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Comment by MarceColl

3 days ago

I've been building something similar but targeted at bringing content that interests you to your level: https://katarineko.com.

I've been learning Japanese as well and the content at my level is boring while the content I'm interested in is a wall.

Interesting. I've been working on the same problem (you need stuff at a kid's level, but not aimed at kids, if you are interested in the content then it will be easier to learn): https://tailoredreaders.com/samples

I think I like your solution better than mine, which is basically generating children's books from user prompts.

When you say you generate stories from the films, are you summarising / simplifying the narrative of scenes in the film (to down level the language), or creating something new, just with the vocabulary the film uses?

How does this product compare to the methodology of dreaming.com?

  • It's a similar methodology, my problem with things like this is that they do give you comprehensible input, but it's very boring. I don't engage at all. The idea of Katarineko is to create comprehensible input from content that interests you. Say you want to watch Spirited Away but it's a bit too advanced for you at the moment, we create stories at your level for Spirited Away to teach you the core words you need to achieve your target comprehension level.