LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

Re:LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to... by barrell on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:30PM (#38915284)

I’d be curious to hear what niceties you feel LingQ has that it’s missing if you don’t mind sharing

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Re:LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to... by bunderbunder on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:27PM (#38916822)

Easy importing of lessons from YouTube and Netflix, the built-in libraries of lessons, guidance on what content might be most appropriate to your current level based on known vocabulary, the mobile apps with playlists and audio player, things like that.

(Disclaimer: I haven't actually used LinguaCafe, but am a longtime LingQ user, so I'm not really making a fair comparison. I know LingQ's feature set much, much better.)

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Re:LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to... by tenaf0 on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:11PM (#38915817)

Last time I checked, it couldn’t handle expressions that are not just tokens one after the other. For example, German separable verbs. I tried fixing it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915786

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Re:LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to... by tenaf0 on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:16PM (#38917502)

(Misunderstood the question, please ignore my above comment)

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Re:LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to... by gstamp on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:31PM (#38921516)

Importing audio along with the text is a big one. Failing that some sort of TTS would be very useful.

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