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Work · March 16, 2023

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Phrase Tutor – learn Italian via roulette wheel flashcard selection

Hey people, this is a side-project of mine called Phrase Tutor (https://phrasetutor.com). I whipped it up to help me learn Italian using a method I used way back in high school to faster retain historical facts. It has a pool of 100ish phrases and after you go through them all at least once, it will start prioritising phrases that you had trouble with. This way you are focusing on the toughest phrases more. This is kinda like roulette wheel selection used often with genetic algorithms. I wanted to blend in when I was in Italy and not speak English all the time. I only had a week,…

Phrase Tutor – learn Italian via roulette wheel flashcard selection launched on March 16, 2023 with 11 votes, #1,870 of 5,007 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Phrase Tutor is a flashcard app for learning Italian that contains approximately 100 phrases. It uses a roulette wheel selection method that prioritizes phrases the user struggles with after an initial pass through all cards. The tool is designed for people who want to quickly learn practical Italian phrases, such as those preparing for travel. It was built using the Wasp full-stack framework.

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Hey people, this is a side-project of mine called Phrase Tutor (https://phrasetutor.com). I whipped it up to help me learn Italian using a method I used way back in high school to faster retain historical facts. It has a pool of 100ish phrases and after you go through them all at least once, it will start…

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