[ianjakobs]

Creator here. As I’m currently learning Spanish, I started reading the Harry Potter books out loud to my partner (a native speaker) a while ago to get exposed to new vocabulary and practice my pronunciation. From this, I then wanted to review those new words as flashcards, and I also discovered I enjoy writing brief summaries afterwards to practice actively producing content without the time pressure I might have when speaking. I built Felingua to help me with that, with the current main features being:

  1. Write pages in the language you’re learning and look up translations without having to switch context
  2. Get feedback on your writing automatically with suggestions on grammar and spelling and ask a person you know to correct it
  3. Create cards both from corrected text and translations and review them with spaced repetition to learn from your mistakes and expand your vocabulary

Happy to hear your thoughts or answer any questions!

[jmnicolas]

Hello, any idea on the pricing once out of beta? I'd rather not start to use a service now and having to leave once it gets too pricey for me (times are tough).

[ianjakobs]

I have no details to share at the moment, but the idea I have now is to at least always keep a free plan available. One option I'm considering is for a potential paid plan to then have more advanced features, such as fully customizable translations.

That said, when that time comes, I believe it only fair to try and keep early users with at least the current functionality available to them.

[jmnicolas]

Thanks. Any idea on an ETA?

[ianjakobs]

Also not yet, unfortunately. I wanted to hold off on that until hearing some more thoughts from users.

If you're interested in following along, I try to be open about working on Felingua over on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ianjakobs.