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Learning a Foreign Language? Try Letra: A New Tab Extension for Passive Language Learning ☀️

Jaye Hernandez on May 02, 2020

...and just to be 100% clear, I'm talking about foreign languages like German and French. Not programming languages. 😅 Why not learn something eve...
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Vaibhav Khulbe • Edited

This is so useful! I'm learning Spanish on Duolingo and this will definitely help me to learn new words. Like the typography and the design also, the text to speech is a bonus 💯

I've also upvoted and commented on ProductHunt!

Also, how can I add other languages? I would really like to contribute and add a feature. But I don't have much experience developing an extension.

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Jaye Hernandez

Thank you for the support, Vaibhav!!  🔥

Currently working on the API documentation which contains the languages. I'll let you know when it's up, most likely this week! No experience with extensions necessary to contribute. :)

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Awesome! Let me know. 😁

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Mathias Sixten

This is awesome! I just installed this for Korean :)

I've had this idea to build a chrome extension that translate a few words into your desired language here and there during general browsing. Kind of learning from context.

Do you have any recommendations for where to start learning to develop chrome extensions?

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Jaye Hernandez

Thanks for installing, Matthias! :)

Such a cool concept! I started out with reading Google’s documentation. It’s actually quite detailed! Once you know the basics, it’s just working with Javascript.

Hope this helps. Looking forward to your project as well!

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Mathias Sixten

Cool :) thanks again for the inspiration

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Raphael Jambalos

I love this! Added mine for Japanese! image

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Fernando Garcia

That typography makes Japanese characters look really neat 👌🏻

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Jaye Hernandez

Thank you for checking it out!! Good luck with Japanese, Jamby 🇯🇵

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Mir Bhatia

This looks great! I've already set it up for French.

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Jaye Hernandez

Thanks Mir, good luck with French! I also want to learn that someday :)

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Saf11000 • Edited

Love this. thank you so much.

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Jaye Hernandez

Thank you for installing!! 💕

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Andre

This is amazing. And you can choose multiple languages :D
The style is just on point, just match my google chrome dark theme. :)

Also, would be great to have English as a language to learn.

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Jaye Hernandez

Thanks Andre! Glad you noticed allowing multiple languages. :D

I’ll add the English language to the list of features to do, great suggestion!

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Ajay Immanuel

This is a lit idea!

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Fernando Garcia

Thanks! I will use this for French :D

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Jaye Hernandez

Thanks Fernando, best of luck in learning French! :)

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Chris C

Wow Jaye! Thanks

will use for Spanish ;)

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Jaye Hernandez

Thanks Chris! ☺️ Let me know what you think!

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Himanshu Singh

Would be great if we include programming languages as well

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Jaye Hernandez

I think it will be limited to foreign languages for now, just so it only does one thing, and does it well. But thank you for this suggestion! Might be a good idea for a completely new project :)