Hello everyone!

I'm a native Romanian speaker offering online Romanian lessons for beginners and intermediate learners, as well as those who simply want to improve their speaking skills.

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I built a free eBook reader that helps you learn Spanish! 📖 🇪🇸

It weaves Spanish words, phrases and sentences into an English text (called a Diglot Weave).

This technique was proposed in 1968 in a paper called 'Some Outlandish Proposals For The Teaching Of Foreign Languages' (Burling 1968). We now have the resources to do it right, and for entire books, so I thought I'd give it a go :)

Available for free here: https://melange-reader.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255040/Lets_Learn_Korean_Hangul/

I am a Translation student, and I am interested in learning about the experiences of people in the translation field.
In your opinion, what is the most challenging part of being a translator, and what strategies do you use to deal with these challenges?
I would appreciate hearing your experiences and perspectives.
Thank you!

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Hey! I’m studying localization and foreignization in my translation class, and I wanted to know what you think about them.
Personally, I think localization makes things easier to understand, but foreignization helps us learn about other cultures.
Which one do you think is better? Or does it depend on the text?

Hi everyone! I’m currently studying translation and working on a small project about localization challenges.

I’m curious how professional translators handle idioms or culture-بased references (like local humor, regional expressions, or historical allusions) that simply don't exist in the target language. Do you usually go for a functional equivalent, add an explanatory note, or try to adapt it completely to fit the target culture?

I would love to hear about a specific tricky phrase or sentence you've had to translate recently and how you solved it. Your real-world experiences would be super helpful for my studies.

Hello all, I would like to introduce you my portuguese verb conjugation app called Conjulejo!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.conjulejo.app

The idea came to me during my journey learning Spanish 🇪🇸. I leaned on some existing apps to help with my studies, and although they were hugely useful, I kept feeling that the experience of this type of app could be improved and refined. After some research and finding an apparent lack of good options for Portuguese, I decided to give it a shot and build my own version of this type of app.

The pun (Conjugação + Azulejo 🔷 = Conjulejo) came along the way. As a homage to Portuguese tiles, I wanted the app to be not just practical but also thematic and aesthetically pleasing.

It covers both the European 🇵🇹 and Brazilian 🇧🇷 variants, with 10 different drill types across 4 categories: flashcards, writing, association, and multiple choice, so it can fit anyone's preferences and adapt to their learning style. It also has timed answers and sprint sessions to add a bit more challenge.⏱️

I packed in a lot of quality of life features ⚙️ too : personalized lists 📝, favorite verbs 🩵, verb filters 🔽 and training presets, so you can change what shows up in your verb pool without touching your lists, and quickly switch between drill modes. It includes 32 tenses (including haver vs. ter compound variations), and as a more advanced features, pronominal conjugations (-lhe, -se, -a/o/as/os forms), passive voice conjugation and periphrases, adding up to more than 18,000 verbs when everything is enabled.

So if you have any friends currently learning Portuguese and struggling to master verb conjugation (dealing with irregular verbs like ser, ir, and pôr can be daunting at first), or even if it applies to you, I urge you to share the app link and give it a try! 😊

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Something I kept running into while learning Spanish: vocabulary apps never tell you where their word list came from. You get thousands of entries with no way to know whether any of it matches where you actually are, and no end point. It is an infinite scroll of words.

So when I built mine I made the list finite on purpose. Every word comes from the DELE A1-B1 range, which is the official Spanish proficiency exam. 1,250 words, each tagged with its level. The point is that you can finish it, and that each word is there for a reason somebody qualified decided on, rather than because it turned up in a frequency corpus.

The three things that actually helped me, in case they are useful even if you never touch the app:

Finite sets beat infinite ones. Knowing there are 340 A1 words and you have done 200 is motivating in a way that "3,000 words available" never is.

Example sentences are not optional. A bare translation teaches you a label. The sentence teaches you where the word goes. I made this mandatory for every entry.

Automatic re-testing of your errors matters more than the drilling itself. I used to re-learn the same twenty words for months and feel productive. A mistake notebook that resurfaces them without me choosing is the single feature that changed my retention.

The app is DELE Voca Dojo, free on Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.junhwiahn.spanishworddojo

It is Android only, ad supported (and the ad placement during quizzes is currently bad, which I am fixing), and vocabulary only - no grammar or conversation. If your bottleneck is not vocabulary, it will not help you.

Curious whether anyone else here deliberately limited their study material rather than maximising it, and whether it worked.

Traveling isn’t something I do often; however, when I do, one of the most difficult things about it is communicating with people who don’t understand my language. I have used some translation apps and although they help, I really hate having to wait until the translation is done after each time I communicate.

Are there any apps today that allow smooth conversations rather than making them turn into an exchange of sentences with a phone?

Which real-time voice translation app would you recommend using?

I will be spending some time in Morocco to learn Darija.

I know only the very basics.

The aim will be to go somewhere where English is not spoken as much to force me into situations where I have to learn.

I will be without a teacher while I am there, but I have one more lesson online before I go where I will be bringing words/phrases I would like to learn.

You guys have any ideas as to what phrases I can quickly learn with my teacher now before I go to make it easier to learn the language on the spot while I'm out there?

Phrase such as:

• How do you say this/What is this called in Darija (likely with pointing involved).

• Can you repeat that slower please/I don't understand.

• Can you write that down for me to see

• What does that mean

• Is my pronounciation correct

I'm sure there are others but I can't think of any!

And has anyone tried this before? Or have experience immigrating to a new country and having to work (for example) without any prior knowledge of the language - and having to improvise?

Any suggestions/experiences are welcome!

Rose-colored glasses - to talk about a reality that doesn't exist, a person who always see the best things in someone but can't see the bad ones, she is "looking through red-colored glasses'
Rose tinted goggles - it also talks about a reality that doesn't exist, but now it refers to the past stuff, someone who thinks that something old is good 'cuz is nostalgic, when it's not, so it is just his rose-tinted goggles.

Here we can see that they have differents contexts, right? But I've seen many websites saying that we can use both because they have same meaning in the end, but others are saying the opposite, that they have differents contexts and one we can use to talk about being delulu with something or someone without seeing the bad things, and one we use only when talking about nostalgic stuff, which one is true?

Can I use both or do they really have different contexts like that?

hey guys,

im learning serbian right now and i have a problem with finding websites with tv shows or movies in serbian with subtitles and also music. can someone give me any suggestions?

hvala!

I recently retired from a long career in technical documentation and software design, much of it centered around structured authoring systems like DITA and DocBook.

After relocating to Finland for my wife’s work, I started taking Finnish classes and quickly realized I wanted a language-learning tool that behaved more like a structured content system than a fixed language app.

That project became Linguatrain:

Linguatrain on GitHub

Linguatrain is a CLI-based, open-source language drilling engine built around one core idea:

The engine controls drill flow. The content controls the language behavior.

Instead of hardcoding grammar rules or lessons into the software itself, Linguatrain uses YAML-based content packs to define:

• vocabulary drills

• listening exercises

• shadowing/speaking practice

• verb conjugations

• grammar transformations

• worksheet-style exercises

• lightweight SRS review

It also supports:

• text-to-speech (Piper)

• speech recognition (Whisper)

• spoken vs written forms

• configurable localization/UI layers

• language-agnostic drill structures

So if your native language is:

• English and you’re learning Finnish

• Spanish learning French

• German learning Japanese

…the engine stays the same. Only the content changes.

One thing that makes Linguatrain different from apps like Duolingo is that it intentionally separates the learning engine from the learning material itself. The YAML files contain all the grammar behavior and lesson logic explicitly, which makes the system very flexible for teachers, tutors, and advanced learners.

The downside is also the upside:

I provide almost no built-in content.

Most of my own material comes from:

• my Finnish textbook

• worksheets from my teacher

• self-created drills

• converted Anki decks

So Linguatrain is probably best thought of as a “language-learning toolkit” rather than a polished consumer app.

I’d genuinely love feedback from serious language learners, teachers, or anyone interested in structured learning systems.

I've decided to double down on my English and give Promova (alongside a bunch of other apps) a try. All of them offer a 1-week trial.
Promova does the same, promising a 1-week trial and sending a notice to cancel on day 5. What they really do is charge you right away from day 1 for a whole year, completely misleading you in their app.

I don't mind paying for an app that gives results, but this one acts like a scam app right away - it clearly gives you a concrete promise, then tries to charge you on completely different terms. What also helps them is that all competitors offer trials, so if you want to compare a bunch of apps, you'll get used to that and can click through.

I've contacted support, their reply was "well, you clicked the button, not us, we'll not be refunding anything, you can try to get your refund through Apple, good luck". That's a scammer's response, not a company with good intentions.

Don't even install.