Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm a Japanese developer living in Vietnam, and I built this for myself first. Two things kept getting in my way while learning the language. First, typing. Vietnamese needs tone marks, which normally means installing UniKey and fighting it in every text box. Second, pronunciation. I could read a phrase perfectly and still not be understood at a coffee shop, because I had never actually said it out loud. So the drill does both at once. A picture and a translation come first, so you have to recall the phrase instead of just copying it. Then it appears, is read aloud twice (slower the second time), and you type it — TELEX is converted in the browser, so "chaof" becomes "chào" with nothing installed. Voice input then turns on automatically and listens to you say it. It's 20 everyday phrases right now: ordering cà phê sữa đá, asking how much something costs, saying you're lost. The interface is in 11 languages, there's no signup, and the source is on GitHub. Chrome or Edge works best, since it relies on the Web Speech API. I'd love to know which phrases you'd want added next, and whether the voice checking is too strict for your accent — that's the part I'm least sure about.

Vietnamese Drill

Type and speak Vietnamese — no UniKey, no signup

Type and speak Vietnamese — no UniKey, no signup