szamvan Tetraglot Newbie Hungary subasub.com/ Joined 5538 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Dutch, EnglishC1, German Studies: Italian
| Message 1 of 10 08 November 2015 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
Hi all,
I made a webapp to see foreign language words in context.
www.subasub.com
You are able to search for a specific word in a huge collection of dialogues from movies.
This way you can see the usage patterns of a word, which is usually a lot more than what a
dictionary definition could convey.
It's pretty new and there are probably a couple of rough edges and lots of features that
could be added. Still, I would be very happy to get some feedback from you guys, or maybe
requests for languages that you would like to see included. :)
Cheers,
Larion
EDIT:
One feature I've been thinking of is an export function to Anki with fill-in-the-gaps style
flashcards. I actually used flashcards that way anyways (while learning Dutch at least) to
get more of a feel for the way words are used.
Edited by szamvan on 08 November 2015 at 11:36pm
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 2 of 10 09 November 2015 at 1:05am | IP Logged |
I like it! I tried the Dutch version and it looks very good. I'll put it to a much longer
test. Thanks very much.
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guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 4095 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin
| Message 3 of 10 09 November 2015 at 8:57am | IP Logged |
I've tried a few words here in there, and at first glance it seems to be a great tool!! I
like to see words in contexts when I study them, and it's true that it's not always easy
to find tool for them, especially when learning various languages. Thanks a lot! I'll
recommend it to my students!
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szamvan Tetraglot Newbie Hungary subasub.com/ Joined 5538 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Dutch, EnglishC1, German Studies: Italian
| Message 4 of 10 09 November 2015 at 11:52am | IP Logged |
tommus wrote:
I like it! I tried the Dutch version and it looks very good. I'll put it to
a much longer
test. Thanks very much.
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guiguixx1 wrote:
I've tried a few words here in there, and at first glance it seems to be
a great tool!! I
like to see words in contexts when I study them, and it's true that it's not always easy
to find tool for them, especially when learning various languages. Thanks a lot! I'll
recommend it to my students!
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Thanks a lot for the encouraging words!
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Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4124 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian
| Message 5 of 10 09 November 2015 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
Great tool.
If you ever need any help, please contact me
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szamvan Tetraglot Newbie Hungary subasub.com/ Joined 5538 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Dutch, EnglishC1, German Studies: Italian
| Message 6 of 10 10 November 2015 at 11:44pm | IP Logged |
Cristianoo wrote:
Great tool.
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Thanks, I am actually just figuring it out whether there is any demand for this tool. If not,
I can still use it for my own language learning endeavours :)
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szamvan Tetraglot Newbie Hungary subasub.com/ Joined 5538 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Dutch, EnglishC1, German Studies: Italian
| Message 7 of 10 13 November 2015 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
Update: I added support for basic translations. You can choose between English, German, Dutch,
French, Hungarian, Spanish and Italian. It is not perfect, but still it can help to give you
some basic idea to understand the dialogues. It can be turned off in case you want a more
immersive learning experience.
Also you can know search for complete phrases, not only single words (well you could actually
do that earlier too, but it didn't work that well). A particular use case would be to learn
English phrasal verbs or other idiomatic expressions.
Thanks again for all the positive feedback :)
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szamvan Tetraglot Newbie Hungary subasub.com/ Joined 5538 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, Dutch, EnglishC1, German Studies: Italian
| Message 8 of 10 06 May 2016 at 11:37pm | IP Logged |
News since last year:
Now the texts are in parallel so you can select a language pair, search for a word and see
the
dialogues in both languages. Here is a picture:
There are two new languages that I added last week:
Portuguese and
Russian.
Also it is now possible to hear the words by clicking on the sound icon.
Happy to hear what you think and any suggestions/ideas/criticism.
Edited by szamvan on 07 May 2016 at 1:21pm
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