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by modeless 968 days ago
BoldVoice looks cool, are you planning other languages? Personally I'm learning Mandarin.
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Software Engineer at Boldvoice here, also learning Mandarin. I've been told my Chinese accent is awful due in large part to misuse of tones and overemphasizing articles like δΊ†. We'd love to build something for all languages but are focusing on just users learning english right now.
Also interested if you ever expand to Mandarin!
Haha there's one about a "genius programmer", maybe not a terrible idea for listening practice.
Dude, I am not sure you will still read this. Viki has changed: https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/17924295071251-Su...

What a clusterfuck. This may be a better option now: https://www.iq.com/

Oh bummer, what was it like?
Difficult to explain. As far as I remember it always showed the CN subtitles and you could with your mouse always see the translation and the meaning of the single characters.

viki and iq are around 5 USD a months so it could still be worth it.

This plug in is supposed to work well with Netflix: https://www.languagereactor.com/

Netflix is 12 USD or something. I am just out of prison and I have zero money and currently this is out of my reach. But it may work well for you.

BTW, try this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7180392/

Thanks! For now, we're laser-focused on English since it's the language that 1 billion people are learning (as non-native speakers). But we'd love to add more languages in the future, stay tuned!