Langotto

@murchadh Thanks for the feedback! I've added a section on the learning page which provides the workflow I've been using. Currently there isn't a facility for demonstrating you know something but there will be in the future. I'm still trying to come up with a nice way of doing it where the user is honest with themselves about how much they know. I feel like a lot of other language apps feels like you're trying to trick the app to make it think you know more than you do (e.g multiple choice but it's clearly not the three other options). I'm currently leaning towards the flashcard approach (similar to Anki) but I haven't settled yet. If you have thoughts on this I'd love to know them

@daniel_slater - yeah, some sort of flash card approach would probably be the most straightforward. There may be ways to make multiple choice better than is usually bothered with - picking only alternatives that are the same part of speech, not proper nouns (or only proper noun when the item being considered is one) etc. More fun might be to take the English versions of all the things you're trying to learn and use WordNet semantic distances to power only showing somewhat-close stuff and antonyms.

@murchadh I've implemented the flashcard approach for now and might look more at the WordNet semantic distances soon. My main fear with something like that is that currently the program makes no assumptions about language which is what allows it to work with so many different languages so I'm being very conscious about adding features that would break that.

@daniel_slater Yeah, I wouldn't compromise on supporting learning between two non-English languages. I think you could still use WordNet, but you'd need to round-trip both source and target language words through English to use WordNet, which could produce some comical errors, no doubt.

@murchadh Yeah I was wondering about that, I'll definitely keep it in mind for future updates. Even if some were terribly wrong it would probably still be fine as it would display 2 other results with that... so as long as not all suggestions are terrible it'll work. Thanks for the great tip!

@john_hayes2 Thanks for the flashcards feedback, I'll start looking into that more seriously now. Interesting idea with highlighting unknown words but I'm not too sure what the purpose would be? Is it to get a visual gauge of how much you know, or just to see which words you need to learn?

@john_hayes2 Thanks for the recommendations! I added flashcards just now so let me know how that works for you. Speechling and Lingq both look pretty awesome!