{"id":695,"date":"2023-04-06T17:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.magnusmanske.de\/?p=695"},"modified":"2023-04-06T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:02:05","slug":"cram-as-cram-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/archives\/695","title":{"rendered":"Cram as cram can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am trying to learn (modern) Greek, for reasons. I have books, and online classes, and the usual apps. But what I was missing was a simple way to rehearse common words. My thoughts went to Wikidata items, and then to lexemes. Lexemes are something I have not worked with a lot, so this seemed like a good opportunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/pauken.toolforge.org\/\"><strong>Pauken<\/strong><\/a> (German for <em>to cram<\/em>) is the result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-06-at-16.27.18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-696\" src=\"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-06-at-16.27.18-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-06-at-16.27.18-300x206.png 300w, http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-06-at-16.27.18-1024x704.png 1024w, http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-06-at-16.27.18-768x528.png 768w, http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-06-at-16.27.18.png 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I decided to start with nouns. Nouns have probably a corresponding Wikidata item, like &#8220;dog&#8221;. A small number of (somehow related) items makes for a nice learning exercise. I <em>could<\/em> just take the label in the language to be learned, and be done. <em>Or<\/em>, I could make it more complicated! So, given a small set of items to learn, I am using the &#8220;item for this sense&#8221; property on lexemes to link them. Then, I use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lexeme label, pronounciation audio, and gammatical gender<\/li>\n<li>item image, and (as a fallback) label<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>to generate entries on a page. These will show the image from the item, or the label in the &#8220;known&#8221; language (which I determine by the browser settings) as a fallback. There are currently two modes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Reveal<\/em> shows you the entries, with images and audio (where available), but with the label as &#8220;???&#8221;. You can try to recall the correct label, then click on the image, and the label (and grammatical gender) will be revealed. Another click hides it again.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pick<\/em> hides everything except the image, and offers an audio &#8220;play&#8221; button, with a randomly chosen pronounciation audio. Play the audio, then click the correct image; it will mark a correct answer in green, or a wrong one in red (with the correct one in blue). The color marking will disappear after a moment, and the next random audio will play automatically (so you dont have to click the &#8220;play&#8221; button all the time).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a simple working demo, but already quite useful IMHO. But beyond learning a language, you are also encouraged to add and edit lexemes; a missing lexeme, or rather no lexeme linking to the item, will show in a traditional red link. A lexeme with missing pronounciation audio will show a microphone, linking to <a href=\"https:\/\/lingualibre.org\">lingualibre.org<\/a>, so you can record the missing audio.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the example links on the main page of the tool can be improved by editing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Wikidata:Pauken\/template\">Wikidata<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am trying to learn (modern) Greek, for reasons. I have books, and online classes, and the usual apps. But what I was missing was a simple way to rehearse common words. My thoughts went to Wikidata items, and then to lexemes. Lexemes are something I have not worked with a lot, so this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikidata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magnusmanske.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}