Anki 2.0, Esperanto, and GitHub
Tue, Apr 24, 2012
Recently, I had become aware that Anki 2.0 was in beta through my friend Tom, who is working on making some changes to the MCD Support plugin so that it supports languages like Spanish as well as it does Japanese.
Exporting Terms to Anki from Learning With Texts
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
If you’ve been keeping up with the language learning scene online, you have probably heard of Learning With Texts (LWT), which is software to assist you in studying foreign language text.
The Wonder of Critical Frequency
Fri, Jan 7, 2011
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
About two weeks ago, in an effort to increase my Esperanto vocabulary, I signed up for lernu.
Verifying that an MP3 File is valid in Python
Fri, Sep 10, 2010
This post is a result of many attempts at trying to find an existing solution, deciding that nothing did what I needed, and writing the code myself.
Jes, Mi Lernas Esperanton - Yes, I'm Learning Esperanto
Tue, Aug 31, 2010
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Consider this an admission of guilt. I am learning Esperanto . Esperanto has both its critics and proponents in the language learning community, which initially bothered me.
Use tatoeba.org for mining sentences
Thu, Aug 26, 2010
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Usually when I am reading in Spanish, and I find a word I don’t know and can’t figure out from context, I look it up in a dictionary.
Esperanto Support Plugin for Anki
Thu, Aug 5, 2010
So I decided to learn Esperanto, which as an avid user of the SRS application Anki, meant I needed to either enter Esperanto’s special characters (ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, ŭ) into my flash cards, which can’t easily be typed with the US International keyboard layout, or I could deal with the ugly “x method” workaround (cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux).
Foreign Language Audio on Demand at RhinoSpike.com
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
So aside from my day job and my family, I’ve been keeping myself busy since December working on a project with my friend Thomas that we’ve released to the public just a few weeks ago.
I am starting to learn Japanese, not for fluency, but for travel.
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Within the last few months, I decided that I am finally going to get some international travel under my belt.
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Welcome to the first post of a new series at Babelhut.com, Spanish Verb Highlight.
This post was originally posted on Babelhut.
Today I received yet another envelope from Time Warner Cable addressed to “Peter Carroll or Current Resident,” which was seconds from being thrown in the trash can when I decided to open it.
Barra de Español 1.2 is now available!
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
The newest version of Barra de Español, version 1.2, is now available! See details about what’s new in this version in my post on Babelhut.