Re:Show HN: Maspeak, learn words in a foreign language
by ebellity on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:59AM
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Hi Nadya, thanks a lot for the feedback and taking the time to test and upload screenshots, I appreciate !
About your first comment (words you know not coming back often enough) I think it's because most of the datasets I've added are too large. For Hebrew (which is the language I'm trying to learn at the moment - and why I made this website in the first place) there are smaller libraries with 30-50 words and the experience is much better. One thing I can do in the future is add ways to select smaller subsets of a dataset of just a few dozen words and just "play" with those.
1. I agree, I just implemented that
2. I had not noticed that, thanks, will improve
3. Yeah that's a tough one. It works ok for some nouns and not great for some other words / prepositions / adjectives. I plan to build something on top of it where users can say if pictures are not relevant / not helping, or they can vote on good pictures, perhaps upload or create another mnemonic. Perhaps adding exemples of sentences in context could help as well.
4. Just fixed it!
About your first comment (words you know not coming back often enough) I think it's because most of the datasets I've added are too large. For Hebrew (which is the language I'm trying to learn at the moment - and why I made this website in the first place) there are smaller libraries with 30-50 words and the experience is much better. One thing I can do in the future is add ways to select smaller subsets of a dataset of just a few dozen words and just "play" with those.
1. I agree, I just implemented that 2. I had not noticed that, thanks, will improve 3. Yeah that's a tough one. It works ok for some nouns and not great for some other words / prepositions / adjectives. I plan to build something on top of it where users can say if pictures are not relevant / not helping, or they can vote on good pictures, perhaps upload or create another mnemonic. Perhaps adding exemples of sentences in context could help as well. 4. Just fixed it!