The UX doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s totally separate from the movie itself, I have to click any one line to see a translation (which doesn’t mean I’d want to “save it), clicking a line doesn’t pause the actual movie which I had to start elsewhere... I’m failing to see how this is an effective language teaching tool.
I think there’s something there in leveraging movies/tv to teach language, as well as leveraging the existing subtitles. But it probably would need a deeper understanding of the languages themselves... for example being able to even map a given word to the translation versus an entire sentence (and perhaps being able to expand further).
That said, one of my best friends growing up learned English at age 11 by watching American TV. She was from Poland, and had no formal teaching. Several years later not only did she know English fluently, she has a perfect American accent. It helps that she was young and motivated (and really smart).
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The UX doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s totally separate from the movie itself, I have to click any one line to see a translation (which doesn’t mean I’d want to “save it), clicking a line doesn’t pause the actual movie which I had to start elsewhere... I’m failing to see how this is an effective language teaching tool.
I think there’s something there in leveraging movies/tv to teach language, as well as leveraging the existing subtitles. But it probably would need a deeper understanding of the languages themselves... for example being able to even map a given word to the translation versus an entire sentence (and perhaps being able to expand further).
That said, one of my best friends growing up learned English at age 11 by watching American TV. She was from Poland, and had no formal teaching. Several years later not only did she know English fluently, she has a perfect American accent. It helps that she was young and motivated (and really smart).
Please read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17627899
The app is working differently because it solves a different problem. It actually need a deeper understanding of the language as you just wrote.