Show HN: ReadPlusOne – Spanish stories built around the words you're learning

5 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by brandonc7

6 Comments

darraghmckay

3 hours ago

This is great, I just went through the first lesson. As someone trying to learn Spanish I have been putting off getting Claude to write a short story for me daily, but this is better with the repeated repetition and built in translate/clues.

I wish you could highlight multiple words to translate them though, because sometimes it's not just one word that gives the meaning, but the combination.

brandonc7

3 hours ago

Thank you, I’m glad you like it. I actually was never planning to add translation support but I added some after user feedback. But I’ll add multi-word translation onto my roadmap.

LuminousWzrd

4 hours ago

Might be nice to make the quiz easier to find on the main page. It took me some scrolling and looking before I saw it, and, and maybe make it accessible without creating a user account. I'd definitely do the free quiz, but seeing a sign in screen so early on is kind of off putting.

brandonc7

3 hours ago

That makes sense, I do need to calibrate and store recorded words for the user in the database after that. Do you think a user would be more off put after taking the time to do a quiz, to then realize they need to create an account?

idbnstra

2 hours ago

are you considering adding more languages soon? i’d love this for french!

brandonc7

5 minutes ago

Spanish is the current focus, I want to add more grammar features, so stories help target the readers grammar weak points. But after that I am planning to expand to other languages and most likely other Latin based languages as it will be the easiest to expand support to.