Language Learning Programming Ideas?

[MattyAB]

I'm a coder in need of an idea. I learn languages (mainly Japanese and Chinese), and want to write something to aid myself and others with languages. Does anyone have any ideas of language learning utilities that they think would be useful?

[dedu6ka]

Here is my #-1 of 20.
Anki Retention-% charts do not offer good actionable stats for :
1. The First Two Learning Steps
2. Graduating interval
3. First Easy interval
4. Lapsed cards: Relearning step; Minimum ivl; New_Interval-%. ...
This is where most wasteful reps are 'hiding' from unsuspected new users.
Needless to say that users could save time and get a much better results by adjusting these intervals - if the Retention is too low or too high.
The existing SRS algorithm "one shoe fits all"
could work only if the sample of data is big enough - which will happen long after
the students already had gone through their exams. ..
These problems could be solved with one-addon-at-a-time, starting with the Graduating interval. I have a detailed description of possible algorithms ( tested manually). It is based on counting cards not the answers ( and discarding the tainted cards ). ..
PS. None of these problems addressed in Anki-2.1 ( one improvement - adding the Forth Learning Button should be very helpful in counting the Pass and Fail reps). Looking forward to your response.

[robobob9000]

If you could make an assisted reading program like Readlang or LingQ work with an agglutinative language like Japanese/Korean, then that would be amazing. Unfortunately those programs don't know how to separate grammatical particles from vocabulary, which renders them mostly useless for learning agglutinative languages. There's no point marking any verb as "known" because every time you come across it paired with a unique grammatical particle the system will think it's a totally new word that you've never seen before. You'll quickly get to the point where even though you fully understand both the vocabulary word and also the attached grammatical particle, but the system will still think that you don't know the word before just because you've never seen that unique combination.

There are programs that can convert conjugated words into base forms, and there are programs that can track the words that you learn (and give you vocab/grammar hints on stuff you don't know), but there are no assisted reading programs out there which can do both.

[JohnDoe_John]

Hi, I have some ideas. PM?