> 1. Buy a book you genuinely want to read (if not genuinely interested, you will lose motivation).
This has been my issue. There's a really small set of novels I enjoy. The better (but not good) recommendations have been to re-read something I've already read as a translation. I have never re-read a novel in my life and I'm not sure it being a frustrating experience would make it more appealing.
There's probably a market for something that helps connect people to books/stories/media they would actually like in other languages, ideally that isn't already commonly available translated.
Looks nice! I like the simplicity of snapping a picture as the ingestion mechanism. If you want to take it to the next level, consider allowing folks to record a video as well.
yes it could definitely work for other languages! I started with the niche of Chinese since that's what I'm learning, but if there is demand for other languages I'll build that too.
yeah I used LingQ in the past. It's a great tool and was part of my inspiration for this. Realized I needed a tool that worked for physical texts though, so I built Readly.
> 1. Buy a book you genuinely want to read (if not genuinely interested, you will lose motivation).
This has been my issue. There's a really small set of novels I enjoy. The better (but not good) recommendations have been to re-read something I've already read as a translation. I have never re-read a novel in my life and I'm not sure it being a frustrating experience would make it more appealing.
There's probably a market for something that helps connect people to books/stories/media they would actually like in other languages, ideally that isn't already commonly available translated.
Looks nice! I like the simplicity of snapping a picture as the ingestion mechanism. If you want to take it to the next level, consider allowing folks to record a video as well.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! Video would definitely be cool, might build it at some point.
As someone who is on HSK 6, this looks really helpful. Thank you for spending time with the Chinese language. It is really fun to learn.
How specific is this for Chinese? Could it also be adapted for any other language with a non-Latin alphabet?
yes it could definitely work for other languages! I started with the niche of Chinese since that's what I'm learning, but if there is demand for other languages I'll build that too.
Reminds me of LingQ. Though, Lingq require importing raw text.
yeah I used LingQ in the past. It's a great tool and was part of my inspiration for this. Realized I needed a tool that worked for physical texts though, so I built Readly.