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New comment by posh_somme in "Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material"

posh_somme — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:51:26 +0000

Yeah, all in one apps are now getting built every other week

New comment by posh_somme in "Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material"

posh_somme — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:50:53 +0000

I've been learning Japanese for just over a year now, and its a community that might have the highest concentration of amazing free learning apps with sentence mining capabilities, many of which do things very similarly to what you're building. Have you tried some of these?

asbplayer Manatan Yomine Anki Miner AnimeCards Nagare

These are just for video, there are other similar solutions for games, manga and ebooks, and some of them are all in one

New comment by posh_somme in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

posh_somme — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:38:57 +0000

The Japanese learning community has wholesale adopted the Krashen school of thought, tons of us learn almost exclusively by comprehensible input, myself included. I spent about 50 or so hours on grammar at the start, a list of 1,500 words and the rest has been purely reading and watching what I want and playing video games. At about 1000 hours total since last June I'm able to read a lot of everyday Japanese without much difficulty. I plan on taking N2 at the end of the year.

New comment by posh_somme in "The light is off. War is over"

posh_somme — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:55:02 +0000

This is very typical Twitter usage. Few people actually have blogs.