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Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by claylimo on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:39PM (#42772783)
Similar to LingQ there is Migaku which can do this for YouTube and other sites. It definitely has significantly aided my learning and made it a zero friction and even fun experience to learn another language.
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by arbayi on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:08PM (#42773073)
Thank you for sharing! Looking at their blog, I saw this post about learning Japanese vocabulary (https://migaku.com/blog/japanese/how-to-learn-japanese-vocab...). They share a Japanese Netflix Frequency List - (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15b3j9--RJ1K5hI9vz_2L...)

"To recognize 99% of all the words in Netflix's subtitles, you'd need to know 37,247 words"

Interesting approach! I really don't know how they managed to gather this list, but it's an interesting and clever method.

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by Alex-Programs on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:56PM (#42772946)
There's also https://nuenki.app (disclaimer: I made it), which applies the same approach to every single website*. It translates appropriate-difficulty sentences into your target language, and you can hover for definitions, pronunciations, etc.

*other than those blocked for privacy reasons

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by arbayi on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:13PM (#42773108)
I actually want to learn German, but I want to learn it by reading German texts and starting from zero, even though that makes it challenging. I need to look up definitions and such, but translating the entire page defeats the core purpose. This app in my case is just perfect match! Thank you for sharing!
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by Alex-Programs on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:22PM (#42773220)
Awesome! Let me know if you have any feedback!
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by dpig_ on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:22PM (#42785837)
Any plans to add Hindi, being the third-most spoken language in the world?
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by Alex-Programs on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:16AM (#42793693)
Sure, I'll add it. It isn't supported by DeepL, so it'd have higher latency (alongside a few other languages that are Claude-only).

I can contact you when it's added, if you like - perhaps you could email alex (at) nuenki.app?

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by dpig_ on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:37PM (#42800030)
That would be awesome, cheers.
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by Alex-Programs on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:16AM (#42811887)
I've added it.

https://nuenki.app :)

Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by dpig_ on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:52PM (#42837546)
Love your work! Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by davidzweig on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:11PM (#42773696)
I'll drop this here: If anyone wants to work on Language Reactor (well compensated), my email is in my profile. I'm planning to start open-sourcing much of it soon.
Re:Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (Kind of) for Vocabulary B... by rapidpolyglot on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:05AM (#42803199)
You should try Lingopie.com, Its like the Netflix of Lanuguage learning. It's way more developed & Polished than Migaku or Language Reactor ... Migaku is only a chrome extension and Lingopie has thousands of TV shows and movies & also works with Netflix & Disney plus. Plus it has tons of language learning features and tools that Migaku has. You can also watch and learn on iOS & Android plus on your TV with their Smart TV apps.