I hit a plateau with my learning, having used Duolingo + tutor. It was only until I tried to read a book that I felt like I was making real progress.
Highlighting words in Kindle, exporting them to Anki, then feeding back my progress to my tutor was fiddly and not a good use of my time. Also practicing my speaking once a day wasn't enough.
So I built an app to help me. This app will:
1. Generate Spanish short stories using Claude pitched to your level, narrated with ElevenLabs
2. Every word/phrase you highlight becomes a flashcard. Flashcards use spaced repetition - words you find difficult come up more often per review
3. Chat with Lucía - a turn based conversation who is prompted with the words/phrases you have saved down
You get a use of all the features before subscribing (1 short story, 1 round of flashcards, 1 minute with Lucía), then it's a 7 day trial.
Would love to get some feedback, especially on the AI conversation, as that's the most challenging part of the app I've found so far.
How do you generate stories that match the respective level? I tried generating stories in Chinese (which I would say has a large learner base as well) and it never really worked except for something like A1/A2. Also, recognizing which level a story is did not work for me.
Edit:
And a second question: do you support exporting the studies vocabulary as Anki or csv/…?
Neat! I'm working on a similar thing but mine is not as far along, and slightly more focused on what I call "subtitled reading" (interleaving source and target language lines of text).
Small UI feedback: the WORD LOOKUP sheet has UI design disease, i.e. imo too much text. I'd drop "WORD LOOKUP" and "CURRENTLY SAVING". Also behind the latter the current word is repeated (it's already the title of the sheet), so I'd drop that too.
I hit a plateau with my learning, having used Duolingo + tutor. It was only until I tried to read a book that I felt like I was making real progress. Highlighting words in Kindle, exporting them to Anki, then feeding back my progress to my tutor was fiddly and not a good use of my time. Also practicing my speaking once a day wasn't enough.
So I built an app to help me. This app will: 1. Generate Spanish short stories using Claude pitched to your level, narrated with ElevenLabs 2. Every word/phrase you highlight becomes a flashcard. Flashcards use spaced repetition - words you find difficult come up more often per review 3. Chat with Lucía - a turn based conversation who is prompted with the words/phrases you have saved down
You get a use of all the features before subscribing (1 short story, 1 round of flashcards, 1 minute with Lucía), then it's a 7 day trial.
Would love to get some feedback, especially on the AI conversation, as that's the most challenging part of the app I've found so far.