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Wordza: Language Learning Flashcards offers:
Text to speech, speech recognition, stock word lists, and user submitted customizable lists.
Wordza was a progressive web application I built in collaboration with Joshua Rubin after having traveled around Ukraine for over a month. I’ve always had an interest in the Russian language since I was a child. I found the Cyrillic alphabet fascinating with it’s classic communistic block typeface and similar looking characters to the Latin alphabet. In my travels I realized that if I knew English, Spanish, and Russian that I would be able to speak to someone almost anywhere in the world.
With that ideal in mind, I began searching for language learning software! I soon found out that if you know the 1,000 most commonly used words in a language you can roughly understand the gist of 60% of what is said. This was a powerful concept in my mind. I would seek to learn the top 1,000 most commonly used words followed by grammar and natural conversation practice.
I was unable to find flashcard software that suited my three basic criteria:
Allow for my own custom submitted word lists in addition to containing the top 1,000 most commonly spoken words.
Automatic speech of the word or phrase by a native language sounding speaker via text to speech (TTS).
Speech recognition of my spoken word and matching of my pronunciation with that of the text to speech.
With that discovery, Wordza: Language Flashcards was born!
Wordza: Language Learning Flashcards offers:
Text to speech, speech recognition, stock word lists, and user submitted customizable lists.
Wordza was a progressive web application I built in collaboration with Joshua Rubin after having traveled around Ukraine for over a month. I’ve always had an interest in the Russian language since I was a child. I found the Cyrillic alphabet fascinating with it’s classic communistic block typeface and similar looking characters to the Latin alphabet. In my travels I realized that if I knew English, Spanish, and Russian that I would be able to speak to someone almost anywhere in the world.
With that ideal in mind, I began searching for language learning software! I soon found out that if you know the 1,000 most commonly used words in a language you can roughly understand the gist of 60% of what is said. This was a powerful concept in my mind. I would seek to learn the top 1,000 most commonly used words followed by grammar and natural conversation practice.
I was unable to find flashcard software that suited my three basic criteria:
Allow for my own custom submitted word lists in addition to containing the top 1,000 most commonly spoken words.
Automatic speech of the word or phrase by a native language sounding speaker via text to speech (TTS).
Speech recognition of my spoken word and matching of my pronunciation with that of the text to speech.
With that discovery, Wordza: Language Flashcards was born!
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