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The definitions are human translated for now. We're still working on improving the translations to match the words - as in running = run and so on.

I wrote my app in Python/Django. My reasons were short:

1. I wanted to learn python, but was not really interested in ruby 2. Rails is too hyped. The problem here is that people pigeonhole you when they hear that you are a rails developer. If someone ever came to me and told me he was a rails developer, I would immediately perceive this guy as someone who jumps on technology bandwagons. The type of guy who listens to top40 charts. 3. Django just had a way better argument when it came to performance

and the most important reason of all

4. When I created a new Django project, it just created 3 files. Rails (when I tried it) created a bunch of folders and files. People have to understand simplicity in all its facets to be effective programmers, in my opinion!

I believe the problem here is just microfocus. When people focus too much on one thing, they tend not to take a step back every now and then to see if things are still the same as when you started. Let's say I want to start a business in china making valves for microturbines. I spend half a year and progress is very slow. It's time to realise that things are bad, take a step back and review the process. If things are hard, you are doing something wrong.

Sometimes it's neccesary to work hard. But sometimes is not a year. One has to take life in 6 month chunks, and you only have about 140 of those. You lose one, you will never get it back. A year is two of those chunks. It's too much time to be unhappy in.

I'm one of the fastest developers I know because I was taught the technique - when things start going slow, stop, zoom out and analyse the reason why it's going slow. Then go back in, but approach things differently. This time you want to maintain the quality of work, but reduce the time spent on it. It's not difficult to optimize that.

The characters only display if you have eastern languages enabled on your PC. This is microsofts fault, not mine!

Hit the same button again to get more pictures.

Well, try this. Click on the chinese course and spend 1 hour on it. You should be able to do 2 lessons in that time. Write down all 30 words you learnt on a piece of paper. Sleep on it, wake up the next morning and read the paper and see how many you still remember. It won't be 30, but I think it will be more than 5. Don't forget to click the button to view the pictures for the words.

I remember your site. It looked very plain, now it looks pretty good! Nice choices there!

It's different. Ingolingo concentrates on words, Rosetta teaches you how to use sentences in situations. They complement each other.

Well, we don't have any italian guy to help us!

You're right, I do need to do design work. But it's tough to be good at programming and at design too!

Thanks for the criticism. Well, just try it out. 30 words is just two lessons a day - I think people underestimate the power of repetition in learning. 30 words is easy if you do two lessons a day. Yes, the text stuff is not completely done yet, it still references parts that are not online yet. That's why we have the 404s still.

Yes, I probably should preload all the answers for the questions. However, we store the mistakes the user does, so the server has to be contacted each time anyways. And sending back to the server will be useful for later when we mix in sentences and all that.

Well, the idea now is just to describe it. Later we'll make it more imagey, with a video tour and all that on the front page

You're right. I'll do this as soon as I figure out how to!

This is the first stress test, and looks like Django on webfaction is not holding up too well! Or maybe just my poor coding :)

Freenet is a project killed by attitude problems of the creators.

Inglingo is a simple web based foreign language vocabulary trainer. I'd also appreciate some criticsm on the site itself. It's available here: http://www.ingolingo.com

The web version is under development. The web version is more complex because it also uses the unique features that the web has to offer. So it will be out in a few weeks.

However, we are planning on selling the desktop version traditionally, and since it is more straightforward to develop, we decided to do things backwards and launch our Web 2.0 application as a desktop application first of all.

If you want to get info when the web version is done, add yourself here: http://www.ingolingo.com/lists/

Yes, we're launching in China in a few months. Our focus is on the non U.S market, particularly Asia, but also Europe on some specific things.

Nice. Well made and straightforward.

Hi guys, this is my new application, finally released to the world. It's a word trainer with a few unique things thrown into it.

I'd appreciate some honest criticism - what you like and what you don't like. This is the first draft, and I realize there is still a long way to go before getting it perfect!

Thanks! Mark.