[HN Gopher] Show HN: Term Typer - Learn a Language by Typing
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Show HN: Term Typer - Learn a Language by Typing
Hey HN! I'm from Brazil and I created Term Typer to help my little
brother learn other languages while practicing his keyboard typing
skills. We've found it super helpful and fun. Feel free to try it
out and let me know your thoughts and feedback. Thanks a lot!
Author : jeanmayer
Score : 95 points
Date : 2024-04-16 15:27 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.termtyper.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.termtyper.com)
| david_allison wrote:
| I love everything about this, it's really clean! Doesn't support
| my L2s, so I won't use it long-term
|
| Constructive feedback:
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| * the 'typed' word should be discarded in a few cases if you
| change the L1/L2
|
| * No 'success' feedback after submitting my email for
| notifications
| jeanmayer wrote:
| thanks for the feedback, I'll update it soon
| alfonsodev wrote:
| Very nice! I think this could work for me, for the type of
| learner I am.
|
| As a feedback, would be nice to have a button to skip to the next
| word, and some sort of gamification as rounds of words to have a
| sense of progress.
|
| Could you consider adding Romanian language ? Multumesc!
| david_allison wrote:
| Their word list is open source:
| https://github.com/agencyenterprise/Term-Typer-Words
| jeanmayer wrote:
| I'll add romanian. Come back in about 2 hours and it will be
| there :D
| rovn wrote:
| It makes me remember the days when I learned coding. Instead of
| copy and paste, I tried to type the code in the editor. I was
| learning by doing, and I can remember all the mistakes I made.
| Thank you for your time and effort. Do you open your source code?
| metayrnc wrote:
| Looks like a great idea! It doesn't support languages I am
| interested in right now but I will be sure to go back and check
| it out again. One suggestion, for words that break a line, the
| effect of typing perfectly on the background disappears. It might
| be a hard problem to solve but if the word is going to be on the
| next line when written completely, it should be in the next line
| when I start typing.
| jeanmayer wrote:
| What languages? I can add it for you, as we have only 20 words
| for now
| croemer wrote:
| From the title I thought it was teaching programming languages -
| that would be a nice extension as well. Just type out some linux
| source code to learn C :)
| jeanmayer wrote:
| that's actually a great idea, will think about this and create
| something
| nmstoker wrote:
| Fantastic if you do, as it's a nice elegant yet simple design
| you've created.
|
| I totally thought it meant computer language too, but that's
| likely the context of viewing it here!
|
| Anyway, great job with this tool, whether or not you can add
| computer languages!
| myself248 wrote:
| Some years ago, I read a programing book, and it explained,
| paraphrasing:
|
| > There is no disc included with the book. All the code printed
| on the page will have to be typed in, by you. This is
| deliberate. Typing is sloppy, but programming is precise, and
| it is imperative that you develop attention to detail if you
| are to program successfully. The intent is that you develop
| increasing attention to detail along with the programs in the
| book, which are in order of increasing complexity.
| Rucadi wrote:
| This is super fun! Congrats!
| brandonhorst wrote:
| I wonder how well this approach would work with handwriting and
| Hanzi/Kanji. Don't focus too much on learning, just write the
| characters and learn the meanings over and over again.
| rickcarlino wrote:
| I've been building a somewhat similar Open Source voice based
| app. Please reach out if you ever want to talk or collaborate.
| https://koala.cards
| nokoanubis wrote:
| This is really cool. Clean and simple UI. I'll definitely be
| using this to help keep up my french lol
| jeanmayer wrote:
| thanks for the feedback! I'll keep adding more and more words
| :D
| cassepipe wrote:
| This is awesome. Especially since Duolingo mostly moved away from
| typing. Currently learning your language, this is going to be a
| great help. Obrigado.
| jeanmayer wrote:
| de nada! any other language you'd like to see in term typer?
| rebhan wrote:
| german
| markdeloura wrote:
| japanese!
| hugocast wrote:
| Really cool. Obrigado! I wish it had German. I signed up for
| notifications. Keep up the good work!
| bironran wrote:
| This looks really great, but I wish there was a setting for "SAT
| level English". That could've really helped me improve my own
| vocabulary. Also "used in a sentence" so I could actually type
| something in a sentence.
|
| And... maybe ignore typos, spaces, commas etc in the non main
| word? The main word is important for sure but the rest is less,
| just forces you to focus on what you're learning.
| SuperHeavy256 wrote:
| Can you add typing sound effects like typingclub.com has?
| windowshopping wrote:
| it's a good idea but in practice i'm find it really annoying. i
| typed out the full definition and it highlighted it red and won't
| say why. does it expect me to type the accent marks? :/ it's also
| weird that i have to hit enter instead of the line wrapping
| automatically.
| mactrey wrote:
| It does wrap automatically if you keep typing. I agree the user
| experience is not great with that, the word you're typing
| should always be directly over the guide text.
| brlewis wrote:
| This seems like a great idea, nicely implemented.
|
| Minor bug report: the pronunciation button pronounced Spanish
| "adaptar" as "ajaptar".
| janetmissed wrote:
| Very nice site, it looks and functions great. However,
| autocorrect still works for me on MacOS, unlike other typing
| practice sites. Maybe not that important, but it does somewhat
| diminish the typing practice you can get :)
| BHSPitMonkey wrote:
| It's pretty funny that the main failure mode I run into is
| unconsciously typing the translated version of a word rather than
| the foreign-language version my eyes are looking at (at least
| with all the similar-looking cognates). Cool idea!
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