About - Language Bay

This website is a tool facilitating learning languages: It allows users to translate text to different languages, but to only show relatively common words inside the new translation and all complex words are left in the original language. This website is built off a dataset of words by commonality in various languages, therefore users can precisely set cuttoffs - I want to exclusively see words that are (for example) within the top 740 most common words in this language.

The other website I created for learning languages (which is actually a lot more useful than this website), is spacedrepetition which allows users to use spaced repetition and other intelligent algorithms to memorize terms prioritizing terms they have more difficulty learning.

Why I made this website

In my experience, one of the most challenging elements of learning new languages is prioritizing which words to learn because it is easy to get bogged down learning relatively uncommon words to the exclusion of the more vital words. Therefore, I made this website to allows users to completely exclude complex words from translations, thus simplifying the process of learning, say, only the top 1,000 words of a language.

How to use

To start learning a language, a user selects how many words they want to learn from the lanague (learning 800 words is a good start). Then they translate random texts from their native language into the desired language to learn and practice reading the new language and take note of any words they don't know. Users may also follow my link to my other website narratebay.com to instead listen to the text to practice listening instead of reading.

A dedicated language learner may even use this website to immerse themselves in a language: everything that they normally would read they instead first translate into the language they are learning before reading.

Research

I also am posting research into linguistics I have done to this website. So far I have posted some research relating to similarity between languages, but I am working on also posting researching into answering the question of which languages have the highest information density.