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Show HN: Language Learning with Comics

2 pointsby vinceltabout 2 months ago
Hey friends,<p>I&#x27;m currently learning Mandarin and was looking for a way to practice my reading that I&#x27;d be looking forward to do every day. Graded readers are quickly boring, and normal books are way too far up for my level.<p>Comics and webtoons are the perfect format: fun, conversational style, contains slang. But unfortunately are not compatible with traditional language learning apps (linq, language reactor, migaku, etc.) and manually looking up text disrupts the reading a lot.<p>So I made a little Chrome extension that runs OCR on the comics, translates them, and overlays popups on top of the speech bubbles to easily read them.<p>I also made a version that runs in the Kindle browser, by building a very optimized&#x2F;limited webpage that doesn&#x27;t crash the very-limited Kindle browser.<p>Maybe it can be useful to some here :)

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