language-learning-tools

Tools to help with learning languages.

Disclaimer

This is not meant to be hosted for public users because it fetches data directly from dictionary websites. It's built to create Anki cards for personal usage.

The code is also of prototype quality because it's not meant to be ran in production.

Tools

Anki Miner

A frontend for creating Anki cards given a list of words.

Setup

Install AnkiConnect
Add http://localhost:3000 to AnkiConnect webCorsOriginList
Make sure the Note type ankiminer_jp exists, check frontend/anki/src/app/api.ts for the format
Update the deck name in frontend/anki/src/app/api.ts if using a different deck name
Make sure to use Syosetu scraper to build a corpus to find example sentences
Copy a google_credentials.json file into the project containing a JSON key for Google Cloud platform
Run the frontend and API

# Frontend
cd frontend/anki
yarn dev

# API
make run

Preview

Syosetu scraper

go run cmd/scrape_syosetu/main.go --help
Usage of /var/folders/fw/0wq08yqd3fgd69t86wv72l040000gn/T/go-build4010932054/b001/exe/main:
  -end int
        the ending chapter (default 10)
  -series string
        the code of a series (default "n6316bn")
  -start int
        the starting chapter (default 1)

Example

# Download the first 50 chapters of Mushoku Tensei
go run cmd/scrape_syosetu/main.go -series n9669bk -end 50

Search for word in corpus

go run cmd/find_sentence/main.go -word これから

Extract manga from EPUB

go run cmd/extract_epub/main.go '/tmp/manga.epub'