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LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

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Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

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Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

Chinese please.

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#32
Nice work!

It’s great that you can track your progress in this app!

When I was learning German, I used the dictionary lookup on Kindle a lot and made a web app to extract that vocabulary as Anki flashcards. It’s available on https://fluentcards.com. The code is open source on GitHub.

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#33

Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

This is very cool. Yes, please add French and Dutch. Dankjewel!

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#34

Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

As a credited contributor to the EDICT[1] Japanese/English dictionary, I am very pleased to see its successor JMdict[2] actively supported by this project. Bravo!

And as someone who now also speaks Italian, I am even more pleased to see that Italian support will be added tomorrow.

It is wonderful to see such a useful tool released as an open-source, self-hosted project. (^_^)

[1] EDICT: http://edrdg.org/jmdict/edict_doc_2009.html

[2] JMdict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMdict

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#36

Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

Very cool! How do you handle segmenting sentences into individual words in Japanese? I've been building a similar app for Android, but gave up on Japanese partly because segmenting was so unreliable.

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#37
post #12

I'd love to try it, but is there a way to get it? Maybe I'm missing a link but I can't figure out a way to try it. Ah, found, it's here: https://github.com/simjanos-dev/LinguaCafe

+1 OP should add a link!

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#38
post #36

Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

Very cool! How do you handle segmenting sentences into individual words in Japanese? I've been building a similar app for Android, but gave up on Japanese partly because segmenting was so unreliable.

Hi! Thank you so much. I am using Spacy tokenizer with python.

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#39

Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

Seems great, I'll test it soon !

I know Christmas is over, but my letter to Santa would include: - some Anki sync feature (over an external Anki sync server or any other solution) - a non-docker install guide - of course more languages!

I've been looking for a tool to study vocabulary this way, especially in languages I'm already fluent in, to learn more nuances or specific meanings to some words. Having tried several things I settled on the bookmark feature of my Wiktionary Android apps (Livio's, which are nice), and a small sync/script chain that would let me review words, compare definitions in different dictionaries, choose the best and edit/complete it, and make an Anki card of it. The whole process was still tedious.

Re: LinguaCafe: Self-hosted software for language learners to read foreign languages

#40

Hey guys. I wrote LinguaCafe. I didn't know it was posted here, I've just read it now. I didn't think this many people would be interested. I'll write a guide for Jellyfin, then add Italian, French and Dutch languages tomorrow.

As a credited contributor to the EDICT[1] Japanese/English dictionary, I am very pleased to see its successor JMdict[2] actively supported by this project. Bravo! And as someone who now also speaks Italian, I am even more pleased to see that Italian support will be added tomorrow. It is wonderful to see such a useful tool released as an open-source, self-hosted project. (^_^) [1] EDICT: http://edrdg.org/jmdict/edict_…

Hi!

Thank you for helping me learn Japanese! :)

Can you please explain what do you mean by actively supporting JMDict? I hope I didn't make an attribution mistake, or misunderstood something. My understanding is that I can use those files in my project as long as I follow the license guidelines.

It makes me really happy that so many people are interested in it. :)

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