Vokabi project aims to create an application that allows non-native speakers to improve their vocabulary skills while working with any english texts - for example while surfing the web, working, studying. In that way users can learn what they actually need.

If you have trouble understanding a text or single words, copy it to vokabi application. The program will look up the diffcult words and expressions (it has an embedded full-size dictionary) to help you understand the text. The program also records all the words and expressions you look up. You can later decide which of them are important to learn. You can then learn the words from your list by doing interactive exercises. The program will generate the exercises on-the-fly. An important feature is that the program keeps track of the words you know so it can prepare exercises that match your current vocabulary level!     Read more in concept.pdf

The current application may not offer all the features but it's already worth trying. We appreciate any feedback, don't hesistate to contact us.

2006-05-25
Developers wanted! There's still a lot to do to in this project - please check the docs. If you want to help, please contact us!

2006-04-22
The first working version with automatic interactive exercises is released!

Features:
- lookup words/expressions in the embedded dictionary.
- add words to the list
- generate 5 types of interactive exercises
- basic edit of the list
- capture texts from clipboard
- released under GPL license

Installation instructions:

Binaries:
Static Win32 binary package (vokabi-win32-*.zip):
Unzip the file in any directory and dclick app.exe to run it.
The package contains a file with example words to learn.

Sources:
Source package (vokabi-*.tar.gz) + dictionary (wn20.tar.gz):
Requirements: wxPython, pywordnet, wordnet ()
Unpack the vokabi* package, then unpack wn20.tar.gz inside the directory.
The program has been tested on win32 and Linux

Go to downloads page

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	Main application window
	Look up and browse dictionary
	Dictionary window
	Word sense description
	Exercises
	Overview of trained words
	Example exercise: assign words to example sentencess
	Example exercise: join similar words