Just wanted to give you lots of thumbs up for the explain feature - it’s absolutely excellent! I have used it so many times already and it adds a lot of richness.
I’m for example using it in learning French from German (neither are native languages to me, and it’s a way to work on both for me). Having the explain in English actually helps when I don’t understand the German sentence nor the French sentence completely. If you would want to move the explain feature to be available in more languages - I’d love for it not to be fixed but that you could have the freedom to select any language offered.
Can you add Ancient Greek?
On Tatoeba you can find 1661 phrases in Ancient Greek. https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show_all_in/grc/none
Many people are interested in Attic and Biblical Greek but there aren’t good apps for Ancient Greek. You can use Modern Greek TTS for audio in Ancient Greek. In Greece they use modern pronunciation for Ancient Greek.
Personally, it would be nice that a correctly typed answer could be recognised and submitted automatically without pressing the enter key.
Why I find it helpful in my case: I always do the combination of listening plus text input with both spelling hints and typing color hint enabled. In order to learn a sentence, I need to consecutively press the enter key at leat twice or three times when I disable the sentence from showing automatically after audio. My pinky gets sour after 200 sentences. ;(
Tá fáilte romhat @09543 ! (Welcome in Irish Gaeilge)
Ancient Greek sounds fascinating!
Whilst learning Irish we are being taught how to read Ancient Irish as well - at the same time. I found an ancient Children’s Irish Text this morning and I was able to read it! It was so exciting!
I would so love it if we could learn Ancient Irish here one day as there are thousands of scrolls and texts to be read in Old Irish.
Can we make it so you can manually set your time zone in the mobile app? I work nights so my new day effectively starts in the evening. I have the web app set to match my sleep schedule. But the mobile app resets at midnight. This means during my “mornings” I have to use a mobile browser to access the site when I want to work on the reviews that should be due that day. There should be a way to set your daily refresh time in the mobile app settings.
I find that the possibility to leave comments on each example sentence is really helpful, especially when you have knowledgeable native speakers answering questions.
Idea for improvement:
The possibility for people to select their native language (or languages the know extremely well i guess) and be notified whenever there is a new comment on an example sentence.
Say for instance that you’re a native speaker of language “L”.
You could choose to subscribe to L’s “new comments notifications” and see whenever a learner (or anyone I guess) left a new comment on a given sentence.
As a native speaker, you could then quickly check it and help out if you can
This way, learners would get most of their questions answered by people who know what they are saying.
Maybe this has already been suggested (apologies if that is the case), or maybe it’s already implemented, in which case, I would like to know how it works.
When it comes to languages, I feel like it doesn’t get much better than getting your questions answered by knowledgeable native speakers, so I thought I would post anyway.
I love the radio feature, but there are a couple issues which make it hard to use.
When I use Radio mode to learn Cantonese from English, half the time I can’t understand the English. The Cantonese uses normal voices, but English uses a lot of strange ones which are often unintelligible (too robotic, overly melodic, quietly whispering, etc). Can we have a setting to just use normal voices?
The radio mode seems to stop after a while and it’s dangerous to try to turn it back on while I’m driving. Is this a bug? If it is meant to stop after a while, then maybe we can set a timer or at least see how long it will play before stopping.
It’s my understanding that Clozemaster uses the device’s built-in voices for the source language (which is English in your case). If you go into the settings page while playing, you should be able to choose which voices you prefer; I have chosen to exclude all Indian-English voices, for example.
In my experience, this is due to connection issues; if the app believes it is offline it will stop playing.
In fact, there is a timer, but it’s not working. ;(
Interesting. You are absolutely right! I had no idea there were so many strange voices in iOS. There is a whole section of novelty voices. For example, “Jester” which laughs through the entire sentence or “Whisper” which sounds like a serial killer left you a voice message.
Good to know these can be disabled, but I still think non-standard voices should be off by default. Honestly thought the radio was glitched when I first started using it due to all the uncanny voices.
Feature request: Cumulative reviews added to Review Forecast graph
Under “more stats” there is a “Review Forecast” bar graph of the number of new reviews coming up by date. I find this very useful for managing my activity and tweaking my review settings. If I completed 100% of my reviews every day, this would be completely sufficient. However, when reviews pile up after a couple of days of slacking it can take a while to dig out from under them, and I find myself wishing for a digestible projection of the review situation in the future.
I would love to see two color coded line graphs, ideally superimposed on the bar graph:
One that is the sum of the number of reviews (e.g. I have 2 tomorrow and 3 the subsequent day, the line shows 2 and 5 respectively).
One that is the same as above, but subtracts your 7-day reviews average (e.g. in the prior example, if I am averaging 2 reviews per day, it would show 0 and 1).
I realize putting both on the same graph might create a scale problem, so if they can’t be toggled or otherwise accommodated, I think the second one is the most useful and the first could be omitted.
Hola. I would like to be able to select a word or a sentence from the original sentence and highlight it with the color I choose. This could have different uses, for instance, assigning the color blue to the masculine gender so when that word shows up again, you can remember it better (very useful with languages that have 3 genders). It can be used to remember cases too.
Would love it if when you’ve got translations hidden, after you clicked reveal you can just continue typing without re-clicking the answer field again. Its quite a small thing, but I feel like it would really improve the fluency of reviewing.
I really don’t like the bright red button beckoning me to stop an infinite round. When I have the sentence completed my eyes are drawn to that button. If you insist of making it red, could it be off to the side? Perhaps a part of those buttons at the bottom right? If somebody is going to do more than 100 cards, then they are probably going to notice the button wherever you put it. Please just don’t make it distracting like it is
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