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I Made a Multilingual First Words App with a Dictionary and Midjourney

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I Made a Multilingual First Words App with a Dictionary and Midjourney

My friends wanted their toddler to learn her first words in English, German and Vietnamese, but they couldn't find any good books for this combination. So I decided to help them by creating an app for their "first words" journey. The app is like a customisable board book: A realistic picture on the left page, then the word in 1 to 4 languages of your choice on the right page. When you tap on the picture, it changes and a realistic sound is played. The words can also be read out loud using text to speech. I used Midjourney to create "photos" for each word. - I chose this style because realistic images have been shown to help toddlers the most with real-world recognition. Detailed illustrations would have the same benefit, but it was too difficult to get a consistent style. - Most photos were generated in a few tries. Generating a dinner knife, a potty and the correct number of objects was quite difficult. A single banana was impossible for me. Even with image prompts I could only create pairs. Translations were done manually using dictionaries, and some languages were double-checked by native speakers. - Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean also show their romanisation to help non-native readers. Hope you too find the app useful.

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