[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfrien...
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       Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend - works with
       any language
        
       I'm in my 4th year living in Denmark as an expat, and I finally
       decided it's time to properly learn Danish. I do have a Danish
       girlfriend, after all. One way I've been practicing is by trying to
       text only in Danish, but I often find myself stuck. I start my
       message in Danish, then hit a wall because I don't know a word or
       how to fit something naturally into the sentence.  Especially in
       those cases, I used to give up and translate the entire message
       from English, which kind of defeats the purpose and interrupts the
       learning process.  So I started prompting GPT. I'd write my message
       with wildcards or notes for the parts I didn't know, and it would
       return a corrected version. That worked well, but reusing the
       prompt each time became tedious.  So I built a wrapper around it.
       Now I can type in the target language, mark unclear parts with
       curly braces {like this}, and get an instant corrected version with
       explanations. I also added a history feature so I can review what I
       got wrong, and I plan to build more on that soon (eg. summary of
       areas or words to review).  This app is for language learners who
       want to practice writing without feeling insecure about mistakes or
       breaking their flow by switching to a translator.  I hope you find
       it useful!
        
       Author : lil_csom
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-07-13 11:38 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (menerdu.vercel.app)
 (TXT) w3m dump (menerdu.vercel.app)
        
       | lil_csom wrote:
       | Also, yes the TTS doesn't work yet - I decided to share the MVP
       | first before adding my Google billing account :P
        
       | Aro_oj wrote:
       | First of all, 10 points for the dedication and perseverance! The
       | website looks super professional and promising. What other
       | languages can it help with? I am planning to learn Arabic. Also,
       | are there options to choose between different dialects of a
       | language?
        
         | lil_csom wrote:
         | Hey! It should work with all the languages as it auto-detect
         | the target and the source language - however, it might need to
         | be tuned the bit. Eg. if you write in arabic but use English
         | wildcards, it should work okay! About the dialects actually I
         | haven't thought of! I think you can provide it as context,
         | however it's probably limited to what GPT knows as I don't
         | integrate with any official trasnlators as of now :)
         | Interesting use-case!
        
       | Alex-Programs wrote:
       | This is really cool!
       | 
       | I've done a lot of research into LLM translation for my
       | product[0], and I'm currently working on a deep translation
       | service that provides reliably human-level translations.
       | 
       | I don't know what model you're using, but GPT-4.1 is probably the
       | best for your use case - it's in the top few % for nearly every
       | language, and has a low standard deviation, while also being
       | relatively low latency and low cost.
       | 
       | [0] https://nuenki.app
        
       | sunbum wrote:
       | In the example text hjelmpe is not a word in Danish.
        
       | jmpavlec wrote:
       | Tried it with some Dutch, only getting "Unable to process
       | correction" errors. Good idea but seems it need a bit more error
       | handling.
        
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