This looks neat. If you’re going to add Duolingo style features, please don’t add fill-in-the-blank or word matching to the question types; or at least make them optional. They are an incredibly frustrating waste of time on Duolingo—they take up a ton of time to solve and don’t actually improve comprehension. My biggest gripe with Duolingo is that half of the questions asked in a lesson are questions like these which have the pretense of helping you learn but don’t actually deliver. I think if you instead came up with some very difficult question types that really challenged someone’s comprehension, it would be stickier than Duolingo (especially for the HN crowd who is actually trying to learn) and not just here to “play a game” like a large portion of the Duolingo audience.
Thank you! I am very interested in this project and want to keep working on it, hopefully getting help from open source contributors.
I actually had this idea of using Duolingo's style exercises, but now with your comment, I realize some might not be appropriate for individual learners with different goals.
The cool thing would be to have customizable exercise types, where users can choose which ones they want and which ones they don't want!
I will add this to the roadmap in the README, pointing out this comment! Thanks again!
Out of curiosity, do have any citations on how those exercises don't enable learning?
On the latter part, there used to be a hard mode at least in browser mode where you could have it force you hand type every word. I always really liked that, but then they got rid of it. Of course with the heart system these days, I wouldn't last 5 minutes if I tried to do it that way so such is life I suppose
