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Linguican — Learn languages with music
Linguician is the best way to learn languages through music and lyrics. Use our amazing language immersion software to learn Spanish around songs from Enrique Iglesias and others!
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I'm a huge fan of language learning tools. I see myself putting this in the rotation with other apps.
Exciting stuff! Gave it a try and loved it :) Always looking for a new and interesting way to learn languages and this is such an innovative idea :) Good luck guys!
Nah, I don't get it. How would I know which words are translation of song and if somebody get that, how do they know to make a sentence out of it? While you are talking about learning a language and not vocabulary. Right?
@mrwullah what you learn on linguician is the following: Pronounciation, Understanding real life language (language immersion) and of course new vocabularies. Through the music it will be much easier for you to remember the vocabularies. I hope this answer can help clarifying.
@robert_eiter The real question is: how does an individual decide a particular word is translation of a word sung in the song?
@mrwullah it is principle a MC game. so we mark one word or word chunk in the lyric and the user needs to pick the correct word out of 4 available options
@robert_eiter This helps now. I didn't get it. Maybe it can be included in first time tutorial for the user who logs in. Just like pop-up explainers for each feature. :)
@ericnord6 yes, that is true - unfortuanetely we are not yet bugfree today. I apologize for that. Please also take into account that it was by surprise that I found out we got hunted today ;)
The idea is awesome and really fun. I really like rock songs and if I can learn English in the process it will be a really nice. Great job!!
I think this is a brilliant idea, I've been using Duolingo for French for a while now and I absolutely love it, but I definitely need and want more than it can offer. Your app is exactly what I'm missing on Duolingo, and in this light, my question is: How about making Linguician a mobile app (preferably Android first:-D)? Or let's say, are you planning to do this in some more or less near future?
Hi @o_annenko - thank you for this great feedback. Yes, we would love to build an iOS app. But so far we have not raised any money and Linguician is completely bootstrapped. We are a small team working very hard on an idea that is far more complex than what we have imagined when we started it. But I hope that by the end of the year we will have native apps available. Until then you can use Linguician on the browser of your phone ;)
I love seeing creative ideas that make language learning more accessible. I'll definitely be trying this out 🎧
Congratulations. Interested to find what CMS have you used for user registration?
@robert_eiter Thanks. Once you're out of beta drop me a message, I would curate this on collegestash.info
hola @sergio_ramos_montoya! agradecemos mucho a tu comentario. en principio nuestra plataforma ya esta optimizado para el uso en tu telefono movil. Lo puedes usar desde el browser de tu movil - para el app nativo todavia vamos a necesitar un tiempo!
Hello Product Hunt Community!
I just woke up after a couple of baby earthquakes last night here in Santiago and found out we are hunted on Product Hunt! What a surprise! So let’s do that now! Linguician was started around a year and 4 months ago by my co-founder Alex and myself. Our mission is to change the way educational software is build – from 40% gamification at Duolingo we want to move to 80% gamification at Linguician. In our view learning anything should no longer feel like pain but like quality time. If you want to read more about our mission – I wrote a blog about this: https://medium.com/@EiterRobert/...
So let’s quickly introduce Linguician then: Linguician is a platform that uses music streaming (currently YouTube, maybe a different Streaming Service in the future) and licensed lyrics (by LyricFind) as language learning content. The user can learn new words while playing with a commercial/popular song. We are collecting data about user input and in the near future we want to use Machine Learning Algorithms to adjust the difficulty to the level of the user.
That’s about it. – So since we are already here at Product Hunt please let us know what you think about it! We appreciate any comment and review of our platform!
@robert_eiter @eiterrobert I love the songs you selected for learning German . How do you pick them? Do you have native speakers for all languages? Great job guys! Let me know if you need any help from a fellow Austrian with solid growth-hacking skills in Silicon Valley
@e_reder we are mostly using the spotify API for choosing songs. the API comes with a wide range of parameters and we focus on speed and popularity inter alia. by now with all the intelligence we have on that we could tomorrow also launch an automated DJ bot ;) - we plan to use Machine Learning in the near future to adjust the songs displayed to the music preferences of the user -
whenever we see there is demand for a language combination we increase the available number of songs on our platform - here also we work with a bunch of APIs but have manual freelance translators working for us - since currently no API would be good enough to deliver high quality (although this may change in the next few years - compare it to self driving cars, at one moment the code will be cracked). The freelancers are based around the world and always translate into their native language.
thanks a lot for offering your help - that is of course always very much appreciated. feel free to reach out to me at any time: robert.eiter@linguician.com
This is a great idea! I tried a German song and it works well. I would love to use this for Chinese and Korean, too!
How quickly are you able to add new content? Would you consider doing this for TV shows?
@banada - Hi, thanks for your comment. We are very quickly able to add new content - more or less within 3-5 days. Yes, we would be really interested in doing it for TV shows as well. The software works just as fine for any sort of language immersion content. We decided to go ahead and start with lyrics, but this does not mean we will limit ourselves to this. In case you want to follow up with me on this feel free to reach out to me via email at any time: robert.eiter@linguician.com
Have you considered making this a Chrome extension? I can see myself using this often (and would pay!), but I would prefer to watch YouTube videos on YouTube, and answer questions in a Pocket-style popup window.
Keep up the great work! :)
that's actually a really good idea @banada - no so far we have not considered this. but we will denitely think about your suggestion in the future!
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