Request for supporting a dictionary that translates from English to Hindi
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Hello, thanks for this awesome bot. I love it.
Could you please add Eng - Hindi translation in this as well. Check out this dictionary for the same.
Sorry but this bot is aimed at learning a language by having cards describing the words in that language, if you don't know some words in the definition provided, you should add those words.
An interesting feature I considered in the past is to include a translation of the word into other languages (probably in the front), besides the other things that are there. However, I decided not to because of two reasons:
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There are many words for which there is no one to one correspondence to another word in another language. That makes things confusing and it's usually better to understand the definition and see the words in context via the sentence example.
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There are not many reliable dictionaries that are free to use that have such data. As an example the first word I tried searching in the website you linked does not show any results (for reference, it was "preposterous"). One could go around this with some work but the result is usually not pleasant. Words have different meanings and it is not clear which translation you should use to generate the card.
For words you think it would be really useful for you to have a translation in the card, you can edit the card by hand after the bot has added it to anki.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway :) Good luck on you language learning journey!
Okay, I agree that word usage and definition varies with language and a usually word would have multiple meaning in other language, but it was worth asking.
Again, thanks for improving my English vocabulary.