Looks cool! Unfortunately, the buttons are unresponsive on Firefox :/
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
41–50 of 189 posts
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#42Any timeline for other languages?
Would very much like to see Greek.
Alvast bedankt ;)
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#43I think one other point to consider in the content filtering: One of the first examples that was shown to me had in-video subtitles, which made the exercise too trivial, as the answers were essentially given away.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#44The English icon has the Union Jack flag rather than the US flag, so it automatically elevates the service above Duolingo for me.
That’s the problem with conflating nations and language.
For example, the very first English video I got was a South African English accent.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a bit unfortunate, sorry about that! I only checked English, French, Dutch and German and assumed that Spanish would be OK. Was this for drag & drop. And do you maybe have the video? Maybe I need to tune the quality threshold specifically for Spanish videos.
I actually did the same video on desktop and the same answers worked fine! Screenshots of it failing in an android webview, but passing on desktop firefox: https://imgur.com/a/vALlFdH .
Oh wow, I think this is a cross platform bug where I dumbly assumed that strings were equal without normalizing it. I'll fix it! Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#46This looks great! A humble request: a more button that I can press to sign up for an email when a language I seek gets added.
Second this request
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#47As a resident Duolingo apologist this is certainly awesome! I appreciate how little landing-page fluff there was before I could give it a shot. I tried Japanese and felt it was only reasonable in tandem with my in-built translation extension, since Kanji-reading knowledge itself is a major hurdle of learning. Furigana would really help this, but personally, being able to translate the words I pick helps a lot during…
Thank you! And great suggestions! I focussed first on European languages as I'm learning French. But I'll put some more effort in improving the Japanese experience since it seems to be very popular. > but if there's an intention for bookmarking languages of interest for separate collections of videos & transcription exercises I can say I'd be happy to pay, honestly. Would a language selection box at the top be enough…
For me, the main interest would be to switch the interface for one language to another in ideally 1-2 clicks; so if there was an interface element that captured the languages I was 'working on' that would be neat. Then I'd be happy to peruse the full list whenever curiosity spikes.
Otherwise, great work on a good use of existing technologies to provide meaningful educational benefit for yourself and others!
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#48I love having real sentences -- so much more engaging than the random things made up by Duolingo!
What are your long-term plans with this? I'd love at some point to be able to combine something like this with an algorithm I'm working on called Guided Immersion.
Basically, the system tracks what words you know and don't know, and so could tell you how hard a given sentence is for you. And it also tracks what words it would be useful to review and/or learn (spaced repetition and frequency analysis), to tell you how valuable a sentence would be for you.
The algorithm is generic and can be adapted to any language; right now it's been adapted to Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and New Testament Greek. (Which unfortunately so far doesn't seem to overlap with any of your available languages.) I'm working on an API to allow any content providers to use the algorithm.
Adding this to your system could help focus the content you're showing people to things that they're likely to be able to understand without having to look up most words, and helping them incrementally grow and solidify their vocabulary using the built-in spaced repetition.
Drop me a line if you want to chat at some point -- my email is in my about.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#49I wonder if this could be used as something like early recaptcha.
Have a machine do transcriptions and for the parts where it's not entirely sure just let users play the game and then accept what most users chose as the correct solution. Later on train your automatic transcriber on this.
Re: Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
#50Great stuff!
Small UX thing: Make it so you can just click a word to fill in the next empty spot, instead of having to drag, similar to when building sentences in Duolingo. Especially when not on a touchscreen, having to drag is pretty painful and reduces accessibility.