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  posh_somme
  I've been learning Japanese for just over a year now, and its a community that might have the highest concentration of amazing free learning apps with sentence mining capabilities, many of which do things very similarly to what you're building. Have you tried some of these?asbplayer Manatan Yomine Anki Miner AnimeCards NagareThese are just for video, there are other similar solutions for games, manga and ebooks, and some of them are all in one
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  k__
  Cool idea!While I'm not so sure about learning a language with content from fictional sources, that should at least make it more relevant for the learners.And you can use it on podcasts too, where people talk normally.The biggest hurdle is probably that users need to get hold of the media so they can use it as input.
• ABS233
  During my English learning process, I often come across some slang expressions used in videos. Could this application handle them properly and mark them out?
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  skeledrew
  I've been somewhat studying Japanese for... quite a few years now. I have yet to find the "ideal" method, but I know it must be mobile (I'm continually migrating away from sitting in front of my laptop) and something I can randomly get in and out of at any time (anything taking up dedicated batches of time eventually gets dropped or barely touched).
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  cybertim
  I build the exact same system, but for (mandarin, simplified) Chinese which i'm learning. Wanted to create such a system for a while, but it's a lot of hooking up the correct libs and making a UI etc. never found the energy. Thanks to 'ai' I was able to do this finally, think more people needed this push :-) It's web-based and can be self-hosted in a docker.
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  MarceColl
  I've been building something similar but targeted at bringing content that interests you to your level: https://katarineko.com.I've been learning Japanese as well and the content at my level is boring while the content I'm interested in is a wall.
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  adamddev1
  I love having auto-generated subtitles available, but I am still skeptical that we can call them "accurate" yet. For many languages the models are quite weak, and even for English and German on YouTube I see errors all the time.
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  yellow_king
  >Drop any file. Get accurate subtitles.This is my main issue with tools like these. Automated subtitles are inherently inaccurate, because much of language depends on context which you cannot get just from a brief snippet of something. This wouldn't be much of an issue if the tool was targeted at people dedicated to creating subtitles, but if you're trying to learn a new language, how are you supposed to know when the output is wrong or not?
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  gr__or
  Been a pretty happy user of https://www.languagereactor.comNot seeing a reason to switch atm tbh
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  Yousef9
  This is really cool idea. But don't you think taking material and saving specific sentences may add unnecessary mental pressure to the process of learning which is said is ideal when the student is in a playful mood?
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  beeswaxpat
  Super cool, great job!
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  watwut
  > I'd find a video I wanted to learn from, hear a useful sentence, and then realise that turning that sentence into something I could study later was both time consuming and draining at times.How does not study a sentence? You mean memorizing it later?
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  colesantiago
  In the age of LLMs, AI assisted programing and vibe coding can't this all be replicated?I'm confused why is this a yearly subscription or paid at all?This tool might as well be open source to be brutally honest.
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  thatguy89
  account required != free to try.
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