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Re:Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-... by galen211 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:12PM (#14448587)
Second that - would also be interesting for English speakers learning a language like Chinese, where the average literate speaker can recognize about 5000 of the most frequently used characters.
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Re:Show HN: 100K sentences mined from Wikipedia to help non-... by peterburkimsher on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:33PM (#14450252)
galen - I'm making http://pingtype.github.io for learning Chinese! I don't think that studying characters is the most important thing though. Words are more important than individual characters! My program can help you type parts of a character, and put spaces between words automatically.
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