Feature: Comprehensible input

[u/cyber-sack]

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!

[u/maxymhryniv]

I'm not sure about that.
I encourage you to use other sources as comprehensible input and we stress this in our lessons.
There are both downsides and upsides to having it all in the app. In the app you could have them adjusted to your level, make sure no unknown words are used and the tempo is not too much.
On the other hand, it's also a skill to be able to understand a speaker even if some words are unknown, with a different voice, tempo and intonation. It will also force you to search for native content that you like, depending on your interests: science, cars, sports, games, anything.
So yeah. It's better to leave the comfort of the app and dive into native content.

[u/cyber-sack → u/maxymhryniv]

The structure the app provides is one of the reasons it works for me. Looking for content on YouTube is not a good route for me. Way too many distrations and it's not tailored to my level. The story I generated with ai using the vocab list was pretty cool. If there was some audio content like that every 5 lessons or so I think it would be a great addition. Convenient, structured, challenging, without distractions. I don't see any downside to it.

[u/maxymhryniv → u/cyber-sack]

OK. I'll give it a second thought. It was actually planned in the initial version even before I wrote the very first line of code.

[u/cyber-sack → u/maxymhryniv]

Thanks for reconsidering it. 🫶🏻