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Hashimi
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 Message 17 of 34
01 April 2010 at 11:24pm | IP Logged 

@Peter Carroll

As Sprachprofi said, it will be helpful if you add the option to comment on texts, so one can correct mistakes, or add any other useful notes.

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sik0fewl
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 Message 18 of 34
02 April 2010 at 5:06am | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
Badly needs the ability to comment on a text or send posters a message though, because
I'm loath to record something that contains mistakes, but wouldn't want to submit a
recording that doesn't match the text.


Yes, this was one of my firsts thoughts. The ability to comment on the sentences and the recordings would be very nice.

A voting system for the quality of the recordings might be nice, too.

When somebody posts a recording, they should also be able to attach a comment to that recording, noting if they made a correction, noting certain emphasis they made, etc.
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peterjcarroll
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 Message 19 of 34
02 April 2010 at 6:50am | IP Logged 
Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I've added them to our TODO list.

Peter
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Astrophel
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 Message 20 of 34
03 April 2010 at 7:00pm | IP Logged 
Whoa - Peter J. Carroll? THE Peter J. Carroll, the author? Is that you?

Never knew you were into learning foreign languages! Genius idea, too, by the way.
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WANNABEAFREAK
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 Message 21 of 34
05 April 2010 at 6:27am | IP Logged 
I suggest you have some sought of category system.

I'm annoyed to see "hello my name is john" recordings. These 1 liners just tick me off some how.
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peterjcarroll
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 Message 22 of 34
05 April 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged 
@Astrophel: No, that's not me. I'm also not a football coach or an actor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carroll

@WANNABEAFREAK: We are looking at tags and categories but we haven't decided how we want to approach them yet.
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el_sándwich
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 Message 23 of 34
05 April 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged 
@peterjcarrol: Perhaps you could add a word count? Then people could quickly scan for "1 liners" (e.g. 12 words) vs. lengthy text (e.g. 120 words).

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cordelia0507
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 Message 24 of 34
05 April 2010 at 11:09pm | IP Logged 
Peter, this is ENORMOUSLY useful, I can't even tell you!
So impressed that you thought of this and went ahead and set it up.
No doubt it will become a great hit!

And I am sure everyone realises that this is in Beta (or?) and that you probably have limited time to work on it. So the ideas and suggestions cannot be implemented overnight. People need to be patient and hang in there and continue supporting the site.

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Do you need tips on sites to go to recruit new users?
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Obviously people with a wide range of mother tongues are needed to make it take off -- so that the "demand and supply" is reasonably balanced for those who study ESL and people studying other languages, big and small. People here might be able to help with tips on specialised sites. Let us know.

Please can people not support this great project without worrying about copyright and nonsense? What has that got to do with anything? The site isn't even using ads at the time; it's clearly an enthusiast project right now. Don't abuse it, but don't run the errands of big business either. Knowledge is power, power to the people. Why would you even want to put copyrighted material on it - I am sure most people know where to go for that.



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