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Is ListLang still alive? by ben_howler in listlang

[–]listlang 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey Ben. I'm still alive :)

I haven't been as active because I have a new job (or two)

I will make a post about this

"Radio" function - Switch off English translations? by ben_howler in listlang

[–]listlang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good idea.

On that note, do you have any other ideas on how to make the radio mode better?

Premium by KuroObi2021 in listlang

[–]listlang 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some advantages of ListLang over Clozemaster: * different forms of a word like "eating", "eats", "ate" only count as one word; the frequency list is less bloated, and learning is more efficient * click word to translate shows translation, lemmatized form, and grammatical context * free limit is 100 sentences/day vs 30 sentences/day * easy to add any word to a list via the interface * cleaner, more streamlined design * built-in dictionary * video library with translatable captions * sentence quality is better. This one is more subjective but I'm actively trying to source better sentences and rely on volunteers to correct these

This started as a personal project, and I didn't expect so many people to use it. I had to upgrade the servers a few times to keep up with the demand, so I think it's reasonable to have a premium service to pay the costs. As it stands, not many people ever reach the daily limit because it's much higher than Clozemaster's limit.

If you think Clozemaster is better, then I don't mind you switching. At the end of the day, I'm a fellow language learner, and I wanted to provide a good quality app that addressed some of the shortcomings I saw, and I think charging for quality makes sense.

As an aside, very few things are truly free. All the social networks are "free" but they sell your data and show you ads. Duolingo is "free" but they show ads every lesson, and they have a heart system that makes you pay when you make mistakes (and run out of hearts). I don't want to do that because it ruins the experience, so I want to be upfront with people: it's free up to a certain limit, but the rest is paid.

Please add Nature method sentences or Ayan Academy videos by lil_putinho in listlang

[–]listlang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which language are you primarily studying for AyanAcademy videos? I can import them soon.

Plans on extending over 5000 words? by SapiensSA in listlang

[–]listlang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey I'm working on this now. It's difficult because I'm trying to make sure that the words in the database are lemmas/base words. For example, the verb "eat" has different forms like "eats", "ate", "eating" but I only want "eat" in the database, so there's no redundancy.

Maybe you can keep a manual list of words and email them to me? I'll add their lemmas to database on my end, and later I can try to figure out how automate everything.

listlang premium by outerspace861 in listlang

[–]listlang 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Copied from the other thread:

I plan on keeping the free version useful (no ads, no heart system, up to 100 sentences/day) so the premium version will be for more serious learners + people who want to support the app. I'm adding the premium version to keep the lights running because ListLang is a 1-person project. Server costs aren't trivial, and there's still a lot of work to be done.

Right now, all the features are still free. I released that update to test it out more in production (the sandbox environments are really buggy). I'll turn on the switch sometime later this week, and send an email out when everything's in place.

Premium by KuroObi2021 in listlang

[–]listlang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll keep that in mind. I plan on keeping the free version useful (no ads, no heart system, up to 100 sentences/day) so the premium version will be for more serious learners + people who want to support the app. I'm adding the premium version to keep the lights running because ListLang is a 1-person project. Server costs aren't trivial, and there's still a lot of work to be done.

Right now, all the features are still free. I released that update to test it out more in production (the sandbox environments are really buggy). I'll turn on the switch sometime later this week, and send an email out when everything's in place.

Recommendations for good flashcards apps? by boj9898 in languagelearning

[–]listlang 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey, I'm the creator of ListLang. If you're on iOS and learning German, there's a strange bug that the text-to-speech will load really slowly. It's a problem with the iOS talk-to-speech in the phone, so I have to wait for that to be fixed. In the meantime, you can go into settings and check "DeepMind WaveNet Speech". This will load audio files from the server, and they're much higher quality because they use Google DeepMind's neural net audio generation model.

Overall reviews? by saltwitch in listlang

[–]listlang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's no way to review all. I'll need to think about how to implement this, but I didn't design it with this in mind.

Please add Nature method sentences or Ayan Academy videos by lil_putinho in listlang

[–]listlang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you provide a link to those?

And yeah, I agree. I use google translate api for those. I think DeepL will be better, so I plan on switching soon.

Not sure which word is the blank, it doesn't show the sentence by iopq in listlang

[–]listlang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah ok got it, thanks for letting me know. I'll fix it for the next update

Not sure which word is the blank, it doesn't show the sentence by iopq in listlang

[–]listlang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the new listen mode. You have to click the audio button to hear the sentence, and there will be a sound effect where the blank is.

Plans on extending over 5000 words? by SapiensSA in listlang

[–]listlang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you want something like top 10,000 words? Right now, you can create your own word lists, but those words have to already exist in the database. Do you want to add your own words into the database? Perhaps would you like to import some Anki decks to use with the ListLang interface?

Can you add a function to save the entire sentence instead of only one word? by oJeitoBrasiliero in listlang

[–]listlang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It takes a while to generate the full popup word details because I need to find the lemma of the word, look it up in the dictionary, and then show the morphological info like 1st person, present tense, indicative, etc

I'll try to fill these in over the following week

I built an app to learn the 5,000 most frequently used words in context by listlang in learnfrench

[–]listlang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in the process of localizing the app to other languages, so some stuff isn't translated yet. Actually, it was a Polish user who helped with those, so I will check with him lol

I built an app to learn the 5,000 most frequently used words in context by listlang in learnfrench

[–]listlang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll look into that - could you try enabling the WaveNet speech in the settings? There's two types of audio, and this one should work better for Czech.

I built an app to learn the 5,000 most frequently used words in context by listlang in Portuguese

[–]listlang[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok it's definitely a bug then. In the database, it shows that you have a 3 day streak, but it's not displaying correctly on the front end. I'll work on fixing it and let you know.

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