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by davidg109 1993 days ago
Looks good.

Why these particular words/sentences? Is this based on frequency? Something else?

I was trying to learn Spanish based off of frequency dictionaries at one point, but many didn’t provide conjugations of the verbs which made it questionable to learn.

I was even contemplating creating something myself that would take the top 5000 words and make complete sentences out of them... using conjugations of course.

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Hi David, thank you!

Indeed, using frequency alone will lead to a suboptimal set of sentences. Our approach was to choose sentences that increase smoothly in complexity, where we estimate complexity through a combination of criteria: frequency of vocab, tenses, number of clauses, etc.

Just purchased. Excellent quality!

I wasn’t sure how many sentences were included but bought anyway (you might want to add this to the FAQ unless somehow I missed it elsewhere). Seems to be about 2000 sentences per deck. Learning Spanish so this gives me access to 6000 sentences.

Well done!

That’s interesting to use ML to build the levels!