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Show HN: Crowdsourced Language Learning Site

54 points by graylien 8y ago

graylien 8y ago
Hi everyone, I'm working on a crowdsource language learning project. We started by gathering resources like podcasts, apps and websites, but are also aiming to map out all the different language schools in each country to make them more discoverable. Check out the spreadsheet here to add your suggestions. There's a tab just for language schools too: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXLjoDbXvl_IKeBwWdwIHnux4E311CQNFZTpS9N6jfI/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXLjoDbXvl_IKeBwWdwI... Cheers!
- yorwba 8y ago
  Scrolling through https://littlelingua.eu/resources https://littlelingua.eu/resources , I noticed a few blank entries. You should probably fix those. Also, I nominate https://tatoeba.org https://tatoeba.org . It's a great source of example sentences and many apps make use of their data. If someone wants to contribute to the corpus, remember to only translate into your native language. Many people overestimate their second-language skills and write awkward sentences that waste other's time correcting them.
  - graylien 8y ago
    Yeah some of the entries need updating as it's crowdsourced, they're all from the spreadsheet so there must be a few duds in there. Thanks for the suggestion of tatoeba too, that's excellent!
- natmaka 8y ago
  A way for the visitor to specify which type of ability he seeks (being able to write, to read, or only to speak) would be useful.
  - graylien 8y ago
    Great idea! I always found apps like duolingo are great for reading, but not ideal to learn how to speak. I can probably add a new category for this and have it as a new filter.
mahesh_rm 8y ago
I run a side project in the language learning space, and I received this email below a few days ago: === Hi XXX team, We've had some interest about advertising on our homepage ahead of our Product Hunt launch on Friday and we thought we'd open up the opportunity to everybody. Have a look at the site and let us know if you're interested in any available space. littlelingua.eu Best, XXX XXX === I find this practice horrible.
- graylien 8y ago
  Hey, to clear things up we weren't looking for money as we have no stats or anything. We were only looking to feature decent products, and it's nice to work with people we are featuring. Thanks for the feedback though! Now we are crowdsourced and anybody can submit resources.
- drieddust 8y ago
  What is your objection? I am curious to know.
- franciscop 8y ago
  Every time one of my OSS projects gets in the front page of HN I get the same obnoxious email from "betalist" or "betapage" or something like that about getting my "startup" promoted. I just mark them as spam everytime, hopefully Gmail starts catching up at some point.
ziont 8y ago
so I thought this page was some elaborate crowdforce powered learning language site but saddened to discover it's just a clever clickbait with affiliate links to existing commercial and free websites. I recommend these websites. https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/ https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/ https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/ https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/ https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/ https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/ https://www.thegermanproject.com/ https://www.thegermanproject.com/
- graylien 8y ago
  There are no affiliate links at all. These are great recommendations, thanks for contributing! Also, we have the spreadsheets open for anyone to edit and contribute - this is what is meant by crowdsourced.
  - ziont 8y ago
    these are all pay sites http://www.clickonfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua http://www.clickonfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.talkinfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.talkinfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua
    - graylien 8y ago
      You can filter between paid and free. And of course, there are paid sites - if they were not paid, they probably wouldn't exist.
      - ziont 8y ago
        > There are no affiliate links at all. So this is false. > These are great recommendations Those were already on your website.
        graylien 8y ago
        What qualifies as an affiliate link ? To me it is a link that you get from an affiliate scheme to make money from selling their product. We don’t have any of them. Okay good that the links are already in the site - you can’t expect me to remember every link from the top of my head
LisaDziuba 8y ago
neat!
- graylien 8y ago
  :D thanks !
seveneightn9ne 8y ago
There are a couple of features I feel are missing. 1) ability to filter by beginner/intermediate/advanced resources. 2) ability to rate & review resources and then sort by popularity/rating. As it is I see a ton of resources for my target language, with no way to choose between them. Nice work overall, this seems like a really useful idea especially for less popular languages!
- graylien 8y ago
  Hi, thanks for your feedback. Rate and review is something we also identified as a top feature to add. Filtering by ability is also needed. This is our first version, so these are in the pipeline.
somada141 8y ago
I was surprised that I didn't see Memrise (https://www.memrise.com/ https://www.memrise.com/) in the lists. I've switched to Duolingo myself in the past year but there are a lot of crowdsources resources there for heaps of languages.

54 points by graylien 8y ago

Hi everyone, I'm working on a crowdsource language learning project. We started by gathering resources like podcasts, apps and websites, but are also aiming to map out all the different language schools in each country to make them more discoverable. Check out the spreadsheet here to add your suggestions. There's a tab just for language schools too: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXLjoDbXvl_IKeBwWdwIHnux4E311CQNFZTpS9N6jfI/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXLjoDbXvl_IKeBwWdwI... Cheers!

yorwba 8y ago
Scrolling through https://littlelingua.eu/resources https://littlelingua.eu/resources , I noticed a few blank entries. You should probably fix those. Also, I nominate https://tatoeba.org https://tatoeba.org . It's a great source of example sentences and many apps make use of their data. If someone wants to contribute to the corpus, remember to only translate into your native language. Many people overestimate their second-language skills and write awkward sentences that waste other's time correcting them.
- graylien 8y ago
  Yeah some of the entries need updating as it's crowdsourced, they're all from the spreadsheet so there must be a few duds in there. Thanks for the suggestion of tatoeba too, that's excellent!
natmaka 8y ago
A way for the visitor to specify which type of ability he seeks (being able to write, to read, or only to speak) would be useful.
- graylien 8y ago
  Great idea! I always found apps like duolingo are great for reading, but not ideal to learn how to speak. I can probably add a new category for this and have it as a new filter.

mahesh_rm 8y ago

I run a side project in the language learning space, and I received this email below a few days ago: === Hi XXX team, We've had some interest about advertising on our homepage ahead of our Product Hunt launch on Friday and we thought we'd open up the opportunity to everybody. Have a look at the site and let us know if you're interested in any available space. littlelingua.eu Best, XXX XXX === I find this practice horrible.

graylien 8y ago
Hey, to clear things up we weren't looking for money as we have no stats or anything. We were only looking to feature decent products, and it's nice to work with people we are featuring. Thanks for the feedback though! Now we are crowdsourced and anybody can submit resources.
drieddust 8y ago
What is your objection? I am curious to know.
franciscop 8y ago
Every time one of my OSS projects gets in the front page of HN I get the same obnoxious email from "betalist" or "betapage" or something like that about getting my "startup" promoted. I just mark them as spam everytime, hopefully Gmail starts catching up at some point.

ziont 8y ago

so I thought this page was some elaborate crowdforce powered learning language site but saddened to discover it's just a clever clickbait with affiliate links to existing commercial and free websites. I recommend these websites. https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/ https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/ https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/ https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/ https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/ https://www.theitalianexperiment.com/ https://www.thegermanproject.com/ https://www.thegermanproject.com/

graylien 8y ago
There are no affiliate links at all. These are great recommendations, thanks for contributing! Also, we have the spreadsheets open for anyone to edit and contribute - this is what is meant by crowdsourced.
- ziont 8y ago
  these are all pay sites http://www.clickonfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua http://www.clickonfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.talkinfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.talkinfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?ref=littlelingua
  - graylien 8y ago
    You can filter between paid and free. And of course, there are paid sites - if they were not paid, they probably wouldn't exist.
    - ziont 8y ago
      > There are no affiliate links at all. So this is false. > These are great recommendations Those were already on your website.
      - graylien 8y ago
        What qualifies as an affiliate link ? To me it is a link that you get from an affiliate scheme to make money from selling their product. We don’t have any of them. Okay good that the links are already in the site - you can’t expect me to remember every link from the top of my head

LisaDziuba 8y ago

neat!

graylien 8y ago
:D thanks !

seveneightn9ne 8y ago

There are a couple of features I feel are missing. 1) ability to filter by beginner/intermediate/advanced resources. 2) ability to rate & review resources and then sort by popularity/rating. As it is I see a ton of resources for my target language, with no way to choose between them. Nice work overall, this seems like a really useful idea especially for less popular languages!

graylien 8y ago
Hi, thanks for your feedback. Rate and review is something we also identified as a top feature to add. Filtering by ability is also needed. This is our first version, so these are in the pipeline.

somada141 8y ago

I was surprised that I didn't see Memrise (https://www.memrise.com/ https://www.memrise.com/) in the lists. I've switched to Duolingo myself in the past year but there are a lot of crowdsources resources there for heaps of languages.