Thanks @rrhoover! I made this to help improve my Korean listening comprehension skills. I can read and write it decently, but listening is challenging. I hope other language learners find it useful as well.
The concept was inspired from an open source Electron app called Voracious (https://github.com/rsimmons/vora...) which my friend built to help his Japanese listening comprehension. The app runs on your desktop and allows you to playback local videos with multiple subtitles at once.
I wanted to apply the same concept to YouTube, and also provide a way to discover good content. YouTube doesn't provide a way to filter videos by subtitle language, so I built this feature into CaptionPop.
I have some more features planned but I'd love to get some feedback from the ProductHunt community. If anyone has any thoughts or requests, please let me know.
This is a fantastic idea, and well executed! This is going in my language learning toolkit. I wonder if there is a way to make subtitling easier for creators, so that we can get more content for language learning.
@banada Thanks Nathaniel! I'm really glad you like it. The subtitles are all pulled from YouTube, which already provides a really good interface for creating subtitles and also sourcing subtitles from the community.
I had someone suggest I add a "request subtitles" button for videos that are missing subtitles for your target language. This might send a message to the content creator, or maybe encourage someone in the community to write subtitles. Would this be an interesting feature to you?
@jbaudanza sending a message to the content creator is an interesting idea. Mobilizing the community for any given piece of content would be difficult. I've long been interested in a bounty system for subtitles
nice... this reminds me of when I was in Vietnam... my new friend watches Youtube videos in English with Vietnamese subtitles to learn the language and he's doing good... this just seems like the next logical step. right on.
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I was using Superpan(a Korean language learning app) which is almost similar to this app. But there’s limited video selection on Superpan. I couldn’t listen to those specific design videos. I can search any videos, now I can study Design and English at the same time. Thanks, Jonathan!
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Allow you to tackle Intermediate and Advanced language videos sentence by sentence. Its a good method for any person looking to transition from the beginner stage of language learning to Intermediate. Involves watching YouTube content with subtitles and English translations with flash card drills system that including listening and typing.
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