Author here. I'm working on launching a new webapp dedicated to helping language learners master numbers both in production and listening comprehension. I'd love any feedback, tips, or suggestions from the HN community.
On the main page, consider listing the languages, rather than using flags. Languages and countries don't always correspond one-to-one; many of the flags you have link to the same language, and conversely there are multiple languages spoken in some countries. A language list would be both more compact and more directly convey what people want to look for, rather than making people indirect through "I want to learn more of language X, which of the several countries speaking that language should I select, and does it make a difference?".
(That said, if you later expand to cover regional differences in accent, distinguishing between countries seems useful for that.)
Thanks! Regional dialects and differences in accent would be a great idea. I may end up being limited by the availability of the audio since I'm using a speech synthesis library at the moment. Perhaps some fallback methods of crowd-sourced audio for the less-common dialects would be an option.
Can you add the names of the languages below the flags (probably both in English, and in that language as well)? It's not super easy to scan for the language I'm interested in based on flags alone, assuming I even know what the flag looks like.
This is really cool! When I was learning numbers in another language, I would say license plate numbers out loud (or in my head) each time I saw one. This would have been nice at that time!
I tried the languages I know. Pretty cool! For my next language I'm starting now, this makes me want to start reviewing numbers even though it's not something I generally focus on at first.
Suggestion: make the lowest time at least 20 or 30 seconds, as 10 is too short.
Second suggestion: a visual component where you could utilize shop signs with prices on them (http://i.imgur.com/wsg5BU4.jpg) but I'm not sure how that could benefit the user, maybe the user has to type out the number (like "fifty seven").
This looks like it will be quite useful for anyone practicing languages that have their own word for 10,000 (Chinese, Japanese, etc), thanks!
In Chinese, the number "100,000" is not read as "100 thousand", rather it is "10 ten-thousands". This makes translating numbers in the range of 100,000-10,000,000 a bit awkward if you are not used to it.
Great app! Just a nitpick. Seems like China, Hong Kong and Taiwan all have "Chinese" selected. Where the dropdown menu in the freeplay page does have "Chinese Hong Kong" (or is it Cantonese?) provided.
