Emurse is a platform for learning languages with a focus on instructor-led courses, phonetics and comprehensible input.
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We're using Stripe to run our marketplace where teachers can sell their language courses. It does MOST of what we want/need.
I've done numerous checkout/payment processing integrations over the years. Stripe is still pretty easy to use and full-featured compared to what I've used in the past. It does have its annoyances, shortcomings and API inconsistencies - but it's still better than the alternatives, in my view.
Support has been good when I needed more documentation on something. Their chatbot performs very poorly, however.
Most of these are common sense. As a tourist foreigner, you also aren't expected to know all the customs but it's appreciated when you try. The one about which direction to NOT point the chopsticks in was new to me. If you just watch what other people are doing, then try to do the same thing, you're probably on the right track.
Related to eating, one pro-tip I got from a local is that when you're ready to close your tab or get your check at a bar or restaurant, you can make a small X with your index fingers.
The UI for loopmaster looks really good. The color scheme is really pleasing to look at and it is easy to jump right in and start editing stuff.
I've owned a bunch of different synthesizers and used a bunch of DAWs over the years and it was clear to me where I needed to make my edits to affect the signal chain.
We do real-time client-side audio processing in Emurse, and there were definitely a bunch of challenges to overcome there, so it would be interesting to hear more about what went into building the tool.
Fish sauce is also really popular in southeast Asia and Worcestershire sauce is often made with fermented fish so can also be considered garum adjacent.
Anki is great for what it is, but it has some annoyances when studying languages. They were annoying enough for me that I build some tools for Anki to try to address the problems. Eventually, I migrated my SQL scripts and JavaScript code to a lightweight .NET Core app that replaced Anki entirely.
This app was the starting point for presenting interactive content in Emurse. We're currently focusing on filling in areas of language learning that are missing - like phonetics.
If anyone is interested, they can checkout Dogen's Phonetics Course on Emurse: https://emurse.io/courses. There's also an "instant demo" for the Thai Course where you can try a demo without creating an account.
Multiple variations "per-card" are the way to go. It was one of my big gripes about Anki too! My other big complaint is that it only really is tracking one metric when it comes to study - whether you remember the "card" or not.
This is where Anki falls short for language study, because we as language learners also want to look at listening & reading comprehension as well as pronunciation.
Any reason why you're using SM-2 over FSRS? In Emurse we're using an algorithm similar to SM-2, mainly because FSRS wasn't out when we started building it. it works well enough because we've come up work arounds for Anki's problem of workload distribution. Looking into FSRS a bit, I am definitely interested in giving this a shot and seeing if it improves it in that area.
The chirping bird sounds to help blind users find their way to and from the platforms is also a pretty interesting design decision.