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adtac
This is really awesome. I'm learning German, and I can see a real use-case for this for me. I'll give it a try and come back with feedback!
zubairq
Make this as a service and I would pay to use it
jbaudanza
Can you say more about what you’d want in such a service? What language are you learning? What kind of videos do you watch? Where do you get them? Youtube?
zubairq
If there was a collection of videos on you tube which had subtitles for the main video and an extra language then I would pay for it. Danish for me
jbaudanza
Nice. I working on something that does exactly that for Korean videos on youtube. If you're interested in helping with feedback, I could repurpose it for Danish. If so, email me at jon@jonb.org.
zubairq
Send me a link to try it for Korean and I'll give you my feedback. You can post it here on Hacker News
xuhu
Wonder what two (or three) languages one should use this with: audio in new_lang, and subs in new_lang and your_native_lang ? Or some other combination ?
zonovar
In my case I find it very useful to have audio and first line of subtitles in the language I want to learn and second subtitles in my native language.
pgz
I made something similar for Japanese learning, but instead of merging subtitles, I analyze the Japanese subs with mecab, look up the words I likely don't know based on their JLPT level, and add them with reading and translation on the top right of the video.

I also plan to auto generate Anki cards with unknown words when I do the analysis pass.

zhamisen
Yours is this one from github, right?

https://github.com/juliango202/jijimaku

I found it very nice. Thank you for developing this solution :)

pgz
I have not open-sourced my code since it's a gross hack I did in one afternoon.

It looks exactly like the screenshot of that project. Very interesting that I thought of the same solution without knowing jijimaku.

borne0
This is cool and in the same vein I've found that a lot of Canadian gov't dept/figures have very literal translations of their tweets making them a nice, bite-sized snippet to translate, then check with the other tweet.
jclos
I was actually looking for something like that last week. Thanks OP!