[HN Gopher] Show HN: Learn Spanish quickly while reading
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Show HN: Learn Spanish quickly while reading
Author : Phillip98798
Score : 29 points
Date : 2021-03-27 11:49 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (donquixote.fun)
(TXT) w3m dump (donquixote.fun)
| logikblok wrote:
| This is a great start. Obviously an MVP but perhaps you might
| want to consider highlighting the sequential changed word. For
| example: In a _lugar_ de La Mancha might be a nice add to
| emphasise the change and reinforce lugar = place etc?
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| Good idea
| napier wrote:
| This is really very promising and well executed. Any plans for
| additional texts and languages in the future?
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| I can see doing les mis for French and other seminal works of
| their respective languages. I guess I'll try and finish this
| one first.
| feiss wrote:
| This is great, amazing idea!
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| However, I don't understand why you chose don quixote. That's not
| modern, normal, everyday prose, it was written 400 years ago..
| any spanish kid would have trouble understanding it.
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| Any other modern (less than 100 years) and famous novel would be
| much adequate for learning spanish.
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| I agree it's not very prosaic. I guess it has marketing value
| being a notorious story. Hopefully I can wrap it up and do a
| more modern novel. Any suggestions?
| sammyo wrote:
| Really interesting approach. I've bookmarked the page. You should
| consider gathering emails to give updates.
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| This should be the new killer app for e-readers. That tech is
| generally closed with too low powered processors due to power
| requirements for it to be implemented in any current generation.
| But it is just right for this kind of reading/learning.
|
| Are you doing the translation?
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| Thanks, I used Google Translate at first. I have a family
| member that does it professionally so I may work with him going
| forward.
| knubie wrote:
| I'd like to check it out but on my phone the top and bottom of
| the pop up is cropped and I can't scroll or close it.
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| Thanks, will fix.
| whenlambo wrote:
| Cannot get past slide 19 on iOS Safari. "Next" button does
| nothing.
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| Thanks, yeah it's an MVP. Was trying to gauge interest before I
| complete the whole translation.
| freeatnet wrote:
| That's a pretty cool approach! Alas, the interface seems to have
| gotten stuck on step 9 for me.
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| Thanks, yeah. I wanted to see what HN thought before I took the
| time to finish it. Looks like I will.
| troydavis wrote:
| One more vote of support. I'm reading it now.
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| I've always wished that Kindle had this. One can buy a Kindle
| translation (and some popular books have communities around
| translations:
| https://tinwhiskers.net/post/harry_potter_spanish,
| https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/9229774/Harry-Potter-
| in-S...) as well as a translating dictionary, but one must
| find a book that's very close to the reader's level or
| reading will be impossibly slow (highlight word, click to
| translate, repeat). Your contextual translations and
| next/play button are way faster.
| lonesword wrote:
| Oh I'd definitely love to see this completed. I don't speak
| Spanish, so I'm not sure if this would be a problem here - are
| all sentences in Spanish guaranteed to have an almost one-one
| translation to English? In other words, what happens when the
| word order changes? This would be a huge deal in German.
| Phillip98798 wrote:
| Thanks, no the order differs in Spanish as well. That's why
| it's going to take me a while as I'm going over the Spanish and
| English translations and trying to make it work. I will try to
| honor the Spanish order more than the English, even if that
| makes the English sound weird. The idea is you know English, so
| it doesn't have to be very understandable on the English side.
| Just enough to give you the context.
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