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Show HN: Google translate replacement for language learners

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Show HN: Google translate replacement for language learners
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Hi HN, I'm Musab and I'm building Manalect. Find TL;DR at the end.Most language apps fall short for me in two ways:1. They’re not personalized enough. I get taught things I don’t care about, things that are too hard for me, and things I already know.
2. They don’t teach that well. I keep seeing question types where my brain does almost no work to figure out the answer, therefore learn nothing.I think the biggest reason they're not personalized enough is that they don't have a detailed enough representation of a language. Most apps have efficient review scheduling for the words you learn. But if you make the mistake of using "play" instead of "played" they're not able to identify that as a component that should have its own schedule for review. And if you don't track that, it essentially depends on luck whether a person reviews that information before forgetting it again.Essentially language isn't just made up of words, but also different forms, conjugations, phrases, grammar, and a lot more components.But mapping out the basic units in full detail isn't enough. It's also very important to know how those basic units relate to each other. Because of course some units share a lot in…

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