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Linguican - Learn languages with music

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Linguician is the best way to learn languages through music and lyrics. Use our amazing language immersion software to learn Spanish around songs from Enrique Iglesias and others!

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Rob J Eiter
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Hello Product Hunt Community! I just woke up after a couple of baby earthquakes last night here in Santiago and found out we are hunted on Product Hunt! What a surprise! So let’s do that now! Linguician was started around a year and 4 months ago by my co-founder Alex and myself. Our mission is to change the way educational software is build – from 40% gamification at Duolingo we want to move to 80% gamification at Linguician. In our view learning anything should no longer feel like pain but like quality time. If you want to read more about our mission – I wrote a blog about this: https://medium.com/@EiterRobert/... So let’s quickly introduce Linguician then: Linguician is a platform that uses music streaming (currently YouTube, maybe a different Streaming Service in the future) and licensed lyrics (by LyricFind) as language learning content. The user can learn new words while playing with a commercial/popular song. We are collecting data about user input and in the near future we want to use Machine Learning Algorithms to adjust the difficulty to the level of the user. That’s about it. – So since we are already here at Product Hunt please let us know what you think about it! We appreciate any comment and review of our platform!
Eva Reder
@robert_eiter @eiterrobert I love the songs you selected for learning German . How do you pick them? Do you have native speakers for all languages? Great job guys! Let me know if you need any help from a fellow Austrian with solid growth-hacking skills in Silicon Valley
Rob J Eiter
Maker
@e_reder we are mostly using the spotify API for choosing songs. the API comes with a wide range of parameters and we focus on speed and popularity inter alia. by now with all the intelligence we have on that we could tomorrow also launch an automated DJ bot ;) - we plan to use Machine Learning in the near future to adjust the songs displayed to the music preferences of the user - whenever we see there is demand for a language combination we increase the available number of songs on our platform - here also we work with a bunch of APIs but have manual freelance translators working for us - since currently no API would be good enough to deliver high quality (although this may change in the next few years - compare it to self driving cars, at one moment the code will be cracked). The freelancers are based around the world and always translate into their native language. thanks a lot for offering your help - that is of course always very much appreciated. feel free to reach out to me at any time: robert.eiter@linguician.com
Tine
I learned so much Spanish from singing along to Manu Chao, this is a super good idea!
Atul Acharya
@tine_schaer_popp 👍 I gotta give this a try..
janniks
Awesome idea! 🎵 Happen to have met the makers once! Great team from Austria! ⛰
Thomas Sugar
@jannikscript A team from Austria, refreshing ...
Mamamia
Excellent initiative, you may consider expanding the app to kids too. Missing the French option, especially to learn English.
Alex Marshall
I love seeing creative ideas that make language learning more accessible. I'll definitely be trying this out 🎧
Peter Reyes
This actually looks incredible. Giving it a try now!
Nathaniel Chen
This is a great idea! I tried a German song and it works well. I would love to use this for Chinese and Korean, too! How quickly are you able to add new content? Would you consider doing this for TV shows?
Rob J Eiter
Maker
@banada - Hi, thanks for your comment. We are very quickly able to add new content - more or less within 3-5 days. Yes, we would be really interested in doing it for TV shows as well. The software works just as fine for any sort of language immersion content. We decided to go ahead and start with lyrics, but this does not mean we will limit ourselves to this. In case you want to follow up with me on this feel free to reach out to me via email at any time: robert.eiter@linguician.com
Costantin
Very nice idea!
Ram Rayavarapu
Congratulations. Interested to find what CMS have you used for user registration?
Rob J Eiter
Maker
@ram_rayavarapu we are using php and the laravel framework ;)
Ram Rayavarapu
@robert_eiter Thanks. Once you're out of beta drop me a message, I would curate this on collegestash.info
Rob J Eiter
Maker
@ram_rayavarapu great! I will keep that in mind
Kristen Mozaffari
Fantastic idea! I've always believed music is a great way to learn. Love this. I know it's still fairly new, but any app plans? Other languages? I'd looove to see Japanese.
Rob J Eiter
Maker
@zanzaboonda we will definitely make apps once Linguician is in a bit more advanced state than today. Japanese is interesting - but due to the different letters not the easiest language to implement. Thank you for your feedback - let's stay in touch
Kristen Mozaffari
@robert_eiter Awesome! Thanks for replying. And for sure! If there's anything I can do to support you guys, please let me know. :)
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