Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages at once

Posted by adampzakaria on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @11:44AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi everyone - I'm not a serious language learner but I've been enjoying learning phrases I can use when I travel, at restaurants, around people in public, etc. Let me know if you find it useful or what might make it useful for you!

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Re:Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages... by adampzakaria on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @11:52AM (#42257518)

The translations and text to speech are from google APIs. One commenter on reddit suggested that GPT4o may be better. Also, a lot of commenters saying the phrasing and formality levels are poor on the current translations.

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Re:Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages... by jjallen on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:56AM (#42294933)

I got "translation failed" for all three languages for "how are you". Not a great sign/start.

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Re:Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages... by wiseowise on Monday December 02, 2024 @07:56AM (#42295718)

It failed on “World” for me.

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Re:Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages... by freilanzer on Monday December 02, 2024 @09:22AM (#42296497)

Same here.

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Re:Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages... by rantouan on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:34AM (#42295173)

voting up because I don't care if the API may be down, it's the idea that matters and the idea is good ! Keep working on it

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Re:Show HN: A program to learn phrases in multiple languages... by jjallen on Monday December 02, 2024 @08:07AM (#42295805)

Just FYI I do want to support this. Rather what I would support is being able to order physical flash cards with my selection of n<=~10 language of translations.

I think this would work better than this. I would totally pay for this tomorrow (not sure how much). Maybe $5 per language?

With this interface and it showing the translations to you it's not conducive to recall, which is the process by which we tell our brains to connect/build more neurons for this particular datum.

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