We also support real-time word injection of video subtitles for platforms such as YouTube, Netflix, and Bilibili.
Readit Newsenglishcat commented on Show HN: Lingoku – Learn Japanese with DeepSeek/Ollama (Updated) · Posted by u/englishcat
No, you'll get email spammed to death.
Same here.
englishcat commented on Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work howbrowserswork.com/... · Posted by u/krasun
Great project, thanks
What's your next steps, do you plan to add more details of the reflow process?
englishcat commented on Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing lingoku.ai/learn-japanese... · Posted by u/englishcat
I love the idea! I am working on a similar app where you learn vocabulary through context. I would like to discuss more with you, where can I reach you?
Feel free to reach out — you can contact us via the email or Discord on our website.
englishcat commented on Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
Really interesting, does it totally based on gemini? seems the data is not accurate of my account.
englishcat commented on Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know simedw.com/2025/12/15/lan... · Posted by u/simedw
checked out the tool and think it's a cool idea! one piece of feedback though - I actually feel like the inverse product would be more helpful for me. What I mean is replacing ~95% of english text with words (Chinese in my case) that I can understand, and leaving the remaining ~5% (words I definitely don't know) in English.
At least for me, there's large value in consuming bigger volumes of Chinese to get me used to pattern-matching on the characters, as opposed to only reading a smaller amount of harder characters that I'm less likely to actually encounter
That makes a lot of sense, it really highlights the diffences in learning stages.
My current tool if primarily designed for intermediate language learners who have already learned some basic words, but still in the 'accumulation phase' - their main bottleneck is vocabulary size, so they need to see new words frequently.
it sounds like you are at a more advanced stage of learning Chinese, you have moved past simple vocab building and are focusing on flow and fluency reading. For your use case, that 'inverse' approach (Chinese with English safety nets) is definitely superior for pattern-matching, it's a different problem set, but a very valid one.
Appreciate your feedback.
englishcat commented on Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know simedw.com/2025/12/15/lan... · Posted by u/simedw
This is quite a great idea, as a native Chinese speaker, i want to say this is the way very similar how we learned Chinese when we were kids.
On the other hand, the Chinese writing system is logographic (or ideographic), unlike the English system which is phonetic. The most basic characters, such as 日 (sun), 月 (moon), and 山 (mountain), are essentially graphics (or pictures) of the objects themselves. that makes them very suitable for being represented by images. The emoji you are using is also very good.
I believe this method should be very effective for beginners in Chinese. However, once you have mastered the basic Chinese characters, you can learn about the structure of Chinese characters and then continue reading more materials to expand your vocabulary.
The real challenge is to expand your vocabulary through extensive reading, i'm actually working on a tool to solve this specific problem (https://lingoku.ai/learn-chinese), If you are reading English, it will insert Chinese text for you, if your are reading Chinese text, it will translate the text from Chinese to English then inject Chinese words into the translated text, thus improving your vocabulary while reading.