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BoldVoice looks cool, are you planning other languages? Personally I'm learning Mandarin.

David_Axelrod 3y ago
Software Engineer at Boldvoice here, also learning Mandarin. I've been told my Chinese accent is awful due in large part to misuse of tones and overemphasizing articles like 了. We'd love to build something for all languages but are focusing on just users learning english right now.
- skykooler 3y ago
  Also interested if you ever expand to Mandarin!
anadalakra 3y ago
Thanks! For now, we're laser-focused on English since it's the language that 1 billion people are learning (as non-native speakers). But we'd love to add more languages in the future, stay tuned!
throwaway447 3y ago
https://www.viki.com/categories/country/mainland-china/genre/all https://www.viki.com/categories/country/mainland-china/genre...
- modeless 3y ago
  Haha there's one about a "genius programmer", maybe not a terrible idea for listening practice.
  - throwaway447 3y ago
    Dude, I am not sure you will still read this. Viki has changed: https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/17924295071251-Sunsetting-of-Learn-Mode-Feature https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/17924295071251-Su... What a clusterfuck. This may be a better option now: https://www.iq.com/ https://www.iq.com/
    - modeless 3y ago
      Oh bummer, what was it like?
      - throwaway447 3y ago
        Difficult to explain. As far as I remember it always showed the CN subtitles and you could with your mouse always see the translation and the meaning of the single characters. viki and iq are around 5 USD a months so it could still be worth it. This plug in is supposed to work well with Netflix: https://www.languagereactor.com/ https://www.languagereactor.com/ Netflix is 12 USD or something. I am just out of prison and I have zero money and currently this is out of my reach. But it may work well for you. BTW, try this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7180392/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7180392/

Software Engineer at Boldvoice here, also learning Mandarin. I've been told my Chinese accent is awful due in large part to misuse of tones and overemphasizing articles like 了. We'd love to build something for all languages but are focusing on just users learning english right now.

skykooler 3y ago
Also interested if you ever expand to Mandarin!

anadalakra 3y ago

Thanks! For now, we're laser-focused on English since it's the language that 1 billion people are learning (as non-native speakers). But we'd love to add more languages in the future, stay tuned!

throwaway447 3y ago

https://www.viki.com/categories/country/mainland-china/genre/all https://www.viki.com/categories/country/mainland-china/genre...

modeless 3y ago
Haha there's one about a "genius programmer", maybe not a terrible idea for listening practice.
- throwaway447 3y ago
  Dude, I am not sure you will still read this. Viki has changed: https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/17924295071251-Sunsetting-of-Learn-Mode-Feature https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/17924295071251-Su... What a clusterfuck. This may be a better option now: https://www.iq.com/ https://www.iq.com/
  - modeless 3y ago
    Oh bummer, what was it like?
    - throwaway447 3y ago
      Difficult to explain. As far as I remember it always showed the CN subtitles and you could with your mouse always see the translation and the meaning of the single characters. viki and iq are around 5 USD a months so it could still be worth it. This plug in is supposed to work well with Netflix: https://www.languagereactor.com/ https://www.languagereactor.com/ Netflix is 12 USD or something. I am just out of prison and I have zero money and currently this is out of my reach. But it may work well for you. BTW, try this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7180392/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7180392/