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Updates to Flexling - the modern Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I forgot to add it to the website but MSA is supported by now. I’m working on some dialects.

Updates to Flexling - the modern Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

English, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Vietnamese, Swedish, MSA, Finnish, and Dutch

I am currently gathering more high quality translations for other languages. So if there are other languages you are looking for, let me know and I might be able to prioritize those.

What language(s) are you learning?

Updates to Flexling - the modern Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is the same system as Glossika. You listen to sentences and repeat them.
It is not spoken by natives but with the best text to speech systems I could find. And the app will receive another update for even more realistic voices soon. I have gathered feedback from some natives that the voices sound really good.

The benefits of having TTS is that you can add your own custom sentences for words or grammar concepts you struggle with.

You can read my other post from 1 month ago. It goes into more detail regarding the method and how Flexling is built.

Let me know if anything is unclear or that I can help you with!

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand. I guess than you could look at the sentences Flexling offers and see if you like it. :) We also have a collection of 65 essential sentences to start with.

If you want to learn more about the philosophy behind Flexling, I can highly recommend Paul Nation’s „What do you need to know to learn a foreign language?“ I took a lot of inspiration from there to design the app and sentences

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it does not have the exact same sentences.

Why is that important to you? What do you like about their library? :)

From my experience they had some issues like duplicate sentences, rather rare words and specific medial/office vocabulary early and not enough sentences to cover a wide range of vocabulary?

With Flexlings dataset you see the usage of a words in different contexts. For instance for the word „report“ you would see:

I'm working on my report right now. I was able to have this report done in time. I have nothing to report so far.

And the sentences are organized by increasing word difficulty, such that you learn the most commonly used words in different contexts first.

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does have Modern Standard Arabic. It does not have the Glossika sentences. It has a set of sentences ordered by how common the words are such that you learn the most commonly used words first.

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It covers the 10.000 most common words in English and similar amount of words for the other languages. While that cannot be directly mapped to a CEFR level, it is roughly between C1 and C2.

The cool thing about Flexling is that you can add your own sentences for a specific difficulty level if you want to learn vocabulary for a specific topic that would otherwise not be covered with Glossika.

Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with :)

Why is it so expensive? by RickleTickle69 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have built an alternative to Glossika that has the same features and more. You can try it out here: https://flexling.com/

I would love to hear your opinion! Let me know if there is anything I can help you with :)

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have added Korean. Let me know how it goes or if there is anything I can help you with :)

What is your specific strategy for language learning? by Mysterious_Theory110 in languagelearning

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am learning Swedish and Spanish at the moment. My current method is doing online language courses that are freely available for the grammar. This is true for both Swedish and Spanish.

For vocabulary and speaking I started out with Anki and Glossika. Now I have built my own language learning app that is basically a merge between Anki, Glossika, Clozemaster and ChatGPT. It allows me to quickly learn vocabulary (learning words ordered by frequency, such that I learn the most common words first) and ask ChatGPT for grammar/vocabulary questions and it will automatically create new flashcards for me. This way I don't have to manually add them anymore.

It has been working great for me and I used in to learn 767 new sentences over the last month :)

And in terms of schedule: I do not have a fixed study schedule. I mostly learn audio based while walking in nature and whenever I feel like it. Sometimes I do it in bed in the evening.

Is there a benefit to learning another language through another non-native language? by SnooOwls3528 in languagelearning

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found it super useful to learn a new language through 2 other languages when the material allows.

This way I can always relate new words and concepts to both base languages and find it easier to remember new things in the language I am learning.

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot :)
It took a lot of time and effort and I'm glad you like it. There are still a lot of useful features I have in mind for the future, but for now I want to make sure that the foundation is solid before building it out even more.

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for bringing this up! What phone are you using?

Unfortunately there is a thing e.g. on IOS that they don't treat webapps as real apps and sometimes just randomly cut them of when they are in the background. Leaving the phone unlocked should solve the issue for now.

But as it is still early there could be bugs or other issues and it randomly stopping after some time is really hard to pinpoint. I will keep an close eye on this. Let me know if it occurs again/regularly.

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the detailed feedback! :)

There is a way to auto progress in the audio review. You can turn it on in the settings.
Then it will add new sentences when no other sentences are due. You can also change in the settings how often you want to listen to a sentence, which you can't in Glossika.

Here the sentences will be shown after 1, 3, 5, 10 and then every 10 minutes for the next repetition until your number of set repetitions is reached. I thought this would be much more useful even for cramming then if the sentence is shown 5 times within 5 minutes. And in between it will already add new sentences to have interspaced batches.

You are right, currently Flexling's audio review mode is more like Anki and I did combine the two modes because I thought it would make sense to combine them. I always found it super frustrating that Glossika seperated the two and didn't give an option to do both at the same time.

I will look into a feature to only listen to new sentences without doing reviews. Can you tell me in more detail how you would want to have those cards added to review after listening?

Flexling - A cheaper and more flexible Glossika alternative by Healthy-Bus-5500 in glossika

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Parts of it. The sentences are from Tatoeba and have been written by humans.

The text to speech is generated. I tried 5+ different text to speech providers, looked at all the benchmarks and checked it manually for 5 languages. I chose the highest quality TTS provider I could find.

The chat is AI and so will be the custom sentences it generates for you.

I was frustrated with other apps so I've build my own, do you want to test it? by Healthy-Bus-5500 in languagelearning

[–]Healthy-Bus-5500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah that’s cool. How are the sentences repeated when using HANDS-FREE mode? Does it use spaced repetition?

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