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> One problem that comes up [...] I agree that many language learners end up in the intermediate plateau, so there's a clear problem. But, how do you know that
by akprasad 4y ago
> One problem that comes up [...]
I agree that many language learners end up in the intermediate plateau, so there's a clear problem. But, how do you know that Parsnip is a solution these people want?
> [...] by finding and tracking your learning of all those words and automating the work of looking up, practicing and recording those words.
On a tech note, I'm curious what you think of lingq.com, which seems quite adjacent to what you describe here.
- solarmist 4y agoAgain mostly personal experience and direct feedback from people saying that keeping track of vocabulary is hard. Lingq was an early inspiration, but it has many limitations (for example, it has trouble tracking word conjugations, let alone kanji in languages like Japanese) and relies almost exclusively on manual volunteer work. It provides very little leverage to users. For a purely leverage-based answer, Parsnip will save hundreds of hours of manual work per user purely by automating manual things like creating fill-in-the-blank exercises, vocabulary tracking and dictionary lookups (a conservative estimate is 70+ hours for this alone).