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The books you're offering up have a ridiculously difficult readability. How do you plan to change that? What languages will you target first and why? I'm quad
by kumarski 11y ago
The books you're offering up have a ridiculously difficult readability. How do you plan to change that?
What languages will you target first and why?
I'm quadralingual as well and blog about language stuff once a year or so. Holler at me if you want poignant feedback. I've been published on lifehacker and other sites for my language learning tips.
- mstipetic 11y agoHey, thanks for the feedback! We've been so far working with books that already had some translation metadata which we could use, but just recently we got a tool working which does it automatically. It's still a work in progress, but we managed to put a new book out, Siddartha by Herman Hesse in English-German combination. We're gonna concentrate on English-German combination first, since we're in Berlin now, and can calibrate the matching tool ourselves, but adding new books in new languages should more or less become trivial soon. We have a lot of features in the works, one of them being providing and recommending books with different levels of difficulty. Any help or feedback would be very welcome, you can always reach us at contact@paralleltext.io
- kumarski 11y agoI highly recommend using popular short stories. Books are far too long. Short stories give the user a sense of success. Even just covering news articles would be pretty solid. :) Current events provide a lot of context.
- mstipetic 11y agoThanks! We might look into short stories also. News articles might be interesting also, but sourcing multilingual new articles might be a problem. In any case, we have a lot of work in front of us :)