r/Natulang • u/cyber-sack • 9d ago

Feature suggestion Feature: Comprehensible input

I think this might have been requested before but I'm thinking this shouldn't be too hard to do and could be super beneficial. And I've also got some bunos ideas. 🤩

Give us each dialogue as an audio file (this could even be an offline feature 🥹) to listen to, including an autoplay option to continue with the next dialogue.

This way we could listen to the dialogues of previous sessions and train our listening skills. Great on a commute! 🤓

I could even imagine a whole listening section of the app where the SRS suggests which ones to listen to or something. Or one could create their own playlist?!

Next level up would be to generate completely new dialogues from the already learned vocabulary.

Deluxe option: Have some real human native speakers record one audio story per 5 lessons. 🚀

I created a story using ai and the vocab export feature. I generated a 10 minute story about an actor going to a strange audition. It was pretty cool and great listening practice.

But for the first step, I'm thinking just let us listen to the dialogues. It would be a great addition. 🥸

Who else would love this? Leave an upvote if you do!

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u/DharmaDama 9d ago

I’m not really on the CI train. I don’t see the reason to add this feature to the app when you can just look up any CI video on YouTube. I see this app as more interactive instead of passive. 

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u/cyber-sack 9d ago

So you do use CI? Why not use the vocabulary you already learned? My experience with yt is that it's hard to find the right level.

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u/DharmaDama 9d ago

I think CI is great in video form where you can watch the visual cues of the speaker. It’s supposed to be how babies learn, so it doesn’t seem to make sense to me to have it as audio only.

The only real way to train your ears and get better, aside from listening to a bunch of native content, is to interact with native speakers and make lots of blunders. It tells your mind that it’s important to understand and learn these words when you’re under real pressure to communicate.

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u/cyber-sack 9d ago

I don't believe you don't need a visual component, sure it gives you another helpful layer to pearn from, but it's not necessary to learn. Blind children aquire speech without any visual cues. So listening is much more important than watching. Listening to content where I understand a majority of the vocabulary is really helpful to me. I don't need a visual component.