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french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-07

Thanks for reminding me, I read about Forvo at RhinoSpike's twitter (someone asked the difference), but forgot. And yeah, more on that audio from swac-collections/etc.: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=95493#pid95493 - I should've realized there'd be quite a bit of French there...

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-07

By the way, what do you think would be the easiest way to import those swac files into Anki? Can't decide what to find/replace on (the limit of my scripting abilities). Nevermind I see, the index.xml thingy has text/audio indicators.

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-07

If you know how to use this stuff, here's a Shtooka/swac plugin for Anki: http://polyglotte.tuxfamily.org/autres/anki_swac_en.html

french core 2000? - Nemotoad - 2010-04-08

Oh nice. Pity I'm not running Linux.

French Core Part Deux
I have a little present for all those who are interested in French. I wish I could be a bit more obscure but I'm too tired to bother. Behold! Fear me, and my vapid glare:

http://GUESS/files/373685307/vapidglare.csv.zip.html

Nest0r if you would kindly vague this up for me I'd appreciate it. Smile Apparently this link is only good for 10 people so think fast! I would misplace it elsewhere but I'm too lazy to register. Sorry for the delay but I decided to write the script in a language I don't actually know, you know, for kicks. So there may be a few errors here and there due to the original not being consistently edited and/or my incompetence.

I don't have a good French TTS otherwise I would have tried to create audio also. If anyone else cares to that would be ace. Smile

(Freq/word/POS/meaning/ex.sentence/translation/range count/raw freq total, indication of major register).

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-08

Thanks SegaPupToad! Is that from where I think it's from? I was a fifth of the way through that and up to 3k+ in Anki w/ audio (and was going to hold off till I went through it all) so it could save me a lot of time; between this for the first step and balloonguy's firefox copy/paste plugin for the second step...

I would also switch over to Chinese for others' benefit but I'm too lazy plus they have smart.fm's ~1500 sentences.

french core 2000? - Nemotoad - 2010-04-08

Wow nest0r, you were going to do all 5000 by hand? That's true dedication. Where is the audio from? This is not from the pod by the way, it's from the totally innocent book that you found lying around first off. I haven't read the other thread, but if it involves audio I'll take a look now, thanks!

french core 2000? - Nemotoad - 2010-04-08

Oh, I think I'm confused. I assumed there was some kind of freely available TTS plugin you were talking about.

If we are indeed thinking of the same (harrumph! dictionary), then this should suit your needs right? It's the entire thing, 5000 in total. I think you can just import this into anki now, at least I did... What's the second step? If there's something I'm missing let me know. For example I ignored all the thematic lists (animals etc.) but it's easy enough to do with my script.

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-08

It actually only takes a few minutes, relatively speaking, to do big batches (i.e. from freq. list to Anki). But the initial stage of getting the words into the proper format was the dullest, involving lots of copy/pasting. ;p

And I get the audio from the same place as before, I think I underestimated how much stuff there is. I mean not for every word, but for most of them so far with less duplicates than I thought, though it remains to be seen if this holds up for the least frequent words. As long as I end up with ~6000 sentences I'll be happy. It's just a neurosis thing at this point. ;p

Edit: Oh just read the above comment. I'm glad you ignored those themed things, I have been as well since they don't fit into the frequency numbers. The other steps involve grabbing sentences and audio and sticking into Anki. I discarded the other information for individual words, because I just use StarDict when learning words via the dictionaries one might find where I referenced in the recent Chinese thread.

I'll also probably make a deck from those swac thingies once I'm done. The .xml format is easy enough to parse for Anki. Actually I might not bother since the way they have them set up is good enough as a reference rather than for study... or I'll do something in between.

Edit 2: Maybe someone will post the process they used to make a certain deck if they happen to make another big update which might come shortly but I wouldn't know because that someone is definitely not me, as that would be wrong. Then other someones could use that process to make decks for Chinese, perhaps.

french core 2000? - Nemotoad - 2010-04-08

Well my next two projects (again, when i have time) is to write scripts to pull all audio based on the list I just created, from either the pod people (sentences) and/or swac (words) and automatically remove all duplicates. By pulling audio, I mean just collecting the links so you can import it as remote media in anki, which would do all the downloading for you. However if someone is really already far enough along with this and is feels a kind of zen calm in copying and pasting, then I'd hate to spoil that and duplicate work. :-)

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-09

Nemotoad Wrote:Well my next two projects (again, when i have time) is to write scripts to pull all audio based on the list I just created, from either the pod people (sentences) and/or swac (words) and automatically remove all duplicates. By pulling audio, I mean just collecting the links so you can import it as remote media in anki, which would do all the downloading for you. However if someone is really already far enough along with this and is feels a kind of zen calm in copying and pasting, then I'd hate to spoil that and duplicate work. :-)
Someone was rather far along, and had managed to eliminate all but the initial stage of copy/pasting* (i.e. copy/pasting freq-sorted words into a text to be converted into a certain link format), thanks to a certain Firefox plugin recently created and shared by a certain balloonperson, so it shouldn't take long now, and that person also might have trouble getting remote sound files to play in Anki anyway, per indications in the JDIC sound files thread recently. ;/ But a certain other person might have eliminated that first stage by providing a list of words sorted in a certain way. Whew, I'm confused now. ;p

*Technically there were only two painstaking stages of copy/pasting to begin with.

french core 2000? - Nemotoad - 2010-04-09

Well I'm not sure if I understood either, but wow, brilliant! In that case if someone needs help in any way let a certain person know.

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-09

Nemotoad Wrote:Well I'm not sure if I understood either, but wow, brilliant! In that case if someone needs help in any way let a certain person know.
I'm pretty neurotic, so I'll end up doing the following, unless you feel like doing what we did here for Chinesep--, well you know, I'm sure many people studying Chinese (I think you and I are in the minority here with our excitement for French) would love it... this idea based on: (BROKEN LINK) http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=99862#p99862

french core 2000? - nest0r - 2010-04-09

BTW @Nemotoad, there IS a TTS plugin for Anki for Windows (see Shared Plugins). I just got it working. Nice to have if you want some quick and easy supplementary audio for cards where it's not available. Just hit a key to tell it to play Q or A side, you can specify voices, and customize what special characters to ignore (like one shared deck I acquired has the reading in brackets next to the kanji form of the word, so to keep her (it) from repeating the word twice in a row, you just block opening and closing brackets in the plugin file...

Edit: Loquendo's Bernard and Juliette are great French TTS voices (well as much as any TTS is great)... you can find them 'around'.

french core 2000? - Nemotoad - 2010-04-09

Oh nice... except I'm using MacOS. T_T

I found some open source French TTS voices on this site: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/ which I'm trying to set up but I'm not sure I like the voices as much so maybe I'll check out Loquendo, thanks.

I was going to mention this that I just came across until I realised it uses TTS for the audio, but anyway maybe you'd find it useful for the phrases: http://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-english/porte

There are example sentences but no audio.

french core 2000? - jobhuntingman - 2012-06-17

Since Segapuptoad is no longer with us. Would someone be so kind as to direct me on my spiritual jorney to french illumination?

french core 2000? - Tori-kun - 2012-06-17

Same here Smile

french core 2000? - jobhuntingman - 2013-01-08

French Core: link

french core 2000? - ファブリス - 2013-01-08

Admin: link deleted as per forum guidelines:

Always specify the source for downloads that are linked to file hosting sites such as Rapidshare and such. Links without a modicum of information on the source for the material or the contents of the archive are subject for deletion.



I can't check copyrights of everything that's linked obviously. All that's asked is to properly link to the sources or related materials for those that are interested. Otherwise such links don't belong on a forum, but on a torrent site.

french core 2000? - psychopatate - 2013-01-09

Oh well :/
I'm interested ^^, I've been following this thread for a while now.
jobhuntingman, can you please link us to it somewhere else proper ? (if not, can you e-mail me the link please ?)

french core 2000? - psychopatate - 2013-01-23

Maybe not a French Core 2000, but it's an awesome vocabulary book :
GCSE French Vocabulary Book (pdf) :
http://tinyurl.com/bhayy3x

Smile

french core 2000? - jobhuntingman - 2013-08-25

Sent you a PM.