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Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a ... by tobymather123 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:15PM (#39192766)
Hi guys, just tried this as an intermediate Chinese learner. Really love it overall. I have an IRL tutor as well and it's very interesting to compare. Happy to give feedback offline but high-level so far: 1. Adding pinyin for Chinese words when clicking would be great, and adding 'word' rather than character-only clickable dictionary, e.g. from Pleco. That's a Chinese specific issue 2. Harder, but when I say something wrong, pause, and re-state, if it could fix my answer with what I said and delete the wrong bit that would be insanely cool. As that's what a teacher hears, the self-correcting is a good sign
Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a ... by Hadjimina on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:28PM (#39192954)
Pinyin is already accessible if you click on the gear icon in the top right and enable "pronunciations". When you make a mistake you can also have a look at it, read the suggestion and the "correct it" by clicking on the correction button and repeating the correct version of it. That will make the error disappear.

I guess both of these issues are too hidden right now.

Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a ... by tobymather123 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:10PM (#39193518)
They were but TIL! Will set that up
Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a ... by tobymather123 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:12PM (#39193538)
ah no sorry, I meant pinyin when you click the character, right now it's just a translation of that character. I don't want permanently visible pinyin of the line
Re:Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a ... by Hadjimina on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @02:39PM (#39194649)
Ahhh fair enough