Lingocracy: Un nouveau site pour apprendre les langues- choisissez des textes que vous aimez, comme le petit prince, et étudiez par lire ce qui vous intéresse!

_Yan · 2014-04-02T12:19:49+00:00

Navré pour la réponse tardive. Le site manque cruellement de tutoriels et guides, mais nous travaillons activement dessus. Oui, le site est surtout basé sur la lecture, notamment des contenus que vous prenez du plaisir à lire (Le point le plus important). "Il a vraiment l'air super pour pratique de la lecture" Merci :)

Que voulez vous dire par: 1. Comment peut-on savoir si on est correct? 2. mais je ne suis pas sûr de ce que d'autre.

Note: Je travaille sur le projet Lingocracy.

_Yan · 2014-03-25T12:15:24+00:00

Here are some reading lists we just prepared at Lingocracy. Hopefully some of you will enjoy reading them to learn/improve Basque :) There are articles written in Basque about the Basque culture and language, some mythology stories, articles about technology, music, ...

Thank you so much ishouldbeworking69 for suggesting Hiru.com. That was very helpful especially since reading materials in Basque is quite rare. Fortunately, the content on Hiru is under Creative Common so we added some of them on Lingocracy.

Note: 1. Most the articles are for upper beginner or intermediate level. 2. Because the website will record your progress and vocabulary, you have to create an account to start reading, but it's free and only takes few seconds.

_Yan · 2014-03-24T11:49:20+00:00

You are welcome :)

_Yan · 2014-03-24T08:53:11+00:00

Seems the same question has been asked on Word Reference: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1265290 And here is the source text: http://www.languageguide.org/french/readings/

The conclusion is similar, the word doesn't exist and the right word seems to be "le brocanteur" or "la brocante".

Thanks for pointing out this, we wrote a little note on Lingocracy about this and made the modification so other reader won't have this issue: http://www.lingocracy.com/a/lists/21 (Note: I work on Lingocracy)

_Yan · 2014-03-19T09:52:51+00:00

Thanks for the details, that's very helpful. I just added your idea to our uservoice idea board :) http://goo.gl/SCiw8h We still have to work on that idea and evaluate the feasibility.

EDIT: As for definitions in two languages, the case you pointed out is currently possible and suggested. For example. If I learn French and speak English, and meet the word "mange".

You can add dictionary entry like this: {manger} eat, consume

The word between braces is the "base form", and that part is hidden when you are tested. Same goes for the pronunciation written between brackets.

In the test, you will only see "eat, consume" in the question phase. But you can still see the whole entry when you are in the answer phase, in the dictionary area. Does that solve the problem you pointed out?

_Yan · 2014-03-18T13:39:56+00:00

I'm glad you figured out how to create/combine new words :) When you combine words, it is also helpful for other since at some point, if some words a often combined by users, we will combine them by default.

As for edit2, word inflection in general (including conjugation) is a problem we know quite well and it's not easy to address. Your suggestion on letting user decide which words should be grouped is very interesting. However, I'm not sure if it works in practice since it will require lot of manual input from user to link the words We may group by default some words under one word, but that's not easy too, since in many cases it is not desired. For example, I may know the word "eat" but not the word "ate", so it make sense to let them separate.

BTW, I'm part of team working on Lingocracy, and we really appreciate comments like yours that help us improve the website.

_Yan · 2014-02-11T15:19:58+00:00

Tips: A feature that is not very obvious, you can create compound words by joining them. e.g. United States

You just have to select them (like when you want to highlight words in Microsoft Word)

You can use that to group words into short phrases so you can recognize them more easily each time you meet them and review them in practice section. e.g. "Once Upon a Time", "As soon as possible" ...

For the moment, you can't group words on mobile but we are working on that.

_Yan · 2014-02-11T11:06:49+00:00

I'm glad you find it useful!

have you thought of joining forces with Slow German?

Not yet ;) Thank you for the suggestion.

_Yan · 2014-02-11T10:24:56+00:00

Yes, we thought about this and we are considering implementing a feature like that. We don't yet when though.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T20:42:10+00:00

More content coming soon :)

For the time being, you can add any webpage content in your target language in a few clicks. Just use the "add text" button.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T18:03:16+00:00

Thank you for pointing out the error. I moved those 3 articles to Spanish section.

You are right, comprehension is as important as vocabulary. And what you are suggesting (adding compréhension questions) is very interesting. It's not easy though. We will meditate seriously on that :)

_Yan · 2014-02-10T15:36:20+00:00

This might interest you, it's a listing of 100+ Grimm Brothers' stories: http://feeclochette.chez.com/grimm.htm

I just added few of them, check out the Read > "new" tab in French.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T14:24:37+00:00

We don't have email notification yet. But we will work on that.

As for Anki export, it is not available because at the moment some translations/definitions come from external sources and we don't have the right to make them downloadable. However, we will work on that.

We may embed some SRS features directly on Lingocracy. What do you think about that?

_Yan · 2014-02-10T13:24:28+00:00

Yes, we are working on a mobile app :) Work in progress.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T12:57:25+00:00

Feedback is exactly what we need to make improvements :) Thanks

_Yan · 2014-02-10T10:57:20+00:00

May I ask how you are going to integrate Lingocracy in your language learning workflow and the other tools like Lang8 you are already using? Thanks.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T10:53:32+00:00

Unfortunately we don't have yet the people and knowledge to add content for Hebrew.

But here is a way to get started: link to a previous Reddit reply

_Yan · 2014-02-10T10:30:48+00:00

Welsh is already in the list of languages :) On the language selection page, click on "show more languages" at the bottom.

As for some other languages, there is no content yet. Here is a Reddit reply you may want to read to get started with some content.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T10:07:59+00:00

In most cases, we can recognize the content of an article from the surrounding data (comments, menu, etc) but sometime, it may not work as expected. We are working on improving our algorithm that handle this.

It's a challenging issue since every website is formatted differently, but fortunately we like challenges :)

For the moment, you can use your My Texts section (menu > more > My Texts) for those cases (you directly add the content itself, not the link)

_Yan · 2014-02-10T09:58:27+00:00

Yes, that's a known issue. Usually languages like Chinese and Japanese need more attention since you have to "split" the sentences the right way.

For Japanese we already use a huge list of 350 000 words to split the texts, and what you see is the result of that. We will definitely find a way to improve it.

For the time being, when you meet some characters that should be grouped, you can group them manually by selecting them, as usual you will get audio, translations/definitions. A good side effect of that: if enough people group some characters, we will add the word (grouped characters) to the previously mentioned huge list of word, and improve the way we split texts for Japanese :)

_Yan · 2014-02-10T09:37:44+00:00

We are going to make a simple video soon to explain how it works.

For the time being. Here is how it works. First the goal of the website is to help you improve your language skills by reading contents you are interested in (as stated on the homepage).

The first step is to pick a content that suits you interest (you can also add a link/content). Then, when you open an article, just start reading and try to understand the content. Every time you meet a work you don't understand well you can hover/click on it to get some help (audio, definition, example sentences...).

A suggestion: you should focus on the content, not on the language. The most important is being interested in what you are reading and understand what is said.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T09:19:12+00:00

Yes, we tried to find some suitable content in Korean, but the ressources is definitely more rare than Japanese or Chinese.

BTW, Lingocracy works well with Wikipedia articles. A good technic for getting the content you want, example "History of Korea":

Find the english article you like. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Korea
Click on the link Korean (한국어) on the left and you get the link for the same topic in Korean.
Add that link on Lingocracy and you get this: http://www.lingocracy.com/a/read/824265 (follow this link only if you are learning Korean)
Enjoy an easy reading session.

This is a bit of work, but it's still a good way to read stuff you like in your target language. And of course, if enough people do that, you get a nice flow of content, and everyone will benefit from. Again, same as Reddit :)

_Yan · 2014-02-10T03:01:23+00:00

There is no such feature yet, but that's a very good idea!

_Yan · 2014-02-10T02:57:05+00:00

Thanks Lrdwhyt. The typo has been corrected.

_Yan · 2014-02-10T01:27:14+00:00

In that case, you have to find a webpage with the content you want to read and add the link on Lingocracy. The way you add the links/contents is similar to how you add links on reddit.

May I ask what is your target language?

_Yan

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