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Toucan - Learn a new language while you browse the web.

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Learn a nuevo language while you browse.
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Toucan will teach you Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and Japanese: jointoucan.com
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➤ Install in seconds
➤ Browse the internet
➤ Learn at your own pace
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Marc N Popa
Toucan is an amazing habit building app. Learning languages is finally easy and convenient!
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@marcpopa Thanks so much for the kind words, Marc! 😊 🐧
Joaquin Roca
Very cool. So many interesting things happening in browser extensions these days!
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@joaquin_roca Thank you so much, Joaquin! 😊 ❤️
Valerie Fenske
Great tool! A couple of questions from my side: 1. A word form may depend on the context. Will this be explained in the bubble? 2. Is it forever free?
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@valeryfenskaya Thank you so much Valerie! 😊 1. Yes, definitions will be live within the next week. So excited for this feature! 🔥 2. Our freemium subscription is already live within Toucan; however, the majority of our content is before any paywall. As we build more advanced quizzes and exercises, some of those may sit behind the paywall so we can continue making Toucan as accessible as possible for all language learners around the world My email is taylor[dot]nieman[at]jointoucan.com if you have any other feedback at all. Definitely all ears on how we can continue to make Toucan better 🐧 😊
Valerie Fenske
@taylor_nieman lovely! thank you so much :) p.s. I feel passionate people bahind the product
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@valeryfenskaya Of course. My pleasure! ❤️
Vitaly Shtan
especially like the idea that you can learn on the content you like! Is there a way to customize how much of the text I want to see in a different language? E.g. not just 2 words, but also a paragraph or more?
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@vitaly_shtan Hey Vitaly! Yes, in the Settings modal, you'll have the option to increase density and difficulty. We're continuing to make this more and more difficult so keep an eye out for Insane mode coming soon. This will have dense phrases, sentences, and paragraphs 🔥 My email is taylor[dot]nieman[at]jointoucan.com if you have any other feedback at all. Definitely all ears on how we can continue to make Toucan better 🐧 😊
Nick Elder
A very fun way to learn, though I wish there was a Firefox version
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@nckelder Firefox is coming super soon 🦊 Thanks so much, Nick!
Haley Quinn
Yes! I tried this out and it's pretty cool :) I've been using it to learn Spanish. Can't wait until they add more languages!
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@haleyquinn Amazing! Thanks so much, Haley. Many more languages coming soon. Any specific one that you're really are excited about?
Haley Quinn
@taylor_nieman I've been interested in learning Russian for quite some time now!
Em
@taylor_nieman Russian please!!
Michele Piccirillo
Great idea and very eager to try it to learn more German – but I'm a bit concerned about the quality of the vocabulary: on your own product page, "gold" is translated as "Silber", that is not... encouraging 😅 I hope it is something that has been done ad-hoc for the page and not coming from the vocabulary 😄 https://imgur.com/a/jrRJTfH
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@lordofthelake Hey Michele! That was a simple mistake on our end, and we had already caught it. It'll be fixed within the hour. Sincerely appreciate you flagging it though! 😊 ❤️ My email is taylor[dot]nieman[at]jointoucan.com if you have any feedback at all. Definitely all ears on how we can continue to make Toucan better 🐧 😊
Michele Piccirillo
@taylor_nieman Thanks for the quick and personal reply, appreciate the response! Rocking Toucan on all websites now for sneaking some 🇩🇪 learning throughout the day! 🙌🏻
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@lordofthelake Of course! Love it so much. Danke schon! 🤗
Clifton Manneh
Great product - I will be downloading this.
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@cliftonmanneh Thanks so much, Clifton! 🐧 😊
Tarek Dajani
Really nice idea. I've been always trying to German. My daughter actually thinks I'm fluent in it, when in reality I only know maybe 2-3 sentences :). Think I should atleast know some extra words quickly before she grows up and knows I was lying all this time. On a separate note though, does this actually lead to someone actually learning the language, if not, I think you should add something that does help, maybe for example, press on a word and then you put it in a sentence and then translate that sentence in English. Maybe not the best suggestion, but something similar is okay too. Good luck.
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@tdajani Love this idea, Tarek! We're in the midst of building this exact feature. My email is taylor[dot]nieman[at]jointoucan.com if you have any other feedback at all. Definitely all ears on how we can continue to make Toucan better 🐧 😊
MrAlexozo
I am using it already and it's amazing 😍😍! It's not invasive and doesn't take away the experience of reading normally. The single fault I found is that when I read articles in romanian, the meaning does not always match the word. Do you use google translate for translating words?
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@mralexozo Thank you so much! 🐧 😊 All of our translations are hand-translated by our team of experts including foreign language professors and grad students across the country. While we're not perfect (yet), we're constantly improving the contextual accuracy of our translations through an artificial intelligence capability called "Natural Language Processing." In addition, our users help improve Toucan by flagging errors that they encounter. Our technology is becoming smarter every single day.
MrAlexozo
@taylor_nieman Ok, nice that you have that feedback button, but I didn't know about it until you mentioned it 😂😂 I am going to use it now
Taylor Nieman
Maker
@mralexozo This is super good feedback! I'm speaking with our team now on how we can better educate our users on the amazing features that we have. Appreciate you taking the time to write down all of these thoughts ❤️
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