Language 80/20 makes learning a foreign languages more efficient by applying the 80/20 rule. Since 80% of a person's daily conversation is derived from roughly 20% of his or her vocabulary, focusing on the most frequently used words is a helpful approach to learning a foreign language.
- Frequency lists of foreign language vocabulary for 12 languages.
- Ajax (for faster page loads) and Pjax (to maintain permalinking and bookmarking).
- Google translations for each word appear in real-time on mouseover.
- JavaScript game to test foreign language knowledge.
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Feel free to submit issues and pull requests! We only ask that you ensure tests are still passing.
Language 80/20 was built by Chris Kohlbrenner, Jisu Kim, and Ariel Caplan as students at the Flatiron School in New York.
MIT License. Copyright 2014 Chris Kohlbrenner, Jisu Kim, and Ariel Caplan.