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Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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Post by j45 »

tayo42 wrote: post #63
hellcow wrote: post #57

I like the idea. I’m learning European Portuguese, so I added a video but unfortunately got an error that there were no subtitles. The subtitles for the video in question are auto-generated, so maybe that’s the reason? Would be great if I could use this for foreign language studies.

What exactly are you looking to do with YouTube and language? I might have a github repo you could be interested in. It takes YouTube videos, creates transcripts, translations and creates audio anki flash cards from it with audio on the front and text on the back

This would be interesting to try out if it's a public repo!`

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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Post by syncbehind »

mvkel wrote: post #93

Comparing this to duolingo is selling yourself short. Duolingo creates dopamine hits under the facade of learning a language (which you never do). With this, it's fun, and you can actually learn something.

> Duolingo creates dopamine hits under the facade of learning a language (which you never do).

If you're using duolingo as your only source for learning a language, yeah. It's a flashcard app when you get to brass tacks. You won't learn a language by only use flashcards.

As a supplemental tool, it's great.

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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Post by ListeningPie »

rollinDyno wrote: post #89
ListeningPie wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use to compile information and do you keep track of sources?

It depends on the question. I do not have a list of sources.

Do you trust the information even after forgetting the source and not having the context your wrote it in?

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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Post by kirill5pol »

mvkel wrote: post #93

Comparing this to duolingo is selling yourself short. Duolingo creates dopamine hits under the facade of learning a language (which you never do). With this, it's fun, and you can actually learn something.

That's the goal! :)

I think it's kind of similar with Plato, the value you get is going to be really correlated to the quality of videos you put in (I'm working on making the suggestions here be better quality right now too)

But I do think that there is still value to something like Duolingo, if it get's you to do at least a bit of learning over doom scrolling that's a good thing (even if it's much less effective than other methods). I think the problem comes up when something like Duolingo pretends to be better than it is and convinces people that otherwise WOULD be using the better techniques to learn, that's a bad thing, but if it's a replacement to nothing that's probably a net good

(also I actually did use Duolingo to learn German (B1-ish), and it helped as a starting point for vocab and simple grammar, I learned the most with friends and time in Germany but I don't think I would've been able to take advantage of that time without Duolingo... but your milage vary)

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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Post by kirill5pol »

syncbehind wrote: post #94
mvkel wrote: post #93

Comparing this to duolingo is selling yourself short. Duolingo creates dopamine hits under the facade of learning a language (which you never do). With this, it's fun, and you can actually learn something.

> Duolingo creates dopamine hits under the facade of learning a language (which you never do). If you're using duolingo as your only source for learning a language, yeah. It's a flashcard app when you get to brass tacks. You won't learn a language by only use flashcards. As a supplemental tool, it's great.

I think this is probably true for most things. Math, engineering, sciences; all need more than just memorization.

But some other topics it may be enough for purposes that you would want to use something like Plato for (history, etc)

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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Post by tayo42 »

j45 wrote: post #92
tayo42 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly are you looking to do with YouTube and language? I might have a github repo you could be interested in. It takes YouTube videos, creates transcripts, translations and creates audio anki flash cards from it with audio on the front and text on the back

This would be interesting to try out if it's a public repo!`

it is, ill send a link to your email in your profile
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