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Show HN: Text editor with inline English-German dictionary
Hi When you are learning a new language, you need to practice
different skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing. I find
writing to be the hardest activity, not least because I have to
look up words in the dictionary all the time, and that is a
frustrating context switch. Here is an experimental CodeMirror-
based editor, that lets you look up translations inline. Type @
followed by the English word, and get a list of possible
translations, and select the translation to apply it. Online demo:
https://foreign-dispatch-autocomplete.netlify.app/
Author : ichverstehe
Score : 11 points
Date : 2022-11-17 12:05 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| gumby wrote:
| Makes me wonder if you could reasonably write an LSP server for
| text and then plug it into your editor for on-the-fly
| autocomplete, translations etc?
| 97-109-107 wrote:
| This is very clever, I haven't seen such modal conventions for
| translation/substitution.
|
| I think it's quite original to have the starting point of "I'm
| almost good enough to write on my own" in stead of starting in
| the usual spot of full-auto translation pipe dream.
|
| I occasionally use deepl to write messages in languages which I'm
| rusty, but the-back-and-forth between editing my final output and
| selecting suggestions in not smooth.
| juujian wrote:
| Love that. I assume for learners an alternative mode would be
| great where it shows you the word but you still have to type it,
| just to build muscle memory.
| wklm wrote:
| great stuff, would love to have it as an outlook plugin
| agolio wrote:
| Super cool project!! I can really imagine this being helpful,
|
| I love alternative language learning tools, also keen on for
| e.g., Language Learning with Netflix which lets you see dual
| subtitles while watching netflix.
|
| I will drop my own (very naive, possibly incorrect) side project
| that I made while learning German myself, always happy for
| feedback! agol.io/trainer
| TurkishPoptart wrote:
| I love the reading and the explanations, it's all very clear,
| nice work! This trainer is cool, but maybe I'm too ignorant to
| understand the prompts. For example,
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| "Das Essen ... Frau"
|
| What case is it looking for? I assume it's nominative, but I
| don't know what the context is. But "die" is not accepted. Is
| it implied that "the food is eaten by the woman"?
| tmtvl wrote:
| Nominative? You want to say "the food the woman"? I don't
| really remember the Life of Brian skit, so I'll just skip
| ahead and say you may want the genetive case: "Das Essen der
| Frau," "the woman's food."
| agolio wrote:
| Ah yes, probably needs a bit more explanation there, I wanted
| to expand that tool with various features like tracking user
| performance for each case and repeating cases with a low-
| performance as well, but eventually moved on from the
| project.
|
| I perceive this kind of stuff to be a bit lacking in e.g.,
| Duolingo which is more focussed on phrases (and I found it to
| be a bit too repetitive with phrases you already know, while
| not being repetitive enough with things you are struggling
| with) which is what motivated the project in the first place.
|
| That particular example I intended the genitive case, so "das
| Essen der Frau" meaning the woman's food - but definitely
| need to make that more clear!
|
| Thanks for the feedback!
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