benmanone / minicloze

Rust-based command-line language-learning game. Uses the Tatoeba database.

minicloze

A command-line cloze-based language-learning game using the Tatoeba database of sentences. Written in Rust. The name is a reference to the Clozemaster app. This repository contains the Cargo workspace for minicloze.

Features

• Support for over 400 languages
• Lookup unfamiliar words on Wiktionary
• Support for MacOS, Linux and Windows
• Lean implementation, written in pure Rust

Targets

• Long-term
• Build a FOSS version of Clozemaster
• Short-term
• Learn 100, 1000 etc. most common words of various languages
• Play between two non-English languages

Installation

To install minicloze-cli, the only currently supported frontend, use cargo install minicloze (more likely to be up-to-date) or just download a release.

Usage

For minicloze-cli, just pass in the language (from www.tatoeba.org) you want to use, e.g. minicloze french. Add inverse for inverse mode (minicloze french inverse).

Contributing

Any help is very welcome, just open a PR or an issue and I'll probably be able to reply quickly. Right now the focus is on expanding from the basic idea into a more fully-fledged and user friendly experience.

Tatoeba Licensing

All sentences are from Tatoeba (www.tatoeba.org). Tatoeba's data is released under the CC-BY 2.0 FR license.

minicloze's Issues

Japanese

It only does a single character for Japanese, including considering the 。 period as a word.

minicloze japanese

I'll explain the above screenshot, just for clarity.

In the first question, を is a particle, not a word. But that's okay.

In the second question, ト is the first character of the word トム Tom.

In the third question, I guessed ね because it was a likely sentence ending particle although it wasn't in the English text. The answer was 。 which is the Japanese equivalent of the . period character.