Register  Login  Active Topics  Maps  

Readlang, my language reading site

 Language Learning Forum : Learning Techniques, Methods & Strategies Post Reply
131 messages over 17 pages: << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 15 ... 16 17 Next >>
Gemuse
Senior Member
Germany
Joined 4042 days ago

818 posts - 1189 votes 
Speaks: English
Studies: German

 
 Message 113 of 131
15 January 2014 at 11:52pm | IP Logged 
I like the site, will definitely use it!!!
1 person has voted this message useful



SteveRidout
Diglot
Groupie
Spain
readlang.com
Joined 4242 days ago

65 posts - 121 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish

 
 Message 114 of 131
23 March 2014 at 9:58am | IP Logged 
Thought you might be interested in this blog post about Readlang:

Readlang - My Language Learning Web-App

Warning, it's pretty long, and details the story of how I spent the last 16 months developing it, including the first round of feedback which I received on this forum, and how after all that time it's earned a grand
total of $1045. Nevertheless, I still haven't given up, and continue to work full time on improving it.

Edited by SteveRidout on 23 March 2014 at 11:27am

5 persons have voted this message useful



Crush
Tetraglot
Senior Member
ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5825 days ago

1622 posts - 2299 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto
Studies: Basque

 
 Message 115 of 131
23 March 2014 at 8:17pm | IP Logged 
Cool, i just read through the entire blog post (and a good portion of the comments at the Hacker News site). It is a bit depressing to see that your total revenue barely breaks $1,000. I definitely think even $19.99 is pretty low (less than $2 a month) and as someone mentioned in the comments a donate button might be worth implementing.

I have fallen away from the site a bit as it was just hard to read longer texts on the computer, but going back to my account it still feels really fast and makes me wish i had a tablet. I'm still not completely sold on the google translations, but for the languages where it's available, the dictionary in the sidebar is nice. Btw, is being able to add new dictionaries a recent addition? It's a nice feature, i just wish more dictionaries like Wordreference that could break down words (for example, pulling "hablar" from "hablas").
1 person has voted this message useful



SteveRidout
Diglot
Groupie
Spain
readlang.com
Joined 4242 days ago

65 posts - 121 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish

 
 Message 116 of 131
23 March 2014 at 11:53pm | IP Logged 
Thanks, yeah it's not much I know, but then again 16 months ago it didn't even exist, and there's a lot I can still do
to make it better and get more people using it.

I agree Google Translate isn't always perfect, and this is more of a problem for beginners who may get confused.
Once you're at a intermediate level, which you currently need to be to get the most from Readlang, you can usually
tell when the translation is wrong and you need to check the sidebar. I find that I often read whole chapters without
ever having to check the sidebar though, so for Spanish at least Google is pretty good. One caveat is that Google
sometimes doesn't seem so great at translating verb conjugations, so if you don't know your verb forms it helps to
check the WordReference sidebar regularly.
1 person has voted this message useful



Warp3
Senior Member
United States
forum_posts.asp?TID=
Joined 5495 days ago

1419 posts - 1766 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese

 
 Message 117 of 131
24 March 2014 at 1:57am | IP Logged 
I rather like the Chrome/Chromium extension (better than some of the other translator
extensions I've tried), but it doesn't seem to work on Twitter (which is one of the places I'm
most likely to use it). You click the icon and nothing opens (no drop down or anything). It
seems to work fine on other sites so far.
1 person has voted this message useful



Crush
Tetraglot
Senior Member
ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5825 days ago

1622 posts - 2299 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto
Studies: Basque

 
 Message 118 of 131
24 March 2014 at 4:44am | IP Logged 
When reading novels in Spanish i often find that it gives weird translations for more literary words. For Catalan and Basque, it's pretty awful all around. I imagine the Spanish, French, and German translations are generally pretty good though.

In the article you linked to, you mentioned something about scrolling through the wordreference definitions one by one. Was that ever implemented?

EDIT: I would also like to reiterate my desire to be able to send a donation (or perhaps buy someone else a year's subscription?)

Edited by Crush on 24 March 2014 at 4:45am

1 person has voted this message useful



SteveRidout
Diglot
Groupie
Spain
readlang.com
Joined 4242 days ago

65 posts - 121 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish

 
 Message 119 of 131
25 March 2014 at 2:02pm | IP Logged 
Hi Crush. Thanks for offering to donate, that's very generous! Here's the old donations page from back before I'd added subscriptions which is no longer linked to, and the text is out of date, but the button still works:

Donate Page (the value there is in UK pounds, and at the moment £1 is about $1.65, just warning in case you mistake it for USD and accidentally give more than expected!)

I should probably add a page for people who wish to help in various ways, whether donating, spreading the word, giving advice, etc.

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to by scrolling through the WordReference definitions, but it could be this:

Readlang For Teachers

This is a set of features I implemented for teachers and includes a presentation mode where a teacher can go step by step through each of the top 20 most translated words to review them in front of their class. Were you referring to this?

Edited by SteveRidout on 25 March 2014 at 2:03pm

1 person has voted this message useful



Crush
Tetraglot
Senior Member
ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5825 days ago

1622 posts - 2299 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto
Studies: Basque

 
 Message 120 of 131
25 March 2014 at 5:26pm | IP Logged 
SteveRidout wrote:
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to by scrolling through the WordReference definitions, but it could be this:

Readlang For Teachers

This is a set of features I implemented for teachers and includes a presentation mode where a teacher can go step by step through each of the top 20 most translated words to review them in front of their class. Were you referring to this?
Ah, i misread it the first time thinking that it was the first 20 definitions given at WordReference or something like that. Now i see.

Anyway, do you have any ideas what will come next? New features? Marketing?

EDIT: Also, what about perhaps offering "lifetime" subscriptions for, say, £50 (or £100)? Personally i much prefer paying once to a monthly or yearly plan, though i can see that in the long run it might not be sustainable. But still, £50 is currently two and a half years' subscription, i'm not sure if people are renewing their subscriptions or not.

Edited by Crush on 25 March 2014 at 5:32pm



1 person has voted this message useful



This discussion contains 131 messages over 17 pages: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17  Next >>


Post ReplyPost New Topic Printable version Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page was generated in 0.3398 seconds.


DHTML Menu By Milonic JavaScript
Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved
No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization.