Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4874 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian
| Message 25 of 131 16 March 2013 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
This is amazing. Thank you for your work.
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Gala Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4569 days ago 229 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian
| Message 26 of 131 19 March 2013 at 11:23pm | IP Logged |
I love it! I think I'll be using the flashcard function a lot. Tried Anki, but it was
much too complicated for me.
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FadedStardust Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5626 days ago 19 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German, Dutch
| Message 27 of 131 21 March 2013 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
From the warm response you've gotten here, it seems you're doing a good job on this project.
However, not many languages are supported (yet) so it's still limited in usefulness. You mentioned that complex
languages such as Thai might never be supported but there are several other languages that could be, such as
more European languages, etc. The language that I would find most useful, for example, is Dutch.
LingQ is expensive and using LWT online is slow, and setting it up and running it locally is a pain, so I am glad to
hear that there are more alternatives popping up!
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lwtproject Pentaglot Senior Member Netherlands https://learning-wit Joined 4911 days ago 149 posts - 264 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, German, English, Mandarin Studies: Italian
| Message 28 of 131 22 March 2013 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
FadedStardust wrote:
... LWT ... setting it up and running it locally is a pain ... |
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It's in fact very easy to set up LWT locally (e.g. on a Windows machine):
1. Download and install EasyPHP
2. Download LWT, unzip, and copy into the www directory of EasyPHP.
3. Rename the file connect_easyphp.inc.php to connect.inc.php.
4. Start EasyPHP and start the local web in your browser.
That's it. I really don't understand why you call this "a pain".
Edited by lwtproject on 22 March 2013 at 10:08am
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5579 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 29 of 131 23 March 2013 at 1:47pm | IP Logged |
lwtproject wrote:
I really don't understand why you call this "a pain". |
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I tried. PHP12.0 is up and running, the traffic lights are green, lwt_v_1_4_10 is in the www directory, connect.inc.php file renamed, browser fails to find connection to 127.0.0.1/lwt.
Does it require dot net? Are there any firewall implications? Is there a trouble shooting guide?
The readlang site looks nice.
Edit: Aha, my local server address seems to be: 127.0.0.1:8887
LWT looks nice too.
Edited by schoenewaelder on 25 March 2013 at 4:31pm
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lwtproject Pentaglot Senior Member Netherlands https://learning-wit Joined 4911 days ago 149 posts - 264 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, German, English, Mandarin Studies: Italian
| Message 30 of 131 23 March 2013 at 6:45pm | IP Logged |
schoenewaelder wrote:
PHP12.0 is up and running, the traffic lights are green, lwt_v_1_4_10 is in the www
directory, connect.inc.php file renamed, browser fails to find connection to 127.0.0.1/lwt. |
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If you don't use EasyPHP, the procedures and/or the URL may be different.
If you don't rename lwt_v_1_4_10 to lwt, the URL is different: http://..../lwt_v_1_4_10 .
Please look into the documentation, and/or look or ask in the
help forum.
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No, just MySQL, PHP and of course Apache.
No, everything is behind your firewall.
Yes: http://lwt.sourceforge.net/.
Edited by lwtproject on 23 March 2013 at 6:49pm
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SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4301 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 31 of 131 23 March 2013 at 7:55pm | IP Logged |
FadedStardust wrote:
However, not many languages are supported (yet) so it's still limited in usefulness. You mentioned that complex
languages such as Thai might never be supported but there are several other languages that could be, such as
more European languages, etc. The language that I would find most useful, for example, is Dutch.
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I've just updated the site, which now includes more languages, including Dutch :)
There's also a new sidebar which can be opened from the reader page, where you can look up a more detailed translation in
Word Reference (if your language pair is supported, it supports translating between English and the more popular
languages). In this sidebar you can also edit or delete the most recently generated flashcard.
Hope you like it, and please keep the feedback coming. I'm especially keen to hear about any bugs or problems you
encounter.
(If you want to post feedback outside this forum, you can do so here: http://readlang.uservoice.com)
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senor_smile Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6405 days ago 110 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Russian
| Message 32 of 131 25 March 2013 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
Might I recommend www . mijnwoordenboek . nl
for the Dutch sidebar dictionary? Superb work so far on this tool. This is amazing.
Any thoughts of open sourcing it to be hosted a la lwt?
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