Hello everyone,

If I need to post this at the anki forum I'll do it, but I thought that maybe there are people here who might take up this challenge

I know that many of you RvTK folks out there are computer programmers. I have a really big favor to ask and I'm hoping someone can help me.

Could someone make a plugin for anki that works exactly like the "Example Sentence" plugin except that it provides ENGLISH example sentences (not Japanese)?

I'm studying for the GRE and there are lots of English words that I would like an example sentence for. I have been looking them up individually online but it takes soo much time. I mean, I can't really complain too much but it does take about 1 minute per card just to find and enter the example sentence. If only someone were kind enough to make this! I know it would benefit many other people besides me!

any beneficent people out there?

I'm studying for GMAT.. I would use this.

...where would the sample sentences come from?

I get my sentence examples from http://examples.yourdictionary.com/beneficent

I have no idea how to program stuff so I was hoping that someone would be able to tell me how to do it. haha.

I wouldn't use anki to study for the GMAT. It doesn't test vocabulary the way the GRE does.

Hmmm, I've been meaning to try and write a plug for Anki, just to see how to do it. Really want to make one that allows you to learn vocab in groups of 6-10, similar to smart.fm (love their learning tool, hate their srs algorithms).

This would be a simpler task, so I'll look into it - but can't promise anything (just finished Masters degree, so quite lazy at the moment..)

Posts from last year:

How to make an English example sentences plugin for Anki 1

How to make an English example sentences plugin for Anki 2

The best resources for English example sentences (LDOCE is the best)

The definition tester

ahibba Wrote:Posts from last year:

How to make an English example sentences plugin for Anki 1

How to make an English example sentences plugin for Anki 2

The best resources for English example sentences (LDOCE is the best)

The definition tester

thanks for the links ahibba, I copied this and made a post at the anki forums about it so hopefully someone here or there would be willing to take this on. I have never done any type of programming in my life so it would be too daunting of a task to try to do myself. It would be faster just to look up each sentence and put them in my deck then to try to learn python or whatever.

If anyone is willing to make this but needs me to collect something just tell me what to do and if I can do it I will.

aphasiac Wrote:Hmmm, I've been meaning to try and write a plug for Anki, just to see how to do it. Really want to make one that allows you to learn vocab in groups of 6-10, similar to smart.fm (love their learning tool, hate their srs algorithms).

This would be a simpler task, so I'll look into it - but can't promise anything (just finished Masters degree, so quite lazy at the moment..)

if you would do this then I would be very very happy and I know many others would also be grateful. I can help you with as much as I can, so if you need me to locate something or whatever just tell me and I'll do it!

biazzarojosh Wrote:It would be faster just to look up each sentence and put them in my deck then to try to learn python or whatever.

I'm too not a programmer, but with some effort, we can solve our problems.

I have an alternative solution. Send me your GRE wordlist, and I will try to extract the example sentences from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English using my unsophisticated method in Excel.

Hey, started learning Python today. All seems straightforward; the Anki plugin api is well documented, and I can cheat and peek at code from the other example sentence plugins.

Not sure whether to use example sentences from online or from a local dictionary - maybe both? Or maybe the user gets a choice - we shall see.

aphasiac Wrote:Hey, started learning Python today.

which programming languages do you "speak" already?

aphasiac Wrote:Really want to make one that allows you to learn vocab in groups of 6-10, similar to smart.fm (love their learning tool, hate their srs algorithms).

any news?

ahibba Wrote:

aphasiac Wrote:Hey, started learning Python today.

which programming languages do you "speak" already?

Java, C, C++, C#, Perl, SQL, Actionscript 3, PHP. Also currently learning Objective-C (I'm writing an IPhone game).

Maybe sounds impressive, but it's not; programming langauges are kinda like spoken languages - once you know one or two, it's easy to learn more.

ahibba Wrote:any news?

No, haven't started! but it will be done, and it will be exactly like smart.fm i.e. be shown groups of 5-10 words, then user gets tested:
kana -> english
kanji -> english
english -> kana
kanji -> english spelling (closed deletion)

only after passing these 4 steps do you get to add the vocab card/setence to the main deck.
Also is there even a multiple choice answer mode or plugin for anki? Really got used to it now - that needs to be made too.

wow aphasiac, if you can learn python that quick then that is awesome! I'm sure you will make a great plugin! Just for some motivation let me just say *the future of the english example sentence plugin rests in your hands; it's up to you!*

haha, jk. well, maybe not.

Shameless bump

This may help: I made a big txt file containing all example sentences from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (@bizarrojosh: this time it's very clean ) and I made another file with the examples from Cobuild Collins Advanced Learner's Dictionary. I will combine both into one file.

I think it will be easier to program a plugin that read the combined txt file for any line/lines containing the word, and copy it to the example sentence field in the deck, than trying to program a plugin that extract the examples from the dictionaries or websites.

That's great news ahibba, now if only someone could make this work

where are you, aphasiac?

@aphasiac: I know you're busy these days, just confirm that you're still alive.