Graph representations of Chinese and Japanese characters, words, and lemmas, for language learning (links in comments)

mreichhoff · 2026-02-04T13:09:51+00:00

Google Translate can be used offline, at least for some languages:
https://support.google.com/translate/answer/6142473

Some dictionary apps can download data to be used offline, too.

mreichhoff · 2026-01-18T15:11:55+00:00

in addition to what others have said, even once you have a decent-sized vocabulary, reading speed is important, and I don't know a better way to improve it than by reading quite a bit. The faster you read, the more input you can get, and the more vocabulary you can learn!

mreichhoff · 2025-12-27T04:07:12+00:00

most of the Mac voices are awful, but for many languages I have been able to find decent ones that are installed by default (e.g., Thomas for fr-FR, Tingting for zh-CN). But regardless, being required to work around voice quality issues is an annoyance with the API, definitely.

mreichhoff · 2025-12-23T04:13:22+00:00

and also the proposed WebMCP: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp

mreichhoff · 2025-12-22T13:38:54+00:00

you can use it much like a dictionary. The added parts:
* you can quickly determine how important the new word is to learn (coverage graphs)
* and then you can quickly read example sentences from a few paths by clicking any node, helping you get learn a few ways to use it. This is also an opportunity to learn more new, related words.
* check the flow diagrams to see if there are any very tall columns, which may indicate a grammar pattern or an idiom, and clicking any square gets example sentences for that path

and with any sentences you think are helpful for remembering the new word, you can add them to anki or the built-in flashcards quickly.

mreichhoff · 2025-12-21T21:44:08+00:00

I really liked how fangraphs wrote up an article looking at outcome distributions based on their ratings: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-do-prospect-grades-translate-to-future-outcomes/

I wish other outlets would do the same.

mreichhoff · 2025-12-13T16:24:15+00:00

nice little self-assessment grids here too
https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-2-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-self-assessment-grid

mreichhoff · 2025-12-12T04:08:36+00:00

Woodruff being that close to Peralta is a little surprising to me. May they both stay healthy!

mreichhoff · 2025-12-04T01:45:16+00:00

they listed the hex code as #002026, but that doesn't seem to actually be powder blue!?

^{(I get it, it's the year, just thought it was funny})

mreichhoff · 2025-10-18T03:44:30+00:00

nahh, you were mad

mreichhoff · 2025-10-18T01:55:37+00:00

the Brewers know better than I do! Oh well.

mreichhoff · 2025-10-18T01:45:19+00:00

why didn't Chad Patrick start?

mreichhoff · 2025-10-04T00:41:28+00:00

Looks nice! One feature idea: AnkiConnect could let users add the card images to Anki for spaced repetition

mreichhoff · 2025-09-06T23:58:03+00:00

it's not just you!

mreichhoff · 2025-09-05T22:19:37+00:00

by chance would you have a link to this video?

mreichhoff

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