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I will double check because it might be a limitation I can solve easily enough.",{"value":97,"source":56,"evidence":98},"LLMs used for explanations",[99],{"id":59},"free","beta","unknown",{"praise":104,"objections":122,"requests":167,"questions":216,"alternatives":235},[105,118],{"value":106,"source":107,"evidence":108},"Reading in context with vocabulary introduced is effective and pleasant","commenter",[109,110,114],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"39808493","gleenn","This such an awesome and unique new way to learn a language. I use both Pimsleurs and DuoLingo but it's always kind of a chore. Will definitely give this a shot. Really…",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"39809606","trelliscoded","The LLM based explanations were the key thing about this app for me. It’s hard for me to fit foreign vocabularies into context for long-term recall without etymologies and…",{"value":119,"source":107,"evidence":120},"LLM-based explanations are useful",[121],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},[123,134,149,160],{"value":124,"source":107,"evidence":125},"Word-by-word replacement produces poor grammar",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"39811638","SamBam","I have to admit I don't quite understand this. Does it just replace words on a word-by-word basis? But the ordering of words in English is different from the ordering of words in…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"39852845","raybb","Hey a little later to the party here but I'm really enjoying this. I started reading a book with it and while I agree with others it's not great for grammar it certainly shows me…",{"value":135,"source":107,"evidence":136},"Not available in many regions",[137,141,145],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"39808125","harshitpdoshi","Bummer, it’s not available in my country.",{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"39815889","sunnybeetroot","Why the developer doesn’t make this app available in all regions beats me. If you’re reading this, please do so so I can download it.",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"39825757","nameisconcealed","Not available for India ?",{"value":150,"source":107,"evidence":151},"iOS 17 only",[152,156],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"39808586","foundry27","This looks really cool. I’d have loved to give it a try as someone interested in improving my French, but I wasn’t able to download the app since it’s pinned to the latest…",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"39808977","tremarley","It only works with iOS 17.0+ Could you make it work with any versions lower than 17.0?",{"value":161,"source":107,"evidence":162},"Uses AI, which some dislike",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"39814498","vouaobrasil","Not interested if it uses AI.",[168,179,198,209],{"value":169,"source":107,"evidence":170},"Android availability",[171,175],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"39808717","unhammer","Is there a waiting list for Android? :)",{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"39808905","vaughnegut","Looks great! I'd like to try it but the play store link has this error: > We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.",{"value":180,"source":107,"evidence":181},"More languages such as German, Portuguese, Chinese or Japanese",[182,186,190,194],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"39808543","mft_","Love the idea; can I kindly ask if you're expanding to include German?",{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"39813886","anonzzzies","Portugals Portuguese please (no Brazil, almost all the apps that teach Portuguese, teach the Brazil version, which makes you sound like a joke here; thanks Duolingo!).",{"id":191,"by":192,"text":193},"39817862","Beijinger","No Chinese. We had this on HN: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fsimjanos-dev\u002FLinguaCafe",{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"39813273","IOT_Apprentice","When will you have Farsi, Japanese & Mandarin?",{"value":199,"source":107,"evidence":200},"Browser extension",[201,205],{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"39808866","yaj54","I hate browser plugins - but this needs to be a browser plugin. Then I would use it while reading HN. ;-) I would suggest tackling dynamic difficulty and algorithmic selection of…",{"id":206,"by":207,"text":208},"39817621","PawgerZ","This would be super cool as a browser extention. Turn news articles or hacker news into a language learning tool.",{"value":210,"source":107,"evidence":211},"Better book selection, including modern books",[212],{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"39808168","troydavis","I'd use this if it had a book I wanted to read. A while back, I tried Prismatext (https:\u002F\u002Fprismatext.com\u002F). 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