LLM do easy for me. Also Noospeak for daily newsletter in Danish. LLM has been…
Ooh, those simplified news sites/newsletters sound great, I'll have to see if I can find something similar for Norwegian!
Sweden has 'lätt svenska' (easy Swedish) radio and TV news
- https://www.svtplay.se/nyheter-pa-latt-svenska
- https://www.sverigesradio.se/radioswedenpalattsvenska
pretty useful for learning indeed!
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#29This is super cool, I might fork this and change the prompt to Danish, and maybe use MIstral or DeepSeek as it has better Danish capabilities. I moved to Denmark and just passed my A1 exam, so looking for more easy stuff to do. DR.dk has `ligetil` which is simplified/easy danish news. So if I can find similar, I use it. I can probably have LLM do easy for me. Also Noospeak for daily newsletter in Danish. LLM has been…
Ooh, those simplified news sites/newsletters sound great, I'll have to see if I can find something similar for Norwegian!
Noospeak.com has Norwegian. It is the one I use.
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#30I'm also learning Swedish, will definitely give this a try. I've built https://github.com/bjesus/swe as a quick CLI dictionary that also helps with pronunciation and tenses.