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Show HN: Lexical - How I learned 3 languages in 3 years

https://lexical.app/white-paper
5•trubalca•1h ago
Hey HN, I'm Taylor and today I'm launching Lexical, a language learning app that actually works by teaching the 5,000 most common words in the target language.

Spaced repetition is how I've learned Spanish, French, and Italian in the last 3 years and I couldn't find tools that have the languages that I want to learn in the future, so I built Lexical.

The link goes to my White-Paper describing the language learning philosophy behind Lexical if you just want to try it out you can click "Get Started" at the top of the page. To really experience Lexical at it's best you'll need an account (sorry guys) but I've tried to make it as easy as possible.

I'm a big fan of Hacker News and am looking forward to your comments and hopefully even some beta users.

Here are some old HN posts that inspired my app and white-paper.

Learning is remembering https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982513

Kanji only requires 777 words https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20721736

Most of language learning is temporary heuristics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907531

Duolingo sucks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425061

Comments

supermdguy•1h ago
Really like the philosophy, and the UI looks clean. You mentioned grammar briefly, but I’m curious if you think that’s also a component that could be learned through the app? One thing that’s nice about Duolingo (despite its flaws) is that it progressively introduces new grammar concepts and uses them in the lessons. Would be cool to have something similar here.
azaitz•1h ago
This is huge
andreyazimov•1h ago
Can you please add Portuguese?
trubalca•1h ago
Hi there! I'm working on it right now and hope to have it added by the end of the week. I'll shoot you a message here when I've got it added. Or, you can send me an email so I can respond to your there: taylorboan@me.com

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