LinguaCafe is a self-hosted software that helps language learners read foreign languages.
LinguaCafe
LinguaCafe is a free self-hosted software that helps language learners acquire vocabulary by reading. It provides a set of tools to read, look up unknown words and review them later as effortlessly as possible.
You can read about all the features of LinguaCafe on the overview GitHub Page, and on the user manual GitHub Wiki page.
Language support
Supported languages: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.
You can find a detailed list about what level of support different languages have on the GitHub Wiki page.
Supported platforms:
- x64, which includes most desktop computers made in the last decade.
- Mac users with Apple silicon must perform an additional step, see the 'Installation' section for details
Other Armv8 devices such as Raspberry Pis 3 and newer do not work at the moment.
Memory usage
LinguaCafe uses RAM based on how many and which languages do you use. If you use every language, the RAM usage can be over 2GB.
Installation
You can find the installation guide on the GitHub Wiki page.
Updating to the latest version
You can find the updating guide on the GitHub Wiki page.
Active development disclaimer
[!NOTE] LinguaCafe is still in active development, you might encounter some bugs while using the software. Please test it before you start actively using it, and make sure it is up to your expectations. At this time only one user/server is supported.
Contact information
Discord user: linguacafe_47757
Subreddit: /r/linguacafe
E-mail: simjanos.dev@gmail.com
Attributions
LinguaCafe uses many public resources. I am very thankful for these projects and for all the people who were working on them. They helped me greatly to create LinguaCafe.
Spacy tokenizer
License: MIT license
Pykakasi
License: License: GNU General Public License 3
Pinyin
License: MIT license
Newspaper3k
License: MIT, Apache-2.0
EbookLib
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
JMDict dictionary file
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
KANJIDIC2 kanji file
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
CC-CEDICT dictionary file
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
CC-CEDICT website CC-CEDICT license
HanDeDict dictionary file
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany License
HanDeDict website HanDeDict license
Kengdic dictionary file
License: GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0
Kengdic github Kengdic license
Eurfa dictionary file
License: The GNU General Public License 3
Eurfa download website Eurfa bitbucket Eurfa creator's website Eurfa license
Wiktionary
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
The specific wiktionary files that LinguaCafe uses have been downloaded from this GitHub repository.
Dict.cc
LinguaCafe has no dict.cc dictionaries packaged in the software. It only provides a link to the dict.cc website.
RADKFILE/KRADFILE
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DMAK kanji drawing library
License: MIT license
KanjiVG License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported