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Learning vocab ahead of reading? (software for epub analysis) (sh.itjust.works)
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I just jail broke my kindle and have a few epubs and thought maybe this would be a good time to change my approach to vocabulary.

What I'd like to do is learn the vocabulary for my reading before I read it, instead of after, or as I'm reading it.

My dream piece of software would do the following:

  1. resolve all words down to their most basic form (ie, singular for nouns, infinitive for verbs, etc.) (My Language is French)

  2. count occurences of each word

  3. Filter out words I already know

  4. Define the words with a bilingual dictionary to english, including original context sentence.

  5. Make anki cards for me to study.

(6) God-tier programming: also include idiomatic expressions as vocabulary)

Does this exist?

Edit: Or help me assemble a pipe to get all these tasks done separately.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! Vocab sieve looks perfect (though experimental), and it works with KOReader, too. Fuck me, I'm running out of excuses.