Canary - Learn languages with music, practice with people
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Canary is a language learning app powered by music. Pick a song, see real-time translations, save words to your vocabulary list, sing karaoke to practice pronunciation, take quizzes on songs, and practice with others!
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Do you also offer some sort of gamification in the process of learning!
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@anishsharma Yes, but it’s something we need to do better.
Right now we have daily and weekly leaderboards based on song quizzes, plus badges for milestones. It's cool, but we know it needs to be more fun and engaging, and that’s something I want to focus on!
Very cool @bengue_z . I am hoping to become fluent in Spanish this year and also play guitar and love music, so this seems like a great and super fun way to learn. I am going to sign up today. Will let you know my thoughts! =).
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@johnston please do! And I also want to learn spanish this year haha
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I like that this didn’t start as a startup idea, but as something people genuinely enjoyed. Those usually turn into the best products.
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@abod_rehman Thanks Abdul - yes hopefully it will turn into something people love using !
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Music was how I picked up half my Spanish (shoutout to old Shakira). Real-time lyrics + quizzes sounds fun. Curious how you handle song rights and accents in karaoke? I’ll give the beta a spin tonight. Could be great for my rusty French.
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@alexcloudstar hahah Love that yes Shakira is the best Spanish teacher.
On rights: we don’t host or distribute music files. We rely on YouTube videos for playback and build the learning experience (lyrics, quizzes, karaoke) around that, so we’re careful with licensing.
On accents: karaoke is currently about active practice, singing, recording yourself, and mimicking native cadence. We don’t score accents with AI yet, but pronunciation feedback is on our roadmap.
Hope you enjoy the beta! Let me know if you have any feedback!
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can you import any song from YouTube or is there a limited selection? Also, will the app eventually give feedback on grammar in addition to pronunciation?
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@haiqa_irfan You can search any song on YouTube and import it directly in the app :)
For feedback: today we focus mainly on pronunciation through karaoke and repetition. Grammar feedback is on the roadmap tho!
Love the concept. Using the 'earworm' effect for language retention is a brilliant niche. Do you use AI to categorize the lyrics by difficulty levels (A1-C2), or is the content manually curated?
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@valeriia_kuna not yet but this is on our road map!
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@dubd59 Appreciatd the kind words Darrell! Thank you
Good. This tool makes the language learning process less tedious.
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@adagao I agree!
Does it support Chinese?
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@new_user___16320251bb8cc6662b0984f not yet but it is on our roadmap!