Any plans to support Asian languages?
I think the value from Langliter comes from two areas:
1. The NLP processing and tooling built on top of that processing 2. Its superior mobile experience
If I just used a simple form of tokenization, I think I could very quickly deliver a superior mobile experience than what is currently available from similar apps. However, I'm not sure if PoS tagging and some of the other techniques I'm using translate to those languages or if they do, how much value they'd add to the learning process.
But it's something I'll certainly revisit if the app ends up being popular and I have the resources to do it properly.
What about support of non-latin alphabet languages? I'm learning Dari at the moment. It uses Arabic alphabets, the words are a string of alphabets, there is tenses, verbs, nouns, adjectives. It's different to English only by the alphabet used, the vocabulary and the ordering of the verbs/nouns/subject.
Is it possible for it to be opened up to third parties to contribute new languages?
Do you choose articles, then run nlp over them? How do you get dictionary results?
I really like being able to quickly and easily tag words for learning. Thanks. I'm a polyglot and completely relate to the premise of your app and system.
I used the iOS version but an curious, are these native? React Native?
And good eye, it is React Native app. I should probably look into following platform style guides eventually ( I wouldn't count UI design as a real strength on mine :-) )
And of course there are the Universal POS tags, although I'm not sure if they are precise enough for your intended purpose.
As someone living in Indonesia for about two years who has tried other apps, buying grade school books, nothing is interesting to me once the novelty wears off, and my incentives for learning more than navigational stuff and greetings is pretty much nil.
For me the real deal is in the memorize function that gives you a word plus a sentence coming from your collection of text to get some context. You get the same word-by-word translation on the sentence, you can play it out, you are not only working on your words but discovering new words from the sentences and improving your listening comprehension.