Show HN: Learn Chinese words from movie clips

https://pingtype.github.io/movie.html

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tpaschalis• 9 years ago

Well, even though I have no clue about Chinese, this seems like an impressive amount of work. How long did it take for you to build the whole thing?

peterburkimsher5• 9 years ago

Are you interested in other languages? Maybe I can put another dictionary in, and make a version to help you learn something else.

The keyboard came first; that took about a month, last December. January: I made an AppleScript to split the characters and add colours for the tones, from the Unihan character dictionary. February: word splitting. March: porting to Javascript. April: adding Taiwanese, simplified characters, bopomofo, etc. May: movie subtitles.

Future: restaurant menus, teaching English from Chinese, song lyrics, other languages.

starwaver• 9 years ago

Some of the translation is not 100% correct but not bad! It does look like it took a lot of work, you got my full respect for that

peterburkimsher5• 9 years ago

The translations are from Google Translate, but edited by hand. If there's an error, please tell me and I'll fix it! There's also a dictionary editor built in; click the Edit button and see the popup. You can upload your changes to the server, too.

cjy• 9 years ago

Very cool. I am currently learning Chinese and have found it hard to find movie/tv shows that include the pinyin subtitles. This is so much better with the color coding, formatting and dual translations. Thanks for putting in all the work and sharing.

peterburkimsher5• 9 years ago

Thank you for the encouragement! Where are you studying? Are you learning traditional or simplified? Is there anything else I can add to my code to help you?

bakeryOnMain• 9 years ago

The volume on most of the clips is way too low. Please make the clips louder. Otherwise, amazing job. :)

peterburkimsher5• 9 years ago

Thank you for the suggestion! I'll have to edit the original movie for that, then re-clip, re-join, and re-concat the headings, but I can do it.

peterburkimsher5• 9 years ago

I fixed the volume now, and uploaded combined clips for each level to YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUS5dz58-4i1ZQF0qouSaQ

Show HN: Learn Chinese words from movie clips

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