[HN Gopher] Show HN: Learn a new language while you browse the web
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Show HN: Learn a new language while you browse the web
Author : araghougassian
Score : 12 points
Date : 2021-06-10 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.fluent.co)
| eps wrote:
| Excellent idea, massive privacy concerns. I basically have no way
| of ensuring that your plugin won't leak my browsing history to
| you, intentionally or not.
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| There needs to be a completely offline version of it and _that_
| will be a killer. Even if it 's a paid one.
| vuldin wrote:
| Looks awesome! But site doesn't work well in Firefox nor on
| mobile.
| becausecurious wrote:
| This looks exactly like https://jointoucan.com/. I struggle to
| see any difference. Really surprised that you have 9000 users
| already. Perhaps I miss some important difference from Toucan?
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| Funnily enough I also never heard about Toucan before. I made
| https://vocabboost.online/ (which uses a similar idea, but for
| making languate tests out of webpages) and only then users told
| me that it was similar to Toucan.
| ibdf wrote:
| I can't evaluate it... I don't use chrome anymore and I'm
| learning Italian, which is not available right now. It seems like
| a nice idea to have something like an intuitive, super charged
| dictionary whenever I'm browsing ... but I would argue that when
| not at work, a lot of people use their phone to browse the
| internet rather than their PC.
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| My tactic so far, to force myself to learn, is to change the
| system settings to the desired language, which in turn makes a
| lot of the apps and websites default to that language. It's a
| pain to look up words all the time but on my phone I keep the
| reverso context app and the Google translator always at hand. On
| my laptop I just Google it.
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