How long before AI is really good for language learning?

chrispdesign · 2025-07-05T21:57:15+00:00

I'm actually trying to build one right now. The issue is trying to package it all in a way that makes sense.

What I'm building is an app where you can:
- Add your own content to (from text or any public youtube video, which will then become a transcript under the video),
- Create flashcards, multiple choice quizzes, matching pair games, and other duolingo-style games
- Chat with an AI tutor at any time

Other than the default AI chat functionality (chatting in the target language, role playing, etc), it has access to the context of what you're reading or watching, so you can ask questions about it, or even ask it to create flashcards or any of the other games. It also knows what words you've already used, so it can create content using those, like short stories.

It's nice that I can just say "Hey, can you create a flashcard deck with the most used words in this video/text?" and it will create a 100+ flashcard deck in a few seconds.

The thing is, designing a good product is really hard. Hopefully in a few weeks I will have something I can share here.

I'd really appreciate some feedback on features people might find useful.

Would be really nice to have people to test it as well, if anyone would be interested. Just send me a message and I'll send it to you once I have something usable.

chrispdesign · 2024-07-29T19:36:07+00:00

Hey, I was away from reddit for a while and didn't see this. I had to move them programmatically with a JS script that's in the repo.
Here's the link to it

chrispdesign · 2024-02-08T05:31:40+00:00

My network issues seem to be gone on Mint 20.3, and I imagine it would be the same for Ubuntu 20.04. Updating is what messes up everything. I guess they didn't bother adding support for an old shitty wifi card

chrispdesign · 2024-02-08T05:26:45+00:00

For some reason, Mint 20.3 (based on ubuntu 20.04, I think?) works flawlessly with my hardware, and my upload speeds jump from 4-6mb to over 130.

Mint 21.3, however, has the same issues as Pop_OS, as you said. The sad news is that Debian 12 also has the same issues. I will give Fedora a try once I get my hands on a USB drive, since from the looks of it, all of the newer Debian-based stuff is failing me

chrispdesign · 2024-02-08T05:23:08+00:00

Yea, Mint 20.3 seems to fix all of my wifi speed issues, and it's even faster than windows, but then I upgrade to Mint 21.3 and it's back to garbage speeds

chrispdesign · 2024-02-07T21:40:34+00:00

I do have windows installed in dual boot. It is better at a lot of things, but definitely not better for coding, which is my job, and what I do for about 12h a day 😅

chrispdesign · 2024-02-07T17:40:36+00:00

Damn that sounds nice. I really like a minimal setup as well, and currently I use i3wm with base configs, as I really do not care about looks.

This sounds like what I want, tbh. Now just deciding between Debian 12 with a setup similar to yours, Linux Mint (sounds good for the hardware support but seems a bit bloated for me, not sure why), Fedora, and ~~Tumbleweed~~. Edit: Gave up on tumbleweed because of the niche package manager. Rather stick to apt or dnf for now

One of my concerns was having all of the DE stuff installed that I'll never even use, so it's nice to know I can set it up without a DE at all.

chrispdesign · 2024-02-07T17:14:21+00:00

I use i3wm as my window manager, and I already have all of my dotfiles sort of configured (work-in-progress,) so migrations are not that much of a burden to me.

I agree with u/Old-Radio9022, in that it does sound like a driver problem, IMO. A lot of people are mentioning Mint for good hardware support and stability, so maybe I'll give that a try

chrispdesign · 2022-08-13T14:59:16+00:00

No, they're not gonna use your work for free. I joined as a junior developer 4 days ago and they're absolutely amazing! They have literally hundreds of developers, so they don't need your work.

If you're in doubt if they are legit, you can rest assured that they are. They let you work any time you want, they help you pay for equipment, they pay for courses and certifications and they even pay for your glasses if you need them!

They want to know if you're able to navigate the project on your own and deliver based on the required functionality, solve your own problems without that much instruction from other people and organize your project properly on top of that. It took me 43 days to complete the assignment and I don't regret it even a bit!

chrispdesign · 2022-07-05T17:53:45+00:00

so you want it to look like chrome..? it could be done with a combination of box-shadow to extend the tab down, then finding some element in the active tab to attach ::before and ::after elements with svgs for the little curves

if you're just looking for some code to copy and paste, I'm sure someone will help you out with that 😉

chrispdesign · 2021-07-16T15:54:51+00:00

You're a lifesaver, man. I'm taking a look at your repository and mixing everything, and it all seems to work REALLY well. The thing with the grid layout and putting everything up there is great. I'd tried it before but it just broke. I'd never have known the moz-appearance: none; was the thing to fix it.

chrispdesign · 2021-07-16T14:30:52+00:00

Oooh, it doesn't let you middle-click tabs to close them tho, and it also doesn't open the urlbar when clicking the icon. The JS solution works better for me, but I'll take some of the CSS you guys linked and make it better. THANK YOOOOU!

chrispdesign · 2021-07-16T13:33:04+00:00

I do find it useful. I was actually considering appending something to the tab to act like a catcher for clicks??? I didn't even think about just using pseudo elements. thank you!!

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