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alexSimpson96 | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

oh lol, I read it early on in my Chinese learning journey so I just googled trying to find what its name was again, thats embarrassing. Thanks for the clarification though.

alexSimpson96 | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

If you ever get a chance to go into a book store in China and see the books printed, I think this might help with motivation. To me, going in these stores and holding a physical Chinese book with all the characters printed is so cool. The first book I read in Chinese was 卖血记 by 许三观。It's a good book by itself, but the main motivation that got me to finish it was the feeling that I was able to understand this classic Chinese literature and read it exactly as the author intended, rather than reading a translation.

After a few books, just the excitement of being able to read novels in Chinese is probably not enough though. At that point, it needs to be a book you genuinely like. I'm lucky that the 三体 books are interesting to me, they will keep me busy for a while.

Connecting people to media they like in other languages is a good idea though. Maybe I'll try sharing more about the best novels to read in Chinese as some point.

alexSimpson96 | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

yes I think it great for HSK 6! If you try it out and have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact me anytime :) my email is [email protected]

alexSimpson96 | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

Thanks, appreciate the feedback! Video would definitely be cool, might build it at some point.

alexSimpson96 | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

yes it could definitely work for other languages! I started with the niche of Chinese since that's what I'm learning, but if there is demand for other languages I'll build that too.

alexSimpson96 | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built an app so I could read the 3 Body-Problem in Chinese

yeah I used LingQ in the past. It's a great tool and was part of my inspiration for this. Realized I needed a tool that worked for physical texts though, so I built Readly.