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Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by markvdb on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:39PM (#42771663)
Thank you for your contribution to the FOSS learning space.

Here's a few random suggestions: - spaced repetition. Again, anki style. - audio. Can you make it easy to record a phrase, anki style? Or maybe even make AI pronounce them correctly?

I would something like that.

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by arbayi on Monday January 20, 2025 @02:28PM (#42772142)
Thank you so much! I will definitely add those ideas to the roadmap in the README (pointing out this comment).

I believe the spaced repetition feature must be prioritized because that's the most important thing in this app. I mean, what's the purpose of seeing the words over and over again if I already have confidence with them?

For the pronunciation feature, I had similar work before and there are great open source tools and libraries we can build upon that analyze your pronunciation and spot where you made mistakes. We can use open source TTS libraries to pronounce the correct version.

I also would definitely want to see audio questions in exercises similar to Duolingo, and it would be great to work on those features.

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by learning-tr on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:48PM (#42774041)
I am learning Turkish so I built something like that for me. You can highlight any word online and it will translate colloquially so you can actually use it irl.

It also has audio and pronunciation. It is around the halfway mark in the demo.

demo: https://imgur.com/a/full-demo-so-far-O2fzBJn

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by arbayi on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:21PM (#42785828)
Harika görünüyor! Are you planning to share it open source?

Not: Bu benim en sevdiğim şarkılardan biridir!! (it's one my fav songs)

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by learning-tr on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:58AM (#42793490)
Teşekkür ederim! Evet, inş.(Thanks. Yes I will opensource it.)

Ben de aşık ya! (Mine too!)