#JLDrill - Japanese Language Drill program
JLDrill is a program for helping people drill aspects of the Japanese language using spaced repetition.
Note: JLDrill is an old project and has suffered from bitrot. It no longer works properly. I hope I will find time to bring it back to the living...
##Features
- spaced repetition
- a dictionary cross reference tool
- pop-up kanji reference (inspired by rikaichan for Firefox)
- ability to import EDICT format files (EUC or UTF8 encoded) as a drill
- The Tanaka corpus example sentences can be shown for vocabulary
- A popup dictionary lookup tool with deinflection (again inspired by rikaichan for Firefox)
Current drills include:
- a kana drill
- JLPT vocabulary drills (These are the old 1, 2, 3, 4 lists NOT the new N1, N2, N3, N4, N5 lists)
##User Documentation Complete user documentation including installation instructions is available in the project. JLDrill used to be hosted on rubyforge and the last released version (many years ago) is still there as of this writing: http://jldrill.rubyforge.org
##Building More instructions will come later, but for the moment, I recommend installing rbenv or another ruby version manager. To install:
gem install bundler
bundle install
To run: ./AppRun
##License
JLDrill is copyright (C) 2005-2008 Mike Charlton. It is licensed under version 3.0 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Please see the COPYING File for more details. Previous versions of JLDrill were released under version 2.0 of the GPL and you may choose that version if you wish. However version 3.0 represents a major improvement in clearing up ambiguous details, so I highly recommend choosing GPL 3.0 if you wish to extend this software.
License information for the various support files (dictionary, drills, etc.) are located in the data/jldrill/COPYING directory.
##TODO
The TODO file is maintained in an Emacs Org mode file. Org mode is a mode of emacs that allows you to easily organize data. The original file is text based and is easily readable and editable with any editor. But to publish the html file you need Emacs. The current published HTML file is here.
##Getting Involved
While I have built JLDrill on the work of others, as an entity on its own, I have mostly been the sole contributor. There are many reasons for this, but regardless I am very enthusiastic about receiving any kind of contribution from other people. Even if you can't write software, there are many ways you can contribute. I want to encourage this as much as possible.
Please address any comments, suggestions, corrections and patches to: mailto://mikekchar@gmail.com
I'm also very interested in receiving any new drills you may come up with. Please make sure to specify the license information for any material you send to me.