Working on a visual language learning app called Snapalabra!

The idea is simple: You look at an image and describe what you see in your target language. That's basically it!

My reason for building it was that even though I can understand a lot of spoken spanish, I really struggle to construct sentences on the fly when speaking. Doing a few minutes of active learning like this each day really helps remap my brain a little, and I quickly run into situations where I hit a wall and realize I actually don't understand something as well as i had thought.

The app also gives a little feedback on what i have written from an llm, and it also provides clues that I have mapped to each image.

At the moment I am using it mainly for intermediate Spanish and beginner Irish, and personally I find it really helpful for both. Basically learning vocan for Irish, and more serious sentence structure etc. in Spanish.

I know a lot of people absolutely hate the idea of mixing LLMs with language learning, and I can kind of see why, but I personally find it really helpful in certain cases. If you are already doing classes, and consuming content in your target language I think something like this will be really helpful for a 5 minute coffee-break type activity in the morning. Its not a language course and I have not intention for it to be one. Its just a supplementary little tool that helps with getting your brain thinking in a new language and it is free to use.

Here are a few links if anyone thinks it might be interesting:

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapalabra/id6747401847

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatever55....

Website: https://snapalabra.com