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Hi,
I created a AI-powered Japanese Language Immersion Web-app called HayaiLearn. I’ve been building it for the last 2 years.
What makes it different from other immersion tools (eg. language reactor, Migaku, etc.)?
It’s a web-app so it means it can be used on any device with a browser
The entire immersion experience is much more seamless. When a video is imported and processed, it will already have all the AI explanations, grammar breakdown, translation, word lookups.
Sentence mining is way simpler because you just click on a single button and it’s mined, and can be used for review. You can also add notes along with the mined sentence!
We also already have existing libraries of videos that are processed already.
We use AI for all the sentence analysis, tokenization, etc, which means higher accuracy compared to existing parsers. We also already choose the most probable meaning for a word for you when it could have multiple meanings by looking at surrounding context.
Bi-directional learning: You can study words in a top down or bottoms up manner. Top down means you learn words as you watch videos. And Bottoms up means you choose what words you want to learn, and then watch example videos from it.
Video based review: You can review sentences along with the Youtube clip that it was saved with. This is especially useful for listening practice!
Tailored learning: You design how you want to immerse and review. We let you do this through “Albums” where you can save videos into albums and then when you’re looking for example sentence, you could filter them by that album. Also, if you want your review to only use videos from a specific album, you can do that as well.
Shadowing practice: You can practice and improve your pronunciation by shadowing sentences and you’ll be scored on how well you said it
Immersion stats tracking: for each word, you’ll see your viewing, reading, listening, and shadowing experience points. We also track total number of watched hours.
It’s quite costly to support this and so it’s not free. But we do have a free trial.
Roadmap:
mobile app
improve chrome extension to allow assisted immersion directly on Youtube. Currently, it’s only an importer
Whoa this seems really interesting, you definitely put lots of work into it. Thanks for sharing your hard work! I’m not exactly in a position to add too much more to my studying or I might burnout, but when the gap opens up, I’ll definitely be sure to try.
Would have liked it to show how much the subscription is without having the 7 day trial first. No point in doing a 7 day trial and then finding out I can’t afford it.
Is there any interaction with the kanji levels of Wanikani? I see that you are a Wanikani user, but only level 1 so I would guess you joined Wanikani to contact with Wanikani users. I have re-set from level 21 so this is my second time around. I would be super interested in a setup in HayaiLearn where subtitles from YouTube (or another source) showed the wanikani dictionary / radicals in real time. Could this be possible? It would be amazing.
Not sure when the netflix will be ready, we’re aiming around July, but can’t guarantee. Also to clarify, the netflix support will just be through the extension with overlays. It won’t be as fully integrated as Youtube with our website.
It’s tricky, I spend a lot of time looking up kanji in Wanikani from other programs. I’m not sure breaking up the radicals would be a good solution to be honest. I joined the 7 day free trail and your program is amazing. I am going to join. Unfortunately I joined Migaku on a years subscription and regretted it within one session. It’s disjointed and very difficult to use. Your HayaiLearn is by far a superior product and I was very excited to try the wide ranging functionality. I especially liked the option of looking up an individual word and how it is used on different videos. I was able to retain the word long after I used the program which is unusual for me. Your work is outstanding.
Just curious - what exactly did you find so very difficult about Migaku? I love it because it’s (imho) so easy to use. Open a Youtube/Nflix/whatever video in Browser or phone, click ‘Watch with Migaku’ and that’s it.
I found it labour intensive repeatedly going through the menu to find information on the unknown characters. HayaiLearn has it all there laid out beside the text which from my user perspective is so much easier to use. The card generator on Migaku wasn’t brilliant either. I stopped using it after a couple of weeks. I am still using HayaiLearn and find the learning process much more fun to be honest.
Could it be that it’s been a while you tried Migaku? I started using it in December last year and there were still some annoying bugs with the Card Generator, but after a couple of patches it works perfect now, both with the Chrome Extension and the mobile app.
But I’ll give this a try so I can see myself if I like this more
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