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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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kstenerud 4/1/2025|
Looks cool! Unfortunately, the buttons are unresponsive on Firefox :/
tifik 4/1/2025||
The signup confirmation email has awstrack.me tracking in it :(
ph4evers 4/1/2025|
Oh I thought I disabled that. Sorry about it. I'll remove it.
a_c 4/1/2025||
I'm getting "Failed to load video player"
nathell 4/1/2025||
I’ve been learning Spanish on Duolingo. It has brought me from zero to scoring 96% on this test – I didn’t realise I was so advanced!

I love the concept and the execution. This is a rare instance of a Show HN that I not just admire, but can easily see myself using regularly and paying for.

Please, please monetise this in such a way as to avoid enshittification.

ph4evers 4/1/2025|
Thank you! Right now it is not costing me a lot of money. So hopefully if I provide enough value and a decent price it can be a sustainable project!
initialg 4/1/2025||
i'm loving it! added it to my daily tasks now!
KerryJones 4/2/2025||
Love the idea! Any chance you could get Mandarin?
stuaxo 4/1/2025||
It's a shame the news is so depressing.
IdontKnowRust 4/1/2025||
Is this in some way related to youglish?
preciousoo 4/1/2025||
This is nice!
_qua 4/1/2025|
This is a great idea. Nice job!
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