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vocabboost
·5 anni fa·discuss
I've been developing a Chrome extension for learning foreign language vocabulary from sites you love - http://vocabboost.online/. Basically, it makes fill-in-the-blanks quiz out of any webpage. It is language agnostic (just relies on word separators), so it works with almost all languages. Users asked to support Japanese, so I use TinySegmenter for Japanese word separation. Recently I added a word bank feature to save interesting words and export them.
vocabboost
·5 anni fa·discuss
Thank you! I wasn't aware of this keyword! Yeah, discoverability is a problem.
vocabboost
·5 anni fa·discuss
I am developing a browser extension to make a fill-in-the-blank language test out of any webpage.

I personally used this to improve my German vocabulary. This way one can learn new words from materials they naturally enjoy (vs boring text books).

The extension is available for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vocabboost/obgbcam...? Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vocabboost/

There is also a video example here: http://vocabboost.online/.
vocabboost
·5 anni fa·discuss
I've published a free beta extension. Please see the link and instructions on the site. I would appreciate your feedback.
vocabboost
·5 anni fa·discuss
Thank you! My crux was to expand the vocabulary using texts I enjoy (not the testing itself). One could call this "very active reading", where I try to fill in words from the context.
vocabboost
·5 anni fa·discuss
I am developing https://vocab-boost.online/ (smoke test page, extension is being reviewed in webstore). It is a Chrome extension to make language tests out of any page. I used this approach to improve my vocabular to pass German C1 exam.