Hi All,
I recently explored Lingq's free account options out of curiosity and found it pretty interesting. One of the features that I really really loved is the highlighting of words that are being studied as they appear in _any_ future content. Once you mark a word as one you'd like to study it shows up yellow-highlighted and then if you read any other content and that word is present it will still be highlighted.
While longing for some desktop-based Lingq-like software I randomly stumbled across "learning with texts" via the RtK wiki and it seemed very promising, an almost complete and even more robust Lingq-like software suite -- for free! I set it up and got it working (a lot easier than it seems via the install description) and the only major let down is that it doesn't parse Japanese automatically. So I went from thinking Lingq's Japanese parser really sucks to "at least it works".
Has anyone else explored using Japanese texts with "learning with texts"? Is there any good way to get Japanese texts parsed for use with such software?
Alternately, is there any interest, inclination, or existence of a browser plugin that maintains a list of "words currently being studied" that appear highlighted whenever they are present _anywhere_?
It seems with all the modifications that Rikaichan has undergone that we're _almost_ there, and that rikaichan's parser is pretty awesome...
Anyway, this is really just a longish way to say I wish there was a plugin that interactively highlighted or de-highlighted words I was studying across all content -- the current lookup and import to anki features with various software/plugin are sufficient. Using the "Learning with Languages" software would be super awesome for managing audio and a comprehensive archive of documents read, etc but isn't absolutely necessary...
Here's the link for reference. Thanks for any suggestions!
http://lwt.sourceforge.net/
K.
p.s. For reference and discussion of methods, what I currently do to study and archive my reading is as follows:
1) create a text file for a month of the year
2) any content from the web of interest is copy-pasted into text file
3) read text file in yomichan, creating cards on the go.
4) update text file as the days go by
5) at the end of the month, start a new text file (e.g. "2011.08_jp_reading.txt")
I put the URL of each content pasted in and that's that. Yomichan is really great for integration to anki and I like the "non-procrastination" continuous text file thing -- it keeps growing, I keep chipping away at it. Everything I want to read gets read, eventually. (This was my solution to having ten million browser tabs open of Japanese content I wanted to read).
6) optional step: when reviewing the cards from yomichan, add a J-J definition, which is one more quick copy-paste via OSX's native Japanese dictionary.
I recently explored Lingq's free account options out of curiosity and found it pretty interesting. One of the features that I really really loved is the highlighting of words that are being studied as they appear in _any_ future content. Once you mark a word as one you'd like to study it shows up yellow-highlighted and then if you read any other content and that word is present it will still be highlighted.
While longing for some desktop-based Lingq-like software I randomly stumbled across "learning with texts" via the RtK wiki and it seemed very promising, an almost complete and even more robust Lingq-like software suite -- for free! I set it up and got it working (a lot easier than it seems via the install description) and the only major let down is that it doesn't parse Japanese automatically. So I went from thinking Lingq's Japanese parser really sucks to "at least it works".
Has anyone else explored using Japanese texts with "learning with texts"? Is there any good way to get Japanese texts parsed for use with such software?
Alternately, is there any interest, inclination, or existence of a browser plugin that maintains a list of "words currently being studied" that appear highlighted whenever they are present _anywhere_?
It seems with all the modifications that Rikaichan has undergone that we're _almost_ there, and that rikaichan's parser is pretty awesome...
Anyway, this is really just a longish way to say I wish there was a plugin that interactively highlighted or de-highlighted words I was studying across all content -- the current lookup and import to anki features with various software/plugin are sufficient. Using the "Learning with Languages" software would be super awesome for managing audio and a comprehensive archive of documents read, etc but isn't absolutely necessary...
Here's the link for reference. Thanks for any suggestions!
http://lwt.sourceforge.net/
K.
p.s. For reference and discussion of methods, what I currently do to study and archive my reading is as follows:
1) create a text file for a month of the year
2) any content from the web of interest is copy-pasted into text file
3) read text file in yomichan, creating cards on the go.
4) update text file as the days go by
5) at the end of the month, start a new text file (e.g. "2011.08_jp_reading.txt")
I put the URL of each content pasted in and that's that. Yomichan is really great for integration to anki and I like the "non-procrastination" continuous text file thing -- it keeps growing, I keep chipping away at it. Everything I want to read gets read, eventually. (This was my solution to having ten million browser tabs open of Japanese content I wanted to read).
6) optional step: when reviewing the cards from yomichan, add a J-J definition, which is one more quick copy-paste via OSX's native Japanese dictionary.