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by camwhite 707 days ago
Really like the idea. As someone who has been losing his limited spanish since college, I've been wanting something like this.

A couple pieces of feedback:

- It would be very useful to be able to get text translations of just one word at a time. Currently, I can give up entirely and have the whole message translated for me. But there's no way to just get help with the one word I can't remember the meaning of

- It would be very useful to be able to hide the text by default. I am interested in this app only because I am pretty bad at listening to spanish. That said, I am quite a bit better at reading it. Having the text always appear ruins my ability to practice listening

- The language selector at the top has 5 vertical bars that can be dark or not. I believe this might be a difficulty indicator? But it's not very clear

- When I speak some words are yellow. I assume this means my pronunciation was off leading the AI to not be very confident. That could also be a lot more clear

edit: fix formatting

2 comments

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I thought about adding one-word translations but didn't think about hiding the text completely. The difficulty selector is disabled right now, which can be confusing. Thanks for pointing it out.
Please can you explain how translating a single word is different from using a dictionary?