jmcannon

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   Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS(cleverdeck.com)

   3 points by jmcannon 9y ago|2 comments
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   by jmcannon 11y ago

   Interestingly, Kyle (founder of Cruise) was intimately involved with the DARPA Grand Challenge at MIT when the goal was to engineer a self-driving car.
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   by jmcannon 11y ago

   I used two.
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   by jmcannon 12y ago

   I did all the UX design myself then passed it to the very talented Yoshini who made it pretty. yoshinig.com
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   by jmcannon 12y ago

   Not right now - I'm sorry. If Anki is perfect for you and you've made all your decks, that's great! Keep using it! If you ever decide to learn another language, we'll be here with a bunch of content ready for you :)
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   by jmcannon 12y ago

   If you sign up on the email form on the front page of cleverdeck.com, I will send something out when we launch an Android version. But that means you'll also be spammed when we launch new languages for iOS. Not ideal - I'll try to
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   by jmcannon 12y ago

   Thanks! All fixed.
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   by jmcannon 12y ago

   Oh, is there not an email input there? Sorry about that. Feel free to email me at justin@cleverdeck.com.
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   by jmcannon 12y ago

   Really? I'm really sorry about that. We checked those lists so many times. If you can be bothered, please email me at justin@cleverdeck.com and let me know what you found. We'll push an update fixing any errors ASAP.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    hfsktr - I feel you. Managing all your own content in Anki (especially when finding or making your own images) becomes very tedious.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Thanks! I appreciate the nudge. :)
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Anki is a spaced repetition app that would allow you to create your own cards for this sort of thing (add arbitrary images to one side of the card).
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    We wrote in detail about how we picked the words here: http://cleverdeck.com/blog . Most of the example sentences were hand-picked from tatoeba.org. That covered about 2700 of the words - our teachers wrote the remaining 300
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Sorry, switch native-->target and target-->native in my last paragraph.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    You're welcome! :) In building this app, we didn't survey the research addressing that question specifically (though googling "L1 vs L2 flashcards" pulls up some interesting sites). For me personally, speaking from 15+ y
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    I agree with you on DuoLingo - great app, not good for vocab learning. Anki was my main SRS app for many, many years. I didn't like managing all my own lists (and was often buggy). I didn't like the UI. Adding pictures and audio w
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Haha, right - I was thinking "Brazilian Portuguese." Though, we will be launching Mexican and Canadian soon as well!
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Thank you. That means a lot to me.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Absolutely. All 3000 included cards have native-speaker audio. We recorded it ourselves.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    I'm a Turkish teacher! I make podcasts to help people learn Turkish. Supplemental material costs a monthly subscription. It's here: http://turkishteatime.com Istanbul doesn't generally feel much cheaper than San F
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    I know, I know - I'm sorry. Despite some of the objections, I just think flags do make great language icons. I do understand that complaints, though. In that particular case, we chose the Brazilian flag because the list and audio is
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Good questions! The free app (there's only one freemium app, actually), has all 3000 words built-in. We charge based on how many you swipe into your deck (i.e. you decide to actively learn). The app comes with a free deck size of 50, t
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Yes, when talking about the language learning market, English is the whale. We're going to get there as fast a possible, but it means we'll have to be prepared for everything that comes with having non-English speaking customers.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Thank you! The German list is done and we actually finished recording yesterday. I think we'll be able to release it within a month.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    I'll answer! Check out Anki and Memrise. They, in my opinion, are the best SRS alternatives out there.
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Ah man - one of the things I've learned from my launching my first iOS app is how painful it is to answer this question. Painful because yes, I would LOVE to. Let's see how people like it on iOS, then I can decide the best way to
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Thanks! Right now, we just want to make the best piece of technology possible for learning thousands of words. I don't think grammar is learned very well through flashcards (though, every word does have an example sentence, so you coul
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Oh no, I really hope it doesn't give that impression. I'm open to suggestions on how to avoid that perception. It's freemium. You can download the full-featured app with a deck size of 50 (also enough to learn just enough wor
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    There's a lot to talk about, much of which I wrote about in detail here: http://cleverdeck.com/blog But to name the big two: 1. I just wanted something I could pull out of my pocket and tell me what to learn. Of course
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    by jmcannon 12y ago

    Shoot - I knew this was going to happen. Sorry about that. I'll go take a look.