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Erik Gerrits

Elon.io - Fast-paced, deep and free AI generated language courses

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I've launched 25 AI-generated language courses. The main distinguishing features are that they're really fast-paced and unlimited in depth. The courses are freely available. In the paid version you can ask more questions to the AI.

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Erik Gerrits
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Hi guys! I made Elon.io, which is a fast-paced alternative to Duolingo and let's you to learn an unlimited amount for free. I've just added the following AI generated language courses: - Afrikaans - Czech - Danish - Dutch - Esperanto - Filipino - Finnish - French - German - Hausa - Hungarian - Icelandic - Indonesian - Italian - Latin - Malay - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese (as spoken in Brazil) - Portuguese (as spoken in Portugal) - Spanish (as spoken in Latin America) - Spanish (as spoken in Spain) - Swahili - Swedish - Vietnamese The problem I had was that I wanted to learn languages and noticed that all options were both slow and incomplete. So therefore I created a fast-paced alternative that's unlimited in depth. At Elon.io, you learn a language by translating sentences from English into the target language. I've added AI generated questions and answers to each sentence, such that you'll be able to understand what's going on in the new grammar that's introduced. I still have quite a list of todo's among which are: - Make the AI learn from user feedback which things are not clear yet or where it's going too fast, such that it can adjust its exercises and explanations accordingly - Make courses from other languages than English, and into more languages than the ones mentioned above Please let me know about your ideas, feedback and requests. All content is freely available, but please consider choosing a paid subscription if you like it. I'd like to give this platform my full-time focus.
Erik Gerrits
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P.S. I know the name is silly. It was meant as a cool sounding acronym for "e-learning online". This was 10 years ago, when I didn't know the person with this name.
Erik Gerrits
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P.S. My apologies for having AI generated art instead of hiring a designer. I have almost no income from Elon.io at the moment
Seb
@erik_gerrits to be fair, the Hardcore Dutch AI generated Art was quite the reason why I clicked on it.
Seb
I've been using Elon.io for like 10 days. The HARDCORE DUTCH course gets challenging very quickly (you can alt+tab because the lesson % will go down, and failing exercises with bring down the completion bar). It is a commitment to do every course, feels like you are writing more than 150 sentences in order to progress... But something REALLY weird happened... I remember 100% of what I learned the day before. Not a little bit, all of it. After 10 days and 5 lessons, I can already write simple phrases... I will complete all 100 lessons and give another review. This has potential to be way better than Duolingo.
Erik Gerrits
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@lordsp Thank you for the thorough comment Seb! Yes, the progress goes down with time when exercises in the lesson need to be repeated again. So if you make a mistake and the item is repeated in 30 seconds, in those 30 seconds it will consider you've "completed" the item, but when the 30 seconds have passed an you'll need to repeat it, it won't consider that item "completed" anymore, and therefore you see the progress go down. I'm glad you remember so much after doing the lessons. That's the goal of Elon.io, making you go fast, but still ensuring that everything sticks into memory. I definitely hope it's doing a better job than Duolingo at that because I made this precisely with that intention :) Definitely looking forward to that next review! Ik wens je veel succes!
Ioanna1111
I LITERALLY LOVE THIS WEBSITE, I have been searching for a free website to learn turkish and the turkish course u offer is the best (it includes grammar rules, vocabulary etc). Please create a separate hardcore Turkish course as well!!! It would be a great combination
Erik Gerrits
Maker
@ioanna1111 Thank you so much for the kind words! Aah yes I hadn't launched an AI Turkish course because there was already a human one, but you're right. I should. On it!
Erik Gerrits
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@ioanna1111 I've now added the Turkish course. The first lesson isn't completed yet, but it's under (automatic) construction and should be completely finished within an hour. It's the first of the courses completely created by a new AI model (o3-mini with high reasoning effort), so I'm excited to see how it will turn out :)
DhkWiseOwl
I see Korean and Japanese, any chance of adding Chinese to the site too? I recently discovered this site and I LOVE it
Erik Gerrits
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@dhkwiseowl That's great to hear Wise Owl, thanks for letting me know :) I'm definitely planning to add Chinese as an AI course. I'll first have to figure out how to deal with how I make users write it (any ideas?), but it's definitely not at the bottom of my todo, as it's such an important language.
DhkWiseOwl

@erik_gerrits It's a good question - maybe figure out a way to use pinyin. The Chinese keyboards on phones either use pinyin, radicals, or actually writing with your finger. Pinyin is probably the most straightforward way since it's basically using the English alphabet with the four tone marks. The user can type the pinyin and a bunch of characters will show up that have that pronunciation and then they can pick the one they think is correct.


May not even need to have buttons for the four tone marks since I think it's standard that tone 1 is the non-accented one, tone 2 is the rising tone, tone 3 is the falling-rising one, and tone 4 is the falling tone. It's pretty standard to type "ren2" for person, or "mu4" for wood, or "ma3" for horse. The user would need to know what character to look for, but you'd have to know how to say it to be able to type pinyin. I've also seen some course books start out with only pinyin and after a few chapters, start introducing the characters, then do characters for the remainder of the course while displaying the pinyin on the side for pronunciation help.

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Erik Gerrits
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@joseph_wilson7 Thank you Joseph for the wonderful comment. Great to see you've managed to find a job in Japan! I wish you the best of luck!
Olexander Chepil
Much better then expected! I really enjoy learning languages on elon.io Hard enough exercises + simplistic ui with no distractions is exactly what I needed. Thank you, mister Gerrits 😺
Erik Gerrits
Maker
@olexander_chepil Thank you so much, Olexander! Great to hear you're finding the platform useful! :)
Aequus
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Genuinely a very effective spaced repetition tool, aimed at people who are serious about language learning. This is quite literally everything I wanted Duolingo to be, and I'm looking forward to updates in the future! Suggestions: - In my opinion, the progress bar needs a rework. It should be linear, and should accurately reflect how far you've come and how far you are from finishing a given lesson. It's a little bit frustrating to see it go down from time to time when it should feel like you're making steady progress - Questions at the ends of lessons don't get enough repetition. There are some sentences that I've only seen once, and some that I didn't even get right, which didn't get repeated because I've reached "100%" - The site needs a redesign without AI art, and probably a new name. I'm otherwise a fan of the minimalism on the learning interface, but the overuse of AI generated images along with the name (intentionally or unintentionally referring to Elon Musk) just makes it look like some random tech bro's pet project, instead of the serious learning platform it could grow itself out to be - Maybe an offline version? The courses and the platform itself seem to be lightweight enough to be able to easily download and run locally. Just an idea Keep it up! I'll be following it closely, and either way, it'll probably take me a few months to get through the 105 Hardcore Spanish lessons :D
Erik Gerrits
Maker
@aequus Thanks for the wonderful words and the thorough feedback. You're the second person I hear about the progress bar now. I'm already thinking of some ideas to rework it, but not sure yet exactly how. Suggestions are welcome :) Regarding the name, I totally agree and am very unhappy with it. Just too afraid to change it since the largest part of my traffic comes in through the search engine, and I'm afraid google won't like me anymore after the name change. I'll still look into it more deeply though. I may hire a designer for the images, as you're definitely not the only one commenting on that either. And offline version is also a very good idea, but it's going to complicate several things so that one will take a little longer. Spoiler alert: there aren't 105 lessons. In reality the next lesson is generated the moment someone is busy with the last existing lesson. Therefore you'll never run out of next lessons...
S Clark
Excellent product, but am currently stuck on lesson 9 of Hardcore Turkish b/c the programme is refusing to recognise the hyphen on my phone keyboard (a hyphenated -l is part of the required answer) and I can go no further.
Erik Gerrits
Maker

@s_clark Hi there, thanks for letting me know this, and apologies for the late response. I've fixed the issue now. In case you encounter any other problems, you'll get a much faster response if you send a ticket inside Elon.io to me, because I don't look every day on product hunt. In the meantime, good luck with your Turkish learning journey!

DhkWiseOwl

Any plans to add Hardcore Russian?

Erik Gerrits
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@dhkwiseowl Yes there are. I'm going to have to think a little bit about how to deal with the input, such that people can also type it without changing their keyboard configuration I think.