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awesome-language-learning

A curated list of amazing projects that help you learn languages.
https://github.com/Vuizur/awesome-language-learning

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  • Language Learning

    • Learning With Texts (LinQ-like)

      • trunk - Very pretty UI, works pretty well (although the author says it's unstable) and supports 8 languages.
      • trunk - Very pretty UI, works pretty well (although the author says it's unstable) and supports 8 languages.
      • lwt - A self-hosted version (requires a bit of effort to get running) with a long history.
      • lute - A partial rewrite of lwt.

    • Reader Programs or extensions

      • WordDumb - A program that edits ebooks so that simplified definitions are shown over complicated words. It also supports generating Kindle X-Ray.
      • fluentcards - A website that allows you to turn your kindle lookups into Anki flashcards
      • tachiyomi - An manga reader that can fetch manga in many different languages.
      • KOReader - An open source ebook reader app that runs on many devices and has a lot of integrated dictionaries that can be downloaded with one click.

    • Dictionaries

      • wikdict-gen - For 20 popular languages this project offers a downloadable dictionary in many formats for each language pair.
      • ebook-reader-dict - 10 monolingual dictionaries extracted from Wiktionary in several languages.
      • Wiktionary-Dictionaries - Dictionaries extracted from the English Wiktionary, supporting 300+ languages with definitions in English.
      • dictionariez - A browser extension to look up words on web pages.

    • Chatbots

      • ChatGPT - very good for practicing a wide variety for languages. Especially with the new version that can listen and reply to you in voice (freely available in the app).

    • Anki (Flashcards)

      • AnkiDroid - The free Anki Android client for the most popular flashcard software - the [desktop version](https://apps.ankiweb.net/) is free as well.
      • vocabsieve - A program that allows to easily add sentences you read to Anki. Per flashcard the focus always lies on one word, with automatically fetched translations + pronunciation.
      • tatoeba-to-anki - A project that allows you to generate Anki decks with translations.
      • ankigenbot - A telegram bot that automatically creates Anki flashcards for words you send to it.
      • FSRS4Anki - An optimized spaced repetition algorithm that should minimize review time.
      • vocage - A spaced repetition program in the terminal

    • Video Players (or extensions)

      • mpvacious - Allows you to automatically create Anki flashcards out of the TV shows you are watching.
      • Immersive - A similar program to mpvacious.
      • voracious - A video player that has several features directed at language learning.
      • subadub - An extension for Netflix that allows downloading SRT and makes them copyable (so that you can look up the words).

    • Language Learning Games

      • Game2Text - A program that makes it easy to look up words in Visual Novels.
      • LibreLingo - An open-source Duolingo-like game.

    • Open Source Games (with a lot of text and translations)

      • Unciv - Awesome strategy game (Civ 5 remake) with very low resource requirements and great desktop + mobile support.
      • Shattered Pixel Dungeon - Very polished roguelike with pixel graphics and desktop + mobile support.
      • Widelands - A strategy game inspired by Settlers 2.
      • Pathos - A roguelike game with desktop + mobile support inspired by Nethack.
      • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A zombie roguelike game with a huge amount of content.
      • 0 A.D. - A strategy game inspired by Age Of Empires.
      • Battle of Wesnoth - Turn based strategy game with a huge amount of content.
      • OpenTTD - A simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
      • Veloren - A voxel RPG inspired by Cube World and Minecraft.

    • Courses

      • Language Transfer - An app that offers completely free audio courses for several languages.

    • Chrome Extensions

  • Developer Resources

    • Dictionary Data

      • wordnet-as-a-service - A REST interface for WordNet.
      • Proficiency - A library that extracts short definitions from kaikki data.
      • dictcc-stardict - Tool to convert the dict.cc dictionaries to stardict format.
      • wiktextract - A very high quality extracted JSON version of Wiktionary, with the English one containing over 8 million entries in 300+ languages with a huge amount of metadata. Supports currently 6 Wiktionaries, download the extracted data [here](https://kaikki.org/dictionary/rawdata.html).
      • Ultimate Dictionary API - A free dictionary API that supports all languages.
      • The KOReader dictionary list - Direct links to hundreds of free Stardict dictionaries.
      • pyglossary - Amazing library for the creation and conversion of dictionaries in a huge amount of formats.

    • Translation

    • Text To Speech

      • edge-tts - A Python library the uses the reverse engineered Text To Speech API of the Edge browser, producing extremely high quality output.
      • Coqui TTS - An entirely open source Python library running locally.

    • NLP

      • spaCy - A great library that can do everything: tokenization, lemmatization, named entity recognition, and much more.

    • Speech To Text

      • Whisper - OpenAI's amazing project that delivers extremely good results (except for low-resource languages).
      • whisper.cpp - A version of Whisper that runs much faster on the CPU, it even supports browser through WASM.

    • Frequency Lists

      • wordfreq - A great Python library that contains frequency data for 44 languages.

    • Image generation

      • Stable diffusion - An amazing open source generator that made huge waves on its release.
      • AUTOMATIC1111's webui - This is what you should install if you want to use Stable Diffusion locally.
      • Camenduru's notebooks - A simple one click way to use Stable Diffusion on Google Colab (if you don't have a good graphics card).
      • civitai - A website that contains all kinds of models, optimized for different aesthetics.

    • Other Great Projects

      • WantWords - A reverse dictionary that can find words based on the definitions you type (and works surprisingly well).

  • Useful Resources

Programming Languages
Python 18 C++ 4 JavaScript 4 Jupyter Notebook 3 Lua 3 Java 2 Kotlin 2 Clojure 2 TeX 1 TypeScript 1
Categories
Language Learning 36 Developer Resources 21 Useful Resources 3
Sub Categories
Open Source Games (with a lot of text and translations) 9 Dictionary Data 7 Anki (Flashcards) 6 Image generation 4 Learning With Texts (LinQ-like) 4 Reader Programs or extensions 4 Video Players (or extensions) 4 Dictionaries 4 Other Great Projects 4 Translation 3 Speech To Text 2 Text To Speech 2 Language Learning Games 2 Frequency Lists 1 Chrome Extensions 1 Chatbots 1 Courses 1 NLP 1
Keywords
language-learning 15 anki 12 python 8 deep-learning 6 game 5 dictionary 5 stardict 4 nlp 4 flashcards 4 ai 4 wiktionary 4 pytorch 4 subtitles 4 natural-language-processing 3 yomichan 3 lua 3 android 3 spaced-repetition 3 kindle 3 epub 3 ebook 3 linux 3 stable-diffusion 3 image-generation 2 img2img 2 gradio 2 ai-art 2 txt2img 2 srs 2 learning-resources 2 strategy-game 2 libgdx 2 machine-learning 2 languages 2 japanese 2 mpv 2 mpv-script 2 translation 2 machine-translation 2 speech-synthesis 2 tts 2 clojurescript 2 electron 2 spacy 2 ebook-reader 2 human-language 2 kobo 2 browser-extension 2 chrome-extension 2 text-to-speech 2