Show HN: Deckmill – affordable, high quality, language-learning flashcards

Re:Show HN: Deckmill – affordable, high quality, language-le... by davidg109 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:31PM (#25679148)

Looks good.

Why these particular words/sentences? Is this based on frequency? Something else?

I was trying to learn Spanish based off of frequency dictionaries at one point, but many didn’t provide conjugations of the verbs which made it questionable to learn.

I was even contemplating creating something myself that would take the top 5000 words and make complete sentences out of them... using conjugations of course.

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Re:Show HN: Deckmill – affordable, high quality, language-le... by amelo on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:03PM (#25679471)

Hi David, thank you!

Indeed, using frequency alone will lead to a suboptimal set of sentences. Our approach was to choose sentences that increase smoothly in complexity, where we estimate complexity through a combination of criteria: frequency of vocab, tenses, number of clauses, etc.

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Re:Show HN: Deckmill – affordable, high quality, language-le... by davidg109 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:29PM (#25704386)

Just purchased. Excellent quality!

I wasn’t sure how many sentences were included but bought anyway (you might want to add this to the FAQ unless somehow I missed it elsewhere). Seems to be about 2000 sentences per deck. Learning Spanish so this gives me access to 6000 sentences.

Well done!

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Re:Show HN: Deckmill – affordable, high quality, language-le... by ngokevin on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:00PM (#25679962)

That’s interesting to use ML to build the levels!

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