Hey everyone!

I make French comprehensible input videos on YouTube (French in Motion), and I've been building BingeLang for about a year. I'd like it to become a hub where you can find language-learning content and track your immersion in one place.

The platform brings together YouTube videos from different creators, sorted by difficulty and topic, from complete beginner to advanced. There are also illustrated stories, games, flashcards and comprehension quizzes.

Languages covered across the site and extension:

🇫🇷 French · 🇬🇧 English · 🇪🇸 Spanish · 🇩🇪 German

🇮🇹 Italian · 🇧🇷 Portuguese · 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · 🇯🇵 Japanese (TL)

I also built a Chrome extension for YouTube. It adds subtitles in both the language you're learning and your own, with word translations on hover. You can keep the translated subtitles visible or show them only when you need them.

The extension automatically tracks your viewing time and syncs it with Bingelang. Your YouTube and website hours are recorded together for each language, with a daily activity calendar so you can look back and see how much time you've spent learning.

Everything is free. My plan is to fund the project with ads for language-learning apps, books and related services, rather than put the learning tools behind a paywall later.

You can browse the videos without an account. Saving your progress and using the extension require a free one.

Website: https://www.bingelang.com/

Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jcmmjabiijaeflifginngngmcogmgacf

I'm still working on Bingelang and adding new features, and I hope some of you find it useful!

Thanks for checking it out, and thanks to the mods for letting me share it here!

I have a 1406 days Duolingo streak and am considering quitting it. I am wondering if there is anyone else here who quit after using it for a long time and is willing to share their experience?

Duolingo had been great at getting me started and practicing Spanish (TL) consistently every day, but I feel that I am not improving fast enough considering how much time I spend. I have a plan based on my previous experience studying English many years ago, and I know what works for me. However, I am wondering if I can stay motivated and practice consistently, because learning English was not optional (I immigrated to Canada), but I can definitely survive without Spanish.

So, if you quit Duolingo, how did it go for you?

My birthday is coming up in a few weeks and this means that I get to choose a language learning resource to sign up to! 🥳 It's basically a birthday tradition for me at this point. Last year I chose "The Chairman's Bao" (a news-based graded reader for Mandarin).

I'm currently actively studying Hungarian and Mandarin at the moment, so if anyone has any recommendations for those languages specifically that would be great, but wider recommendations would also be welcome. I'm a dabbler at heart, so having resources that offer multiple languages to play with alongside my main ones is always a bonus for me.

I will say, I don't like Pimsleur. I know some people swear by it, but the style of teaching is not for me. The way that they break down words so slowly and backwards irritates me for some reason. Some of the lesson content is just a weird vibe too. I had a free trial with them once and cancelled it before it was even close to finishing. 😕

Hey, when I was in my teens I decided to learn Portuguese as my third language (I am native in English and French), which I have been studying very leisurely on and off for 13 years now. To be honest I'm probably barely intermediate in Portuguese but the basic grammar, vocab and Brazilian pronunciation are now deeply engrained.

I've recently decided I want to go to Latin America next year, potentially Central America or Colombia. So I've started learning (TL) Spanish (through Pimsleur initially) and I can already see that my existing Portuguese (which I haven't actively studied in a year) is going to be an issue with my brain automatically going for the Portuguese vocabulary and Brazilian accent even for basic words and phrases.

Anyone have any tips for distinguishing the two and avoiding the dreaded Portuñol or regression in Portuguese? The typical advice to focus on fluency in one before starting the other isn't really helpful for my timeline.

Why not have your AI, when it’s talking to you, throw in words in another language you don’t know, so you slowly pick it up?

Here’s how I’d do it. Take the most common words, say the top 100. Replace the whole word every single time, not just sometimes. So “is” becomes “shì” from then on, always. I’d have it spelled out phonetically (pinyin) instead of characters, because the characters are a whole different thing.

You don’t repeat anything back. You just hear it and read it, and you pick it up from context.

Start slow with two words. Then four, five, six, ten, fifteen, whatever you’re comfortable with. If it’s going too fast, dial it back. I’d lock in a standard progression that starts slow, and you adjust the speed as you need.(TL)

The best part is it’s not something you sit down and do. It’s just background. It’s part of your everyday life.

I don’t even know any Mandarin, so I haven’t tested it. I also can’t monetize it, because it’s just a set of prompts. Anybody could do it. So I’m putting it out here. I think people will build way better versions than I could.

example — like, “so instead of ‘this is really interesting,’ your aisay ‘zhè shì really interesting’”

Hi, everyone!

I've been struggling with this one for a while now, so wanted to ask here.

Assuming you already know the words in your (TL) and can process them given enough time, how do you personally get accustomed to numbers when spoken at a regular pace?

I'm curious to see how you all work on this. Thank you! :>

i'm leaving soon on a long trip to the country my mom was born in. pretty excited. quick question though. i studied hard for two months and now i can actually hold a conversation with my mom in my TL. i figured i could basically live like a local now, but according to her i sound about ten years old. so the plan is to get a lot better while i'm there. the thing is, if i go without a plan i think i'll just eat a bunch of new food and come home. what should i do? i genuinely have no ideas. any advice is welcome