Learning With Text (LWT)
H2 General
Learning With Text is a free and open source environment for reading texts in foreign languages. The programme has dictionary, translation, audio player, and vocabulary management system built-in so the process can be streamlined.
However, the code is written a long time ago and some APIs no longer work. Neither does it run in the newest version of PHP so downgrading to 5.4.45 may get it to work correctly.
@gustavklopp’s LingL is a wonderful alternative written in python if LWT is too complicated.
My personal fork is fork of
@PirtleShell’s fork of
@andreask7’s fork and contains some customisations detailed in this blog post
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LW is a powerful language learning tool if used appropriately. One problem I face, however,...Concerning My Unofficial Version of LWT
Development for LWT started again at HugoFara’s fork!
The default French to English dictionary API no longer works for some reason. After some exploration I came up with this list of options:
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/###
(This is my default dictionary; it handles inflections quite well but can feel over-detailed)https://www.linguee.com/english-french/search?source=auto&query=###
*http://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&sl=fr&tl=en&text=###
for google translate in new windowhttps://bing.com/translator/?text=###&from=fr&to=en
(This one works even in an html frame, which is why I ditched Google Translate)*https://de.glosbe.com/fr/en/###
for opening Glosbe in new windowdict:///###
(This brings up the MacOS built-in dictionary if you are on Mac)
H2 A complete rebuild?
Maybe it’s time. LWT is old, and its code base is hard to work with, but its approach is still unparalled by any other tool. I don’t know how hard it will be to build a better one, but I think I shall open source my vision: 2022-07-18 Towards an Integrated Content-Based Language Learning Environment - An Exploratory Proposal
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Status
Currently under development with phase I completed as discussed in
See also continuous progress log...Towards an Integrated Content-Based Language Learning Environment: An Exploratory Proposal