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    Captionz - major update to make youtube more useful for language learning.

    Hey! Hope you had an awesome weekend.

    Just wanted to share an update I’m really excited about: I’ve been working on Captionz, and it just got a major upgrade! 🎉 It now supports language-specific search, which means you can search for words spoken in a particular language inside YouTube videos.

    So, for example—if you’re learning Swedish like I am—you can type in any Swedish word (or English word?), and Captionz will show you YouTube videos where people are actually speaking Swedish. No more digging through irrelevant content. It’s like turning YouTube into your own personal language-learning search engine.

    Ever tried using YouTube to learn a language?

    Maybe you're following some cool SFI teachers or native speakers on YouTube—maybe it’s French, Spanish, Japanese, whatever. That’s awesome, but YouTube doesn’t really give you good tools to learn from those videos, right? That's where Captionz comes in. It’s made specifically for language learners who want to use real, native content to study smarter.

    Here’s what it can do:

    Dual subtitles? Yep. See both the original language and your native language side-by-side. Super helpful for understanding context and structure.

    A-B repeat? You got it. Replay a sentence or phrase over and over until it sticks. (Yes, it’s that good ol’ A-to-B loop feature from back in the day!)

    Search any word or phrase? Big yes. Want to hear how native speakers say “hej då” or “ça va”? Search it and boom—real people saying it in real videos.

    Add notes? Kind of. Right now, you can add notes during the video, and they’ll fly across the screen like flying bullets. It’s a fun start, but still in development—private notes and better note management are on the roadmap.

    Why this matters

    This project really means a lot to me. I love YouTube, and I genuinely believe it’s one of the best tools for language learning. There’s always someone out there creating exactly what you need to hear or see—you just need a better way to find it. That’s the whole idea behind Captionz.

    Whether you're just starting out or you're already deep into your language journey, I hope Captionz makes it easier, more interactive, and honestly, more fun.

    A few quick tips to get the most out of Captionz

    Use dual subtitles to compare sentence structure and learn natural phrasing.

    Loop tricky sentences with A-B repeat and shadow them until they sound natural.

    Search new words you encounter in lessons and see how they’re actually used by native speakers.

    Follow channels in your target language and combine them with Captionz for a powerful study combo.

    Thanks for reading this far! 😄 I’d love for you to try it out and let me know what you think. More features are in the works, and your feedback helps shape where this goes next.

    By the way—what language are you learning right now? And do you have a favorite YouTube channel for it? Comment under the topic. I’m always looking for good recommendations!

    Happy learning!

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    • captionz youtube development • 26 days ago • river 26 days ago
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    jpdbio Japanese English

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    • japanese - english japanese english • 15 days ago • Tran Hung 15 days ago
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    Read articles, look up new words and export to anki, the way I learn English

    This is my blog, I will pick up where I left off, And I am looking forward to your comments and suggestions. Thank you.

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    • blog dictionariez learning english • 10 Nov 2020, 18:03 • river 10 Nov 2020, 18:03
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    Chaguan - No American election will change China’s mind | China | The Economist

    This is a topic shared directly from Dictionariez.

    As China and US sparring with each other, Biden has became the President elect. But is there really something changed? Is the rift gonna be healed?

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    • learning english • 11 Nov 2020, 07:44 • River Young 11 Nov 2020, 07:44
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    Share your reading with pals, using Dictionariez

    New feature of Dictionariez: share your reading articles with our community.

    Download Dictionariez now.

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    • pnlpal dictionariez • 11 Nov 2020, 09:48 • river 11 Nov 2020, 09:48
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    Chinese Authorities Punish Citizens for Using Foreign Social Media | Voice of America - English

    The environment is getting worse, not just the pandemic.

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    • learning english news • 12 Nov 2020, 00:48 • river 12 Nov 2020, 00:48
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    Trump bans Americans from investing in Chinese firms he claims have ties to the military - CNN

    Does this mean that the trade war ended but the financial war is coming?

    And is this realistic? As some companies are even listed in the US exchange, like China Telecom and China Mobile, which are dominant state monopoly in China btw.

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    • news learning english • 13 Nov 2020, 12:33 • River Young 13 Nov 2020, 12:33
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    Suddenly, hope - The promise of the new covid-19 vaccine is immense | Leaders | The Economist

    Let's hope this time it'll work. We human beings have long time suffering, losing hope to battles, and false hope for dictatorships. But we are always progressing.

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    • news pandemic learning english • 13 Nov 2020, 20:19 • river 13 Nov 2020, 20:19
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    Who's Gritty?

    https://twitter.com/NicoleConlan/status/1326928011963195397

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    • twitter learning french • 13 Nov 2020, 21:48 • river 13 Nov 2020, 21:48
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    Why you don’t like the sound of your own voice | Rébecca Kleinberger

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3vSYbT1Aco&ab_channel=TED

    Learned a lot from this video. You heard all kinds of voice from several level of masks, and your inward voice through your bones, not air. But magically there is the inner voice, maybe you can't really hear your own voice because your brain filters it. And you can hear your silence thought when you are reading.

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    • ted learning eng youtube • 13 Nov 2020, 22:42 • river 13 Nov 2020, 22:42
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    TikTok executive says app used to censor content critical of China - Axios

    Surprisingly, why I am not surprised?

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    • news censorship • 14 Nov 2020, 00:51 • river 14 Nov 2020, 00:51
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    Democrats keep winning the popular vote. That worries them.

    US politics is really fun. Sometimes it's spectacular, sometimes it's nasty. Sometimes it's full of hope, sometimes it's full of anxiety. This year I learnt something new: win the popular votes, but lose the electoral. It's interesting.

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    • political news learning english • 14 Nov 2020, 00:58 • river 14 Nov 2020, 00:58
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    Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours

    This shit blocks every apps failed to open? Bad practice, apple! Do you know that the Internet has divided into two parts, the Internet and the Chinese intranet? So confident that you think Chinese ISPs won't mess the route up?

    Back to privacy issue, well I dont have any problem about that, because I don't have privacy at all. Welcome to China.

    Since October of 2012, Apple is a partner in the US military intelligence community’s PRISM spying program, which grants the US federal police and military unfettered access to this data without a warrant, any time they ask for it. In the first half of 2019 they did this over 18,000 times, and another 17,500+ times in the second half of 2019.

    This is very interesting. Be sure, US citizens, that this kind of information stays in the US, not grabbed by any country other than US military. Otherwise you will be a surveillance state, too.

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    • news technology privacy • 14 Nov 2020, 01:37 • river 14 Nov 2020, 01:37
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    5 ways to celebrate TensorFlow's 5th birthday

    Great, I should give it a try. Maybe adding some robots here is a good idea. Such as an auto answering robot, or a remind me later robot...

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    • technology blog • 14 Nov 2020, 02:33 • river 14 Nov 2020, 02:33
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    Dictionariez supports Portuguese and Russian now with v2.4.0

    Pals, I am proud to tell you that Dictionariez v2.4.0 has published.
    Well, chrome version is still under Google's review, as always lagged behind Firefox. But Firefox version and local crx file is ready to use now.

    So what do you think? Tell me your opinions and suggestions, I desperately need them.

    Download links and more details are at Github.

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    • dictionariez • 15 Nov 2020, 14:02 • river 15 Nov 2020, 14:02
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    Barack Obama: I Still Believe in America - The Atlantic

    God first made the promise to Abraham (Genesis 15:18–21):

    On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

    The Promised Land, Obama's new book, a memoir that discover history and give hope to the future. Looking forward to it, highly recommend.

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    • learning english recommend a book • 16 Nov 2020, 08:13 • river 16 Nov 2020, 08:13
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    A Gentle Introduction on How to Use Anki to Improve Your Memory

    Saw this on reddit at a lonely sleepless night. It's well written, quite easy to understand. I have been using Anki for a year now, it has really helped me a lot.

    Another source I would also like to recommend:
    The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

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    • anki learn a language • 16 Nov 2020, 22:05 • river 16 Nov 2020, 22:05
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    Small debts, big problems – Rest of World

    So this shit has being going for a while now, I wonder what's happened really, and what impact will it cause. The dust has not been settled yet, let's see.

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    • news learning english financial news • 17 Nov 2020, 03:31 • river 17 Nov 2020, 03:31
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    A collection of M1 Macbook reviews

    Although some nasty news has been traveling around apple recently, such as privacy issue and new MacOS's glitch. But this new M1 chip seems really rocking. Some even call it a revolution...

    Let's watch a series of highly recommended videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoEDgl_xBo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEaKQ0pxQsg&ab_channel=TheVerge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4g2nPY-VZc&t=118s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2qgTyTVUgI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB89hwHJfxM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZY2cJ4QYps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sktKAsWx9bo

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    • apple programming product • 18 Nov 2020, 02:05 • river 18 Nov 2020, 02:05
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    How do Spotify Codes work? - Boonedoggle

    Well written, both the article and the code. A little bit spoiler, I am also working on Spotify...

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    • spotify learning programming • 18 Nov 2020, 06:39 • river 18 Nov 2020, 06:39
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