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Yarn Vocabulary

Learn foreign vocabulary as you browse in English

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Luke Razzell
@weaverluke · Designer
The starting point for Yarn was trying to make improving a foreign language as effortless and fun as possible. As someone who struggles to keep up my Japanese studies here in London, the app scratches a personal itch. Key challenges have been building a vocabulary-difficulty analytics solution (so we can prompt study of words of appropriate difficulty) and t… See more
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@kaigani · NFC Product Owner at MOO
A really clever app that lets you read news articles in English as it reinforces your language learning in other languages. I've worked in EdTech and one of the challenges is finding a way to reinforce new learning habits by building upon existing daily habits – like reading The Guardian. Yarn Vocabulary strikes a good blend of passive and active learning a… See more
Paul Wozniak
@iwozzy · Product @ LoopUp
This is pretty amazing! I wish there was a Chrome extension that would do something like this in the browser.
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Luke Razzell
@weaverluke · Designer
The starting point for Yarn was trying to make improving a foreign language as effortless and fun as possible. As someone who struggles to keep up my Japanese studies here in London, the app scratches a personal itch. Key challenges have been building a vocabulary-difficulty analytics solution (so we can prompt study of words of appropriate difficulty) and t… See more
Alex Mishyn
@amishyn · Product manager, Railsware
Very good idea. I would say I lack of formal translation in the list of translations for selected word. Also some UI might be improved