Which specific settings should I modify?
You can do so under Settings > Regenerate Curriculum, where you get a dialog box to give your feedback to re-create a new curriculum for you.
Readit Newsantonaf commented on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor · Posted by u/mariano54
I'm glad someone is building this! I was using this in Thai. I expected it to be awful. But it's actually very good. I only used it for a few minutes but will try to use it more later. It's possibly good enough for me to stop paying my tutor. However, please use a different Text to Speech model because the current Thai one sounds robotic, like the old (current?) Google Translate. This seems like a great product.
Ok, thanks for the feedback. Who was your tutor for Thai, Supatra or Malee?
I appreciate your comment about gamification. I’ve kept a streak alive on other apps for no other reason than keeping a streak alive. Not learning a thing.
Yeah, this is the biggest gripe we hear about much of the existing language learning landscape. That they're effectively gaming apps masked as language learning apps.
Edit: Never mind it seems to be an issue on my device.
The faq wont expand on tap for me on android firefox. Dm me if you need more info.
Looks like a great app and I can't wait to try it for Japanese!
Can the cards be exported to anki?
Exporting to Anki is something we're currently discussing, as various users have already requested this feature!
I tried the Web Version. Started, then tried to create an account, but it kept looping, informing me that my email address does not exist in your system. Well, the “Create New Account” got kicked off and gets me in a loop of “Do not Exist”. I just went through the whole process again, and I'm back to the beginning.
I’m going to assume this works better on the App.
Unclear what issue you hit, we'll look into it. Thanks for sharing.
Alright, having tried this with Japanese I can say it's frustrating. As a near complete beginner the tutor kept speaking in Japanese even when I said "sorry I don't understand" repeatedly and then when I asked it to start in English and then gradually transition to Japanese it lasted all of one sentence in English before switching back. I can totally see how this would be useful conversation practice if you've progressed that far, but I'd love to have something for even earlier beginners. Also since many of the models you use are natively multi modal this could readily integrate visual media for discussion and grounding.
Also, for the transcription it would be great to get pure romanji to start with!
Yes, I can understand and empathize with your experience. Quite honestly our current focus is more for B1+ students. That 0 -> 1 / bootstrapping of the language is much better served by traditional material that is less talking / listening-heavy.