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Thanks for the suggestion.
I also think about something like this, but do not have the full picture yet to
implement.
Maybe you can describe how you want it to work?
That, actually, can be implemented as a separate browser extension, so you can
use it with other tools etc.
But as I said, I have no clean picture what to implement, the use cases,
design, settings expected.
Your help would speedup the process for sure.
Original comment by ysol...@gmail.com
on 17 Mar 2011 at 6:42
I also wish this feature was available. There's a learning system known as
LingQ (http://www.lingq.com/) that does something similar. It works like
this: if you're reading and you don't know a word you can save it to a list
(saved through a right click and a drop down menu or something like that). I
think it also saves the definition and the sentence it came from, which
provides context for later review. When I used Lingq in the past I would also
dump my lists into the flashcard program Ankii and review them daily. You can
use the LingQ website for free but it limits the number of words you can save
to 100. You can pay a monthly subscription if you want to save an unlimited
number of words. The website offers a bunch of other things like courses,
one-on-one or group tutoring, etc., but I never used those features since they
didn't have material for the language I was learning. Personally, I think
Franker is easier to use and helps me greatly, but I do believe adding this
save feature would quicken the time required to acquire new vocabulary.
Original comment by thomas.s...@gmail.com
on 16 May 2011 at 12:17
Thank you, Thomas. Yes, I think it can be done like you described.
Franker definitely can save context (i.e. the sentence the word come from) but
definition/translation will be hard.
You'll have to type in the translation yourself, is that OK? The reason is I do
not have direct word-to-word relation, sentence-to-sentene only.
Not sure where I'll implement it first, browser extensions or iOS app though.
Original comment by ysol...@gmail.com
on 22 Sep 2011 at 7:18
Thanks for adding this feature. You can see how this has been implemented at
LingQ (www.lingq.com) or with an open source alternative to linqQ called
"Learning with Texts" (http://lwt.sourceforge.net/index.php#preface). Both of
these require you to import text and then apply their software, although I
think LingQ has now added a tool that allows for direct import from a website
(but I can't use it because they don't offer the language I'm learning). In
any case, I've found Franker much easier to use since I mostly want to read
articles from websites and don't want to spend a bunch of time importing texts.
Original comment by thomas.s...@gmail.com
on 29 Oct 2011 at 11:28
Similar request:
"Would it be possible to store all of the frankated words/phrases from a page
or browser session in some type of database? The idea would be to export the
foreign language selections with their translations to a comma or tab
delineated text file, which could then be imported into a flashcard program
like Anki. This would be an incredibly useful and powerful feature, as the user
could quickly create custom glossaries and vocabulary lists for later study.
Having this type of database could also be useful for doing text and
statistical analysis, to perhaps find patterns of words that the user has
trouble with, or to calculate the percentage of a text that the user can
comprehend."
Original comment by ysol...@gmail.com
on 10 Apr 2012 at 7:10
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
adam.m.b...@gmail.com
on 14 Mar 2011 at 11:30