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Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages at once

by adampzakaria on 11/27/24, 4:44 PM with 6 comments

Hi everyone - I'm not a serious language learner but I've been enjoying learning phrases I can use when I travel, at restaurants, around people in public, etc. Let me know if you find it useful or what might make it useful for you!
  • by jjallen on 12/2/24, 10:56 AM

    I got "translation failed" for all three languages for "how are you". Not a great sign/start.
  • by adampzakaria on 11/27/24, 4:52 PM

    The translations and text to speech are from google APIs. One commenter on reddit suggested that GPT4o may be better. Also, a lot of commenters saying the phrasing and formality levels are poor on the current translations.
  • by jjallen on 12/2/24, 1:07 PM

    Just FYI I do want to support this. Rather what I would support is being able to order physical flash cards with my selection of n<=~10 language of translations.

    I think this would work better than this. I would totally pay for this tomorrow (not sure how much). Maybe $5 per language?

    With this interface and it showing the translations to you it's not conducive to recall, which is the process by which we tell our brains to connect/build more neurons for this particular datum.

  • by rantouan on 12/2/24, 11:34 AM

    voting up because I don't care if the API may be down, it's the idea that matters and the idea is good ! Keep working on it