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As someone who is learning Spanish at the moment, here is some feedback. - I think a single click is sufficient to choose the correct answer and submit it; alt

As someone who is learning Spanish at the moment, here is some feedback. - I think a single click is sufficient to choose the correct answer and submit it; alternatively let me double click to choose and submit. - I don't think a "Continue" step is necessary - Without selecting an answer and pressing Back on the browser, the UI freaks out for a moment (Firefox 72.0.2) - I love cheatsheets, so having a section for these would be awesome (finding good, consistent cheatsheets on the web is hard) It is understandably a little sparse at the moment. Take a look at an app called Memrise - I think the style of its exercises would fit well here. I particularly like the "Fast Review" exercise which lets me do a speed review of all the words and phrases I have learned so far. As others have mentioned already, it would be nice to be able to mark words you already know and stop them from showing. Additionally, being able to mark words you find difficult could appear more frequently. I will keep an eye on this project; good work so far!

melling 7y ago
I built a cheatsheet for my iOS language app for Spanish: http://h4labs.org/100-words-app-spanish-pdf/ http://h4labs.org/100-words-app-spanish-pdf/ I’ve also created some Spanish Word Search PDF’s. Most are on Github: https://github.com/melling/Sopa_de_Letras https://github.com/melling/Sopa_de_Letras I was going to create a little book of 20 Spanish Word Search puzzles. What’s your idea for Spanish Language cheatsheets? I’ve tossed around a few ideas myself. Verbs, ser/estar, por/para, saber/conocer
- petargyurov 7y ago
  I find grammar cheatsheets quite useful, for example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0c/b6/81/0cb681ce3173c647a39b12db88344207.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0c/b6/81/0cb681ce3173c647a39b12db8... Anything that explains grammatical rules and gives me a "template" of sorts is great because it doesn't give me the answer straight away but it engages my brain to adapt the word I want to the given rule. Topics like tenses, conjugation, pronouns are what I like having cheatsheets for.
_def 7y ago
I agree with your points, controlling the app entirely with the keyboard seems pretty nice though
ravenstine 7y ago
> I love cheatsheets, so having a section for these would be awesome (finding good, consistent cheatsheets on the web is hard) Curious, do you mean for just languages, or in general? I was recently thinking that a site with user-uploaded cheat sheets for all sorts of subjects would be pretty rad.
- petargyurov 7y ago
  Neat idea! I mostly like them for languages (spoken, not programming) but I can see it being great for programming languages too. I guess there are loads of topics that could fit into this. Do you envision that your site will enforce a particular layout(s) and style for the cheatsheets? Or will it just be more of a catalogue?
  - ravenstine 7y ago
    Enforcing a style/layouts is an interesting idea. Having that kind of consistency could be a good thing. Maybe having composable templates and a style guide would work. I was thinking that it could be a catalogue with broad categories that would allow people to surf through for cheat sheets they might want to read, but there would also be room for more esoteric subjects. For example, this cheat sheet on yeast for fermentation that I have bookmarked deserves a better format: https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/comments/b1hu1h/my_general_yeast_cheatsheet_long_kinda_sciencey/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/comments/b1hu1h/my_genera... Also, it'd be cool if it could be a platform where people can sell their cheat sheets. People could post free ones, too, and would be encouraged to do so because it'd be made easy for them to make an awesome infographic-y cheat sheet, but being able to make some money would incentivize quality too.
markosaric 7y ago
Just tried it and love the idea. Agree with the comments here. Single click without needing to "submit" the answer is more than enough and then skip the "continue" step for correct answers. This would make it so much smoother and faster to use.

melling 7y ago

I built a cheatsheet for my iOS language app for Spanish: http://h4labs.org/100-words-app-spanish-pdf/ http://h4labs.org/100-words-app-spanish-pdf/ I’ve also created some Spanish Word Search PDF’s. Most are on Github: https://github.com/melling/Sopa_de_Letras https://github.com/melling/Sopa_de_Letras I was going to create a little book of 20 Spanish Word Search puzzles. What’s your idea for Spanish Language cheatsheets? I’ve tossed around a few ideas myself. Verbs, ser/estar, por/para, saber/conocer

petargyurov 7y ago
I find grammar cheatsheets quite useful, for example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0c/b6/81/0cb681ce3173c647a39b12db88344207.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/0c/b6/81/0cb681ce3173c647a39b12db8... Anything that explains grammatical rules and gives me a "template" of sorts is great because it doesn't give me the answer straight away but it engages my brain to adapt the word I want to the given rule. Topics like tenses, conjugation, pronouns are what I like having cheatsheets for.

_def 7y ago

I agree with your points, controlling the app entirely with the keyboard seems pretty nice though

ravenstine 7y ago

> I love cheatsheets, so having a section for these would be awesome (finding good, consistent cheatsheets on the web is hard) Curious, do you mean for just languages, or in general? I was recently thinking that a site with user-uploaded cheat sheets for all sorts of subjects would be pretty rad.

petargyurov 7y ago
Neat idea! I mostly like them for languages (spoken, not programming) but I can see it being great for programming languages too. I guess there are loads of topics that could fit into this. Do you envision that your site will enforce a particular layout(s) and style for the cheatsheets? Or will it just be more of a catalogue?
- ravenstine 7y ago
  Enforcing a style/layouts is an interesting idea. Having that kind of consistency could be a good thing. Maybe having composable templates and a style guide would work. I was thinking that it could be a catalogue with broad categories that would allow people to surf through for cheat sheets they might want to read, but there would also be room for more esoteric subjects. For example, this cheat sheet on yeast for fermentation that I have bookmarked deserves a better format: https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/comments/b1hu1h/my_general_yeast_cheatsheet_long_kinda_sciencey/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/comments/b1hu1h/my_genera... Also, it'd be cool if it could be a platform where people can sell their cheat sheets. People could post free ones, too, and would be encouraged to do so because it'd be made easy for them to make an awesome infographic-y cheat sheet, but being able to make some money would incentivize quality too.

markosaric 7y ago

Just tried it and love the idea. Agree with the comments here. Single click without needing to "submit" the answer is more than enough and then skip the "continue" step for correct answers. This would make it so much smoother and faster to use.