LinguaCafe is a self-hosted web application for language learners that helps them read foreign-language texts, look up unfamiliar words and phrases, and review vocabulary afterwards.
It supports a wide range of languages, can import material from several text and subtitle sources, and is designed to make extensive reading more practical from a browser on desktop or mobile devices.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Imports reading material from plain text, text files, e-book files, YouTube subtitles, subtitle files, Jellyfin external subtitles, and webpages.
- Organizes imported content as books and chapters, with counts for unique, known, highlighted, and new words to help estimate difficulty.
- Offers multiple in-reader vocabulary views, including sidebar, popup, bottom sheet, and hover vocabularies.
- Lets users save words and multi-word phrases, search and edit vocabulary, and export vocabulary entries.
- Includes a review system with spaced repetition similar to the Leitner system, with support for exporting highlighted cards to Anki or other SRS software.
- Tracks daily reading, highlighting, and review goals, with progress shown over time and all-time statistics.
- Supports text-to-speech in compatible browsers for both the text reader and review pages.
- Provides light, dark, and e-ink themes, customizable colors, optional custom fonts, and Progressive Web App support for mobile and tablet use.
- Supports 27 languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Welsh.
- Designed for self-hosting with Docker-based installation.
Website: github.com/simjanos-dev/LinguaCafe
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Developer: simjanos-dev
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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