cmmike

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by cmmike 2y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | US | remote only Senior Full Stack Engineer, web and mobile Clozemaster is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build, maintain, and improve our web and mobile apps to help people learn foreign languages fas
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by cmmike 7y ago
Hello HN! My name's Mike. I built The Great Translation Game to help me improve my Spanish writing skills. I figured the best way to improve my writing (and vocab and grammar) was by mimicking native-level content. I was copying and tr
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Show HN: The Great Translation Game – Improve Your Writing in Another Language(thegreattranslationgame.com)
2 points by cmmike 7y ago|1 comments
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by cmmike 9y ago
Clozemaster might be a useful complement to the Duolingo course - lots of content for Esperanto as well as a bunch of other languages. https://www.clozemaster.com
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by cmmike 9y ago
Awesome - glad to hear!
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by cmmike 9y ago
Clozemaster already offers this for over 100 language pairings via the Fluency Fast Track feature, https://www.clozemaster.com . Clozemaster's a game to learn and practice a language in context. The objective is to fill in t
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by cmmike 10y ago
Thanks for letting me know! I'll check it out. Japanese has been a tough one with no word boundaries.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Thanks! - bad sentences/mistakes - users can report sentences with errors. I'm notified and those sentences are then removed from their queue. Pro users can also ignore sentences, I'm thinking I may make this a free feature i
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by cmmike 10y ago
This issue is most likely the result of the hiragana being automatically generated and some kanji having different pronunciations based on context. I tend to trust the voices, and look up conflicting words in jisho.org to be sure. Ideally i
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by cmmike 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! 1) Cantonese flag is on my to-do list. 2) Agreed, I just need to come up with a good/automatic way of doing so without including the cloze word.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Good point! Thanks for the feedback. I'd also like to eventually add daily goals, and perhaps have streaks for those as well.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! always_good's response is really on point. Clozemaster isn't intended to be better than Duolingo, rather it's meant to be a complement and another tool to add to your language learning toolbox. Speaki
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by cmmike 10y ago
Nice!
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by cmmike 10y ago
Glad to hear! Yep I'm definitely considering a one-time lifetime payment for Pro, just trying to decide how best to price it - looking to make it available within the next few months.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Hm is there no progress showing up on your Dashboard?
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by cmmike 10y ago
Hm sorry about that - what mode are you playing? Have you tried playing the Fast Track?
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by cmmike 10y ago
Most of the lists come from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists with some additional processing to try to remove names, places, etc. I still need to make the exact lists Clozemaster is using avail
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by cmmike 10y ago
I'm using lists with declined nouns and conjugated verbs, so you should see the more common declensions/conjugations earlier.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Yep that's a known issue - I'd like to eventually implement voice gender to match missing word gender, but it's still a bit down the road.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Adding some kind of testing / assessment of a user's level in a given language is on my to-do list. That said, users can also self-assess and choose the corresponding frequency grouping they'd like to
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by cmmike 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Agreed on both points. I'm aiming to revamp the landing page within the next few months, definitely needs some work.
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by cmmike 10y ago
Yep! There are by-default reviews included with each round. Pro users can change the number of reviews per round as well as manually set sentences to 'Mastered', or ignore them so they're out of your queue entirely. I'm
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by cmmike 10y ago
There could certainly be multiple answers that make sense like you mentioned, though at the moment only one answer is accepted by default. There is however the option to add your own alternative answers, http://imgur.com/a&#
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by cmmike 10y ago
Hi Hacker News! My name's Mike. I'm the creator of Clozemaster. Clozemaster is language learning through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. The goal is to fill in the missing word in a given sentence. The missing word is the
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Show HN: Clozemaster – Learn language in context(clozemaster.com)
145 points by cmmike 10y ago|67 comments