After a long time in the making: here it is, the new Swedish-German vocabulary trainer.

While the first version was basically just a dictionary containing my own private and rather incomplete collection of vocabulary entries, I have now added vocabulary training functionality. Some of the features include:

• User registration (done with django-registration)
• Classification of vocabulary entries by three levels (basic, advanced, special vocabulary) and by tags.
• The user can add arbitrary cards to his favorites list (from the search results or during training).
• Flexible selection of cards to be trained:
  •  Level
  •  Favorites
  •  Tags
  • Cards with lowest score or cards that have not been trained for the longest time
• The training scheme is based on the concept of “vocabulary stacks”.
• During training, each vocabulary card is assigned a score according to how well the user remembered the card.

Users should register an account to use the training features, because then the application can keep track of a score and and an ‘age’ for each card. There’s also a guest account for everyone to try out: username ‘gast’, password ‘test’.

I still adhere to the principle that only I can add and edit vocabulary entries. For a vocabulary training application to be useful, its data base of vocabulary must be entered in a very consistent way. There must not, for instance, be duplicate Swedish translations for a given German term. This makes my app quite different from a normal dictionary, where duplicates are the norm. But I hope it’s still useful for dictionary lookup.

Screenshots

Homepage

Training start page

Vocabulary query