This seems really cool. Even though there are clearly some flaws, the most important thing for learning to speak a language is simply the act of speaking and listening.
There's some key points of advice I'd give:
- Allow multiple languages under an account. People that learn languages tend to learn more than one. I'd personally like to practice my Spanish AND Chinese.
- Forget the lessons (for now at least. You're jumping in too fast and even the basic lesson requires quite a large barrier to entry). Make an easy way to just get to the chat in a specific language. That's the greatest utility of the tool, make it shine.
- There's also some ease of use things like lack of pinyin/latinization for some languages. Or like not being able to delete your message when in the translation (and that pressing the record again appends instead of rewrites). But this all seems like it'll be worked out by dogfooding.
Great job though! I'm excited to use it and have already shared with a few friends.
As a (CV) ML researcher, I'm curious what backends you're using and your control flow.
There's some key points of advice I'd give:
- Allow multiple languages under an account. People that learn languages tend to learn more than one. I'd personally like to practice my Spanish AND Chinese.
- Forget the lessons (for now at least. You're jumping in too fast and even the basic lesson requires quite a large barrier to entry). Make an easy way to just get to the chat in a specific language. That's the greatest utility of the tool, make it shine.
- There's also some ease of use things like lack of pinyin/latinization for some languages. Or like not being able to delete your message when in the translation (and that pressing the record again appends instead of rewrites). But this all seems like it'll be worked out by dogfooding.
Great job though! I'm excited to use it and have already shared with a few friends.
As a (CV) ML researcher, I'm curious what backends you're using and your control flow.