LibreLingo
Learning and science
language learning
SHOW HN2020
159points
68comments
#376of 3,028 in 2020
Top 13%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open-source approach is a good thing
From 2 comments
There's a lot of politics involved in that course data, too. That an open-source approach exists is a very good thing.
Vivtek on HNWonderful initiative. Would have loved to get involved but I really don't want to use GitHub. Any idea how people may contribute using other platform?
onyva on HN
Clean, light UI and good idea
From 2 comments
Love it. Seems a lot like duolingo, but with a lighter UI. Can you please add shortcuts, so you can type 1, 2 or 3 instead of clicking?
thepete2 on HNJust tried it and love the idea. Agree with the comments here. Single click without needing to "submit" the answer is more than enough and then skip the "continue" step for…
markosaric on HN
Objections
Competing with Duolingo is difficult; pick a niche
From 2 comments
Hi kantord, congratulations on the site! I tried something similar about 10 years ago, called wikibabel. I then joined with another site called wikiotics.org. We were very…
LaurentS on HNI also wanted to congratualte you for your effors. I'm a daily and long time user of Duolingo and thought of libre alternatives for a while. I'd agree with some sentiments in…
cptwunderlich on HN
Content creation is the biggest challenge
From 1 comment
Great effort - my thoughts as a learner of Finnish and perpetual searcher for internet learning content is that the biggest issue facing any learning platform (commercial or open…
helsinkiandrew on HN
Too many repetitive questions
From 1 comment
Cool! Please make sure to fix what I consider the major problem of Duolingo: it asks so much stupid questions (things I already know perfectly, even if I'm going to forget these…
qwerty456127 on HN
Requests
Support less common languages
From 3 comments
I am far from the first to say this, but please do push hard for languages that aren't commonplace (or well-developed) on other platforms. My language of choice would be Farsi.
dwrodri on HNI also wanted to congratualte you for your effors. I'm a daily and long time user of Duolingo and thought of libre alternatives for a while. I'd agree with some sentiments in…
cptwunderlich on HNI totally agree with this. I'm an avid Duolingo user with an over 2000 day streak but I would happily use another tool/game/platform if I could learn Malayalam. My family is…
johnkpaul on HN
Accented character input or on-screen keyboard
From 1 comment
One small piece of feedback : My (UK) keyboard doesn't have accented characters on it, and I don't know how to type them (well, I do, but many/most users won't), so typing "leon"…
RobAley on HN
Remove Continue step and single-click answers
From 2 comments
As someone who is learning Spanish at the moment, here is some feedback. - I think a single click is sufficient to choose the correct answer and submit it; alternatively let me…
petargyurov on HNJust tried it and love the idea. Agree with the comments here. Single click without needing to "submit" the answer is more than enough and then skip the "continue" step for…
markosaric on HN
Cheatsheets section
From 1 comment
As someone who is learning Spanish at the moment, here is some feedback. - I think a single click is sufficient to choose the correct answer and submit it; alternatively let me…
petargyurov on HN
Questions
How can people contribute without GitHub?
From 1 comment
Wonderful initiative. Would have loved to get involved but I really don't want to use GitHub. Any idea how people may contribute using other platform?
onyva on HN
Will course content be available for community contributions?
From 1 comment
Great effort - my thoughts as a learner of Finnish and perpetual searcher for internet learning content is that the biggest issue facing any learning platform (commercial or open…
helsinkiandrew on HN
Alternatives named
Duolingo
From 2 comments
Good idea. I personally love Duolingo. But I fear that the course data, which is mostly user contributed, will eventually disappear if the company goes under...
bayesian_horse on HNI also wanted to congratualte you for your effors. I'm a daily and long time user of Duolingo and thought of libre alternatives for a while. I'd agree with some sentiments in…
cptwunderlich on HN
Memrise
From 1 comment
As someone who is learning Spanish at the moment, here is some feedback. - I think a single click is sufficient to choose the correct answer and submit it; alternatively let me…
petargyurov on HN
Anki
From 1 comment
Maybe what you want are options like AnkiDroid does: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QFBCiyA_6WBKfr8Xoo1MqOrQw18t6KE7POlKV3BfA7fLETjnYYu51y2SMAliHTpd6A=w1860-h928 At the bottom…
madacol on HN
Tatoeba
From 1 comment
One way to get content would be https://tatoeba.org For example, to teach "oso" = "bear", there are already ten different example sentences with audio recordings:…
yorwba on HN
LingQ
From 1 comment
Completely tangential: The Rosetta Stone / Duolingo style of language learning has never really worked for me; I generally have more success and an easier time staying engaged…
mumblemumble on HN