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Posted by ph4evers 4/1/2025

Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news(app.fluentsubs.com)
I've been working on a little side project that combines Duolingo-like listening comprehension exercises with real content .

Every video is transcribed to get much better transcripts than the closed captions. I filter on high quality transcripts, and afterwards a LLM selects only plausible segments for the exercises. This seems to work well for quality control and seems to be reliable enough for these short exercises.

Would love your thoughts!

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joo2024 4/1/2025|
could u add euro portuguese please? ive seen many euro portugues language models. ive been meaning to learn but most are brazilian
axpy906 4/1/2025||
Suggest to get rid of drag and drop for multi choice or something else. Tried doing on mobile and it’s a bit difficult.
stephankoelle 4/1/2025||
Don't autoplay in a loop it's very annoying. With that gone, it will be fun. Remove drag and drop.
dionian 4/1/2025||
I absolutely love this - one thought, clicking the words should auto drop them into the first open spot.
gniv 4/2/2025||
Cool idea! I tried French with manual input. How do I move on, there is no button to advance.
ph4evers 4/3/2025|
Sorry it is a bit hidden. You should press 'enter' on the keyboard.
ed_db 4/1/2025||
Looks promising, please let me know if you're able to add Swedish or if that's on a roadmap.
IntStorage 4/1/2025||
This is a great idea! Anyway to stop the videos from constantly replaying while filling the gaps?
pjc50 4/1/2025||
For some reason, probably my corporate firewall, this is blocked by certificate errors for me.
ph4evers 4/1/2025|
Probably YouTube is blocked by the corporate firewall. Or my whole domain?
Aromasin 4/1/2025|||
Mines' the same. My local firewall blocked the site when the YouTube embbed tried to play, and when I switched to my work VPN it blocked the domain altogether.
pjc50 4/1/2025|||
Youtube itself is fine. It's not a domain block but "certificate issuer unrecognized". Palo Alto Networks?
bawis 4/4/2025||
Lovely idea and implementation, Waiting for Slavic languages.
scrollop 4/1/2025|
This is very good, thank you.
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