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Very cool! This is something I was always looking for when I was studying Chinese--recommended texts to read, based on my ability, and with mouseover translations by word/sentence. Now that I'm about to get into German, I'll keep this on my radar.

Are you planning to integrate with dictionaries for placeholders, and let users modify/improve what's most critical?

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I actually started by machine-translating everything, but I think the sparseness of the articles is better b/c it feels like a call to action to complete them, versus already having the English or Japanese in place.

Also, the default MT was terrible, and in many cases, the sentences made no sense.

WRT German, I'd love to do it, it's just I don't know which articles from which sites I should pick to use.

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