[kleinishere]

Congrats on the innovative product and sticking with development!

How has the translation quality changed / improved since this Show HN a couple years back? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39177467

For languages not using the Roman alphabet, is it required that the user know the characters already? After registering but before starting a trial, I wasn’t clear on this.

Some comparison of who should choose this over Duolingo and why (ie features) could be useful.

[barrell]

Thank! Regarding the translation, Phrasing is Bring Your Own Content. In my initial launch, I used an official translation for the demo, but apparently chose poorly haha

For languages without the Roman script - you can enter in qwerty (or configure it to work with any script). When you tap on a word, it shows you the phonetics; and if you tap on the shapes feature you can see that information for every word at the same time.

The app will be default display everything in its native script intentionally. With a bit of curiosity, you’ll pick up the script soon enough. Normally within a few weeks for easier-from-latin scripts like Greek and Cyrillic, to a few months for harder scripts (although you’ll pick up the basics still in a few weeks).

For Japanese and Chinese, I have more suggestions though. Which language(s) are you learning?