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LangPanda
Learn languages from watching your favorite shows
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Learn languages from watching your favorite shows
78 followers
LangPanda helps you learn 36 languages by watching your favorite shows. Instant dictionary, flashcard creation, vocabulary tracking. 7-day free trial.
@chrislabonty Learning from shows you already want to watch solves the real problem with language apps: it's not the method, it's that people quit. You can't churn out of something you'd do for fun anyway. The spaced-repetition layer on top of native content is the smart combo. One thing I'd be curious about: does it pull vocab from what you actually watched, or from a fixed deck? The first is way harder but it's the whole magic, learning the words from your shows, not someone else's textbook. Upvoted.
@artem_fedorovich Hey Artem. Yes, I totally agree. I have been learning from shows, vlogs, movies for years and its actually very enjoyable. A lot of traditional apps can get boring quickly and usually don't get most people to a high enough level to actually understand native speakers. The sentences and vocab you add to your decks is from the content you choose yourself. I have tried shared decks before and they don't produce the same results as making your own deck. When you create your own cards from a show you watched, your brain has a strong memory to that scene making it much easier to remember. There is also a feature where you can "fork" other LangPanda learners cards (people can opt out of sharing their cards if they would like to). Appreciate the support!
This caught my eye because tokenization is the silent killer for that language group. Mandarin and Thai have no spaces, Japanese mixes three scripts in one sentence, Korean spacing rules are loose. Did you build the segmenter yourself or wrap something existing like jieba or MeCab? Great job!
@artstavenka1 Thank you. And you are spot on, that has been one of the big challenges as their is not a single library to handle all languages. The good thing is I am studying all those languages except Korean which I am just dabbling in.
For Japanese - kuromoji + IPADIC + custom rules
For Mandarin and Cantonese, custom lexicons + longest match scanner plus tone-aware pinyin/jyutping rendering on top (a few rare edge cases where pinyin may be off on a word, going to build rules to handle these edge cases).
Thai, Khmer, Lao, Myanmar - Intl.Segmenter as the base with extra logic to walk through clusters. Also some custom rules. Not 100% perfect, still working on improving this as I am studying Thai everyday
Korean - hangul-js + custom suffix-conjugation rules
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I'd love to see it in action! Do you have demo content? I couldn't find it on the home page.
@gurbax_ Hey Gurbax! There is not a demo account however there is a 7 day free trial so you can test it yourself. You can also access some of the extension and mobile app features for free.
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This is pretty cool IMO. If we could turn any content we consume and face to in every-day life into a language we wanna to learn, we would be native speakers soon!
@busmark_w_nika Thank you! I think learning from native content is one of the best ways to learn languages and its also enjoyable. I have been doing it almost every day for years.