Trakaido
Imported from Atacama channel trakaido
I compared the Cambridge YLE list to the Trakaido wordlists. What I found was that most of the missing words were either deliberate modal verbs like "can", as well as pronouns, are handled outside the wordlists, correct << ice skating , << jellyfish , or << toothache do not need to be on the list,…
how much did building Trakaido cost?
About $600 of LLM credits. This includes one month of $200/mo Claude Code, about 8 months of having two $20/mo subscriptions (between ChatGPT, Claude, Replit, Zencoder), and API calls to generate data. there is a difference between "LLMs to write code" and "code that uses LLMs to generate data".…
Trakaido started out of a personal need. I wanted to learn Lithuanian, and Duolingo did not have it. The other apps on the app store were not satisfactory for various reasons.
Trakaido is live in the App Store! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trakaido/id6755203308
Trakaido: Language Learning That Follows You Everywhere
Learning a new language is a long game. You need a tool that meets you where you are — whether you're on your phone during a commute, at your desk with a full keyboard, or offline on a plane. That's what Trakaido is built to do.