Learning with Texts (LWT) is a self-hosted web application for learning languages through reading. It is a community-maintained development of the original LWT project.
Import your own texts or discover reading material suited to your level. Unknown words are highlighted while reading; click a word to look it up, save its meaning and build your vocabulary in context.
LWT supports more than 40 languages and combines contextual reading with spaced repetition, progress tracking and integrated audio.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Import texts in the language you are learning.
- Discover books from Project Gutenberg ranked by estimated difficulty.
- Browse curated RSS news feeds covering numerous languages.
- Highlight unknown words while reading.
- Look up words and phrases using integrated dictionaries.
- Pre-enrich vocabulary with definitions and translations from Wiktionary.
- Save words and multi-word expressions together with their translations and context.
- Track words using different learning status levels.
- Review vocabulary using spaced repetition while retaining the original sentence context.
- Estimate the difficulty of texts from your existing vocabulary.
- Adapt reading recommendations as your vocabulary develops.
- Bulk translate new words.
- Use text-to-speech to hear words pronounced.
- Associate audio with texts and retain playback position.
- Embed video alongside learning material.
- Handle languages using Roman, right-to-left and East Asian writing systems.
- Special handling for Japanese and Chinese word segmentation.
- Select and save longer phrases and expressions.
- Track reading and vocabulary statistics.
- Resume texts from the previous reading position.
- Export vocabulary to Anki.
- Import and export vocabulary using CSV/TSV files.
- Responsive interface suitable for phones and tablets.
- Configurable themes and keyboard shortcuts.
Website: github.com/HugoFara/learning-with-texts
Support:
Developer: Learning with Texts Community
License: The Unlicense
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