englishcat

it sounds like you are at a more advanced stage of learning Chinese, you have moved past simple vocab building and are focusing on flow and fluency reading. For your use case, that 'inverse' approach (Chinese with English safety nets) is definitely superior for pattern-matching, it's a different problem set, but a very valid one.

Appreciate your feedback.

Comment · 10 months ago

This is quite a great idea, as a native Chinese speaker, i want to say this is the way very similar how we learned Chinese when we were kids.

On the other hand, the Chinese writing system is logographic (or ideographic), unlike the English system which is phonetic. The most basic characters, such as 日 (sun), 月 (moon), and 山 (mountain), are essentially graphics (or pictures) of the objects themselves. that makes them very suitable for being represented by images. The emoji you are using is also very good.

I believe this method should be very effective for beginners in Chinese. However, once you have mastered the basic Chinese characters, you can learn about the structure of Chinese characters and then continue reading more materials to expand your vocabulary.

The real challenge is to expand your vocabulary through extensive reading, i'm actually working on a tool to solve this specific problem (https://lingoku.ai/learn-chinese), If you are reading English, it will insert Chinese text for you, if your are reading Chinese text, it will translate the text from Chinese to English then inject Chinese words into the translated text, thus improving your vocabulary while reading.

Comment · 10 months ago

Hope our product helps your learning journey, enjoy! Any feedback is welcome.

Comment · 10 months ago

Fair point, the UI was partly AI-assisted, and the design is not our strongest area at the moment but something we are actively improving. Appreciate the feedback.

Comment · 10 months ago

Thanks for your kind words, yes, but you can try the free version first, and if it's not enough, you can check the pricing plans if you like.

Comment · 10 months ago

Thanks for pointing this out. You're absolutely right that 'Zero Privacy Trace' was a bit too absolute.

I’ve just updated the website to be more precise: we use enterprise-grade APIs where they said data is not used for training by default, and we don't log any original content on our own servers.

We also only send the specific text snippets needed for processing to minimize exposure. I really appreciate the feedback, it helps make the project better!

Comment · 10 months ago

I can totally understand your concerns.

At the moment, Lingoku browser extension does send text to LLms for processing, we don't sell user data, but i agree that simply saying 'trust us' isn't sufficient.

Supporting local LLM is something we are actively considering, though there are still real constraints on the user experience.