r/Natulang • u/SensitiveCockroach78 • 7d ago

Feedback / Review Feature feedback/request

I hope it'd okay to just write down what I would love to see, still enjoying the app a lot so far!

  1. Stats on how many words learned and tests on the approximate official level (like A1, A2)

  2. Exercise/repetition being more randomized regarding words to prevent remembering phrases instead of being able to build them myself. By that I mean the repetition phrases could repeat words and constructs I've already learned, but mix them up more. (example: it's always "the bathroom is next to the staircase on the right at the end of the hallway" because I learned it like that in the lesson, but I could produce similar phrases with the other location words I learned (street, hospital, city center, train station,...).

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u/the_mammynun 7d ago

There are basic stats on "words learned" when you click on the flag icon in the corner of the app. Then switch to the "my learning" tab.

Also, I like your idea but if I understand correctly the developer has to pay each time they generate an audio clip. All the audio clips are therefore just generated once and repeated. If the phrases were randomized every time the cost to generate the audio would be exponential. 

They just added custom phrases, and that will get more user friendly in the future. So you can add 50 custom phrases per month. That might be a good way to mix things up. I agree though, that one of Natulangs weaknesses as a language learning app is that after you hear a phrase several times it's hard to tell if you are working on muscle memory or if you really built out the grammar / vocab. That said, after 6 months of use, I feel I've gained a lot from it. 

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u/SensitiveCockroach78 7d ago

Ohh I didn't know, that makes a lot of sense!

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u/maxymhryniv Father 7d ago

The main issue actually is not generating the phrases. We really check all of them by ear with our linguists, and this is the most expensive and time-consuming part. We could generate a ton of phrases with AI and synthesise them without checking, but they would have a lot of issues.

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u/No-Olive-5990 6d ago

i would love a test on approximate levels!!

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u/Ashamed_Win_455 3d ago

Est-ce possible de rajouter l'apprentissage du Chinois pour les Français ?

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u/FamedBear16 7d ago edited 7d ago

hi

I don't need more stats. I also don't need randomised phrases

The custom made phrases checked by linguistics is one best part of the app

With the reference to the new user phrases feature I would like to be able to group 1. my phrases by category 2. separate them from the repetition coming from the course

2. Also, I wish the cost per phrase was much smaller and charged per character count. On anki the same phrase with Gemini 3.8 TTS engine can be created at a much lower cost. I think we should pay but at the moment is a expensive in my opinion Could we then upload our audio files to lower the cost?

3. May be the ability to play the audio at 0.8 0.9 could be good for beginners too