troy_civ

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Hi Gabe,

Thank you for doing this AMA. Hugs to Norbert.

You already gave some in depth explanations on the app a few days back.

To me the database really seems to be the heart of the project. As far as I understood you are planning to include the initial top 625 word list with 3 example sentences each, including professional audio recordings.

  1. Where does it go from there? For me it starts getting interesting as soon as the DB will be a little bigger. How long will it take to fill the DB with 10k+ words in each language?

  2. Will your team continue to create content after the initial 625 list or will they be busy with the reviewing of the contributions by the volunteers?

  3. Have you guys already thought about the possible license for the DB? I think it would be only fair to give people who work on that db the possibility to access and work with it outside of the FF app. But on the other hand you are doing all the reviewing and probably many audio recordings, too. Also you need to take care of possible clones. So I really don't know what's the best solution here.

One more thing: I had an idea recently. One could enter coherent texts/dialogs into the DB. Review them sentence by sentence, or listen to them in one piece.

Greeting, Troy

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How do you think this AMA is going?

little statistic: You have 140 comments so far, Riley Reid has 740.

That gives you 1/5 of her popularity. That's amazingly impressive, don't you think? ;)

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one really quick one:

Will Brazilian and Portuguese Portuguese be supported?

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yeah, that's a good sign. Lots of people believe in your vision. Wish you much success

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Brazilian for our official support, and we’ll have unofficial support for EU, plus an official European pronunciation trainer available