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I've just tried it (japanese). May I suggest adding (optional) furigana for japanese? The problem with kanji is that you can't read a word you don't already kno
by Agingcoder 4y ago
I've just tried it (japanese).
May I suggest adding (optional) furigana for japanese? The problem with kanji is that you can't read a word you don't already know.
Edit: it seems like there's quite a bit of colloquial japanese, which is good (at least for me) . How did you build your corpus?
Edit(2): there are lots of bad single word translations (the underlined ones). They either change spontaneously between two fingerpresses, or are just plain wrong.
Also, I don't mean to be harsh, but I'm not sure what your app brings that duolingo and kitsun don't already do?
- klin16 4y agoI agree. The East Asian languages need work to offer different scripts for Japanese and pinyin for Mandarin Chinese. A volunteer sent me the sentence deck for these courses. The single word translations are also in beta and often incorrect for the East Asian languages, because 1) words aren't separated by spaces, and my word segmentation algorithm v1 is crude 2) the words are fed through to Google Translate api and not a dictionary. I hope to improve on these aspects in the future. I mainly tested the app out on the languages I'm studying (Spanish and Russian), and the popular European languages seem to work well based on my experience and user feedback. I made some quick adaptions to get languages like Japanese to work, but as you're seeing, there's a ways to go for those.
- Agingcoder 4y agoThanks for the explanation, things are now very clear. In any case, I've been using your app more than I expected to, so it's clearly good. I'm looking forward to future updates!