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Curious if you have tried (or heard of) spanishdictionary.com? I work on it, and our users seem to like it and find it effective. The name is a bit misleading—s

Curious if you have tried (or heard of) spanishdictionary.com? I work on it, and our users seem to like it and find it effective. The name is a bit misleading—started out as a dictionary but now has a full curriculum up through a couple years of college Spanish. We don’t really do any paid marketing (or any other kind for that matter) so I’m always curious about whether people have heard of it.

Zmajche 1y ago
Someone mentioned on r/DuoLingo so I installed in order to try it. My biggest problem with it was the UI and lack of options to configure it. I would really like options to make fonts and buttons bigger. Altough I changed phone font size in order to use app, small height of buttons on the bottom are really getting on my nerves.
- sandinmyjoints 1y ago
  I'll pass this along! Since you mentioned installing, I'm assuming this was an app, not web. Android or iOS?
  - Zmajche 1y ago
    Android App via PlayStore...
zzzeek 1y ago
I will try it. From my other comments you can gather I'm a sad lifelong monolinguist despite having a terrific Spanish foundation in middle school, and I can hardly imagine ever being conversational. But it's only been a week
hbn 1y ago
I use spanishdictionary.com (both the app and website) all the time for when I forget a word or conjugation, I really like it for that. The fact that when I type in a word in either language and hit enter, it goes straight to the page for the definition and translation to the other language is great UX (i.e. not dumping me to a search results screen, or making me toggle between languages) I think it got me to try out a lesson a while back but it felt kinda half-baked and I never continued further. My biggest issue with the site/app is the constant splash-screens/pop-up modals that take over the app/website to try and get me to upgrade. I get you guys want to funnel people towards the subscription, but being nagged daily when I'm just trying to look up a word is not making me more likely to bite.
- sandinmyjoints 1y ago
  If you tried the lessons more than a couple years ago, it may be worth revisiting. I hear you about the marketing stuff. FWIW, if you create an account (totally free, no CC needed or anything like that), you will see less of it.
  - hbn 1y ago
    I'll give it a shot, thanks!

Zmajche 1y ago

Someone mentioned on r/DuoLingo so I installed in order to try it. My biggest problem with it was the UI and lack of options to configure it. I would really like options to make fonts and buttons bigger. Altough I changed phone font size in order to use app, small height of buttons on the bottom are really getting on my nerves.

sandinmyjoints 1y ago
I'll pass this along! Since you mentioned installing, I'm assuming this was an app, not web. Android or iOS?
- Zmajche 1y ago
  Android App via PlayStore...

zzzeek 1y ago

I will try it. From my other comments you can gather I'm a sad lifelong monolinguist despite having a terrific Spanish foundation in middle school, and I can hardly imagine ever being conversational. But it's only been a week

hbn 1y ago

I use spanishdictionary.com (both the app and website) all the time for when I forget a word or conjugation, I really like it for that. The fact that when I type in a word in either language and hit enter, it goes straight to the page for the definition and translation to the other language is great UX (i.e. not dumping me to a search results screen, or making me toggle between languages) I think it got me to try out a lesson a while back but it felt kinda half-baked and I never continued further. My biggest issue with the site/app is the constant splash-screens/pop-up modals that take over the app/website to try and get me to upgrade. I get you guys want to funnel people towards the subscription, but being nagged daily when I'm just trying to look up a word is not making me more likely to bite.

sandinmyjoints 1y ago
If you tried the lessons more than a couple years ago, it may be worth revisiting. I hear you about the marketing stuff. FWIW, if you create an account (totally free, no CC needed or anything like that), you will see less of it.
- hbn 1y ago
  I'll give it a shot, thanks!