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minicloze

A command-line cloze-based language-learning game using the Tatoeba database of sentences. Written in Rust. The name is a reference to the Clozemaster app. This repository contains the Cargo workspace for minicloze.

Features

Support for over 400 languages
Lookup unfamiliar words on Wiktionary
Support for MacOS, Linux and Windows
Lean implementation, written in pure Rust

Targets

Long-term
Build a FOSS version of Clozemaster
Short-term
Learn 100, 1000 etc. most common words of various languages
Play between two non-English languages

Installation

To install minicloze-cli, the only currently supported frontend, use cargo install minicloze (more likely to be up-to-date) or just download a release.

Usage

For minicloze-cli, just pass in the language (from www.tatoeba.org) you want to use, e.g. minicloze french. Add inverse for inverse mode (minicloze french inverse).

Example of use with French

Contributing

Any help is very welcome, just open a PR or an issue and I'll probably be able to reply quickly. Right now the focus is on expanding from the basic idea into a more fully-fledged and user friendly experience.

Tatoeba Licensing

All sentences are from Tatoeba (www.tatoeba.org). Tatoeba's data is released under the CC-BY 2.0 FR license.