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ripose-jp / Memento

An mpv-based video player for studying Japanese
https://ripose-jp.github.io/Memento/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Other languages #149

Closed adriannedbailo closed 1 year ago

adriannedbailo commented 1 year ago

Can I use it for learning other languages? How can I set other dictionaries or something like that?

Calvin-Xu commented 1 year ago

According to https://github.com/ripose-jp/Memento/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md, your best chance is to start a fork. Memento is suitable only for Japanese mainly because: 1. dictionaries in Yomichan format on the Internet are all for Japanese, as Yomichan is an extension for Japanese, but you can load any compatible dictionary for other languages you find 2. Memento uses MeCab for text segmentation/tokenization, which is meant for Japanese. This means you most likely will not be able to automatically select / lookup words in other languages via mouseover in Memento.

ripose-jp commented 1 year ago

You can do anything you want, but Memento is built for learning Japanese. I won't be adding support for other languages because I'm not learning other languages. The reason Memento is worth using is because I know just enough about Japanese to make it work. I know nothing about French, Russian, Tagalog, or any other language you may consider trying to use Memento with. You are welcome and encouraged to fork Memento if you want to take the foundations established by it and build it out to work with another language.

X-49 commented 1 month ago

You can do anything you want, but Memento is built for learning Japanese. I won't be adding support for other languages because I'm not learning other languages. The reason Memento is worth using is because I know just enough about Japanese to make it work. I know nothing about French, Russian, Tagalog, or any other language you may consider trying to use Memento with. You are welcome and encouraged to fork Memento if you want to take the foundations established by it and build it out to work with another language.

Hi guys. How can I use Memento to learn English? My native language is Russian. I like that Memento is based on Qt6 and is available for macOS, unlike Haruna and mpc-qt, but I'm not particularly interested in learning Japanese. I will not be able to make a fork of the project for English, it is quite a difficult task for me.

ripose-jp commented 1 month ago

If you created a Russian to English dictionary in Yomichan's dictionary format, you could use it to learn English, but it would not work well. Memento cannot deconjugate English words, so it is likely that a word like "work" may show up in searches, but words like "worked", "working", or "works" will not be deconjugated correctly. Something like interSubs may work better for you.