Comment by songzme | Hacker News Reader

Comment by songzme | Hacker News Reader

When my wife and I first met, we tried to build a language learning app (don't sign up, we stopped working on it) - https://llip.io/landing/

To get users, we started a meetup group to teach people Korean. https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-Korean-Language-and-Culture-...

We stopped working on the app, but continued with the meetup group (3 years now and almost 1000 members).

Our conclusion is that the most effective way to learn a new language is a simple commitment to showing up regularly to language events. Meetup.com or your local public library will usually have regular (and free) events. Once you have that commitment, picking a great app will help expedite your learning.

Excited to see an open source language learning app!

What if you live in a region where you can't people speaking or learning the language you want to learn?

That's what I originally thought too (couldn't find an existing group) but shamelessly I started one with my elementary grade Korean. Students much better than me came and I was able to ask them for help. Have you thought about starting a group at a local library or coffeeshop?

I've had a lot of success using a Discord server to learn French. The big gaps in my self-learning knowledge were pronunciation and conversation. (It's one thing to be able to read/write the language at your own pace but different to be able to "think" and react in that language in conversation.) Discord chat rooms are great and thanks to the voice channels I've almost got the 'r' down. Most of the servers even have user "flair" so you can let others know if you'd like to be corrected on your mistakes or if you prefer others let them slide.

Great landing page. I’m working in the language learning space but lack the design skills.

buy one from themeforest.com or some other landing page url places for $20, then you save your time.

Then spend your time on the content to answer the questions your users are gonna have. Provide screenshots of your app.

If you are a self starter, I wouldn't recommend building an entire landing page yourself.

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