Languages

DeepL Translate is nice.

Links

• BabelNet - Multilingual resource that covers hundreds of languages and, according to need, can be used as either an encyclopedic dictionary, or a semantic network, or a huge knowledge base.
• Awesome Linguistics
• How I Learned French in 12 Months (2020) (HN)
• LibreLingo - Experiment to create a community driven language-learning platform.
• A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading
• Toucan - Teaches you new skills while you browse the web.
• Unker Non-Linear Writing System (Lobsters)
• Notation and thought - Collection of quotes on notation design & how it affects thought.
• Repo to track the evolution of notation in arts and sciences
• Twitter account that renames everyday objects
• Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape Beyond One's Conceptual Reach (2018)
• All or nothing: No half-Merge and the evolution of syntax - Noam Chomsky (2019)
• European Language Grid - European Languages Datasets.
• Ask HN: Can someone talk me out of learning new languages (2020)
• Inuttitut, a language shaped by humility, poetry, and the land (2020) (HN)
• Notes on Learning Languages (HN)
• To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) (HN)
• Rebuilding the most popular spellchecker (2021)
• Who Invented the Alphabet? (2021) (HN)
• How to Teach Yourself a Foreign Language
• LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. (Code) (HN)
• Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (2015) (HN)
• Duolingo's language notes all on one page (HN)
• How to learn a language (and stick at it)
• Interlinear Books - Bringing Literature to Language Learners.
• SelfStudyClassics - Online Latin course.
• Learning dutch (2021)
• Mouse Dictionary - Super fast dictionary for language learners as Chrome/Firefox extension. (Code)
• Fluent - Learn languages by browsing the web.
• What did ancient languages sound like? (2021) (HN)
• Language Learning Resources
• Reverso Context - Translation in context.
• CopyTranslator - Foreign language reading and translation assistant based on copy and translate.
• The Fastest Way to Learn a New Language: The Video Game Map Theory (2021)
• Forgetting My First Language (2021) (HN)
• Speaking Latin (2021) (HN)
• All World Languages in One Visualization, By Native Speakers (Reddit) (Tweet)
• LanguageTool - Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker. (Twitter) (Dev) (HN)
• How to Write a Spelling Corrector (2007) (In Go)
• PostgreSQL Translation Proxy - PostgreSQL / PostgREST proxy to Google Translate API, with caching and multiphrase support.
• Divvun.org - Языковые инструменты для языков коренных народов и меньшинств. (GitHub)
• This Word Does Not Exist (HN)
• Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take (2021) (HN)
• Holmes - Information extraction from English and German texts based on predicate logic.
• Unbabel - Seamless Multilingual Translation Services.
• WantWords - Open-source online reverse dictionary. (Code)
• Free Dictionary API (Code)
• Sheldon - Very Simple Erlang Spell Checker. (Article)
• Learning with Texts - Free translation software.
• Trunk - Tool for learning new languages. It is inspired by Learning With Texts.
• DictPress - Stand-alone, single-binary server application for building and publishing dictionary websites.
• Help Is This Arabic? (HN)
• typos - Source code spell checker.
• Does Not Translate - Concepts that don't easily translate to any other language. (Reddit)
• Hunspell - Free spell checker and morphological analyzer library and command-line tool. (Web)
• Hunspell-asm - WebAssembly based JavaScript bindings for hunspell spellchecker.
• NNSplit - Tool to split text using a neural network. Main application is sentence boundary detection. (Code)
• From Greek to Latin: Visualizing the Evolution of the Alphabet
• Best Wordle guessing strategy (HN)
• Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far (2022) (HN)
• spellsitter.nvim - Treesitter powered spellchecker.
• Finding optimal play in the game of wordle
• Wordles of the World (HN)
• Why are letters shaped the way they are? (HN)
• Machine Translation Conferences & Journals
• Gruut - Tokenizer, text cleaner, and phonemizer for many human languages.
• zdict - CLI dictionary framework mainly focus on any kind of online dictionary.
• DeepL Python Library - Python library for the DeepL language translation API.
• Wordle Global - 62 languages available (Code)
• WordPlay - Word guessing game similar to the web game Wordle.
• Machine Translate - Open resources and community for machine translation. (Code)
• Wordle Analyzer (Code)
• Chatterbug - Learn Languages Online and Talk with Native Speakers.
• DeepL Translate - World's most accurate translator.
• A History of Punctuation
• Don't Wordle - Just like Wordle but the opposite. (HN)
• Sign Language Processing (Code)
• LanguageTool-Rust - LanguageTool API in Rust.
• Why I built a dictionary app (2022) (HN)
• Wordnote Dictionary - Simple and elegant notebook to write new words and discover their meanings and synonyms. (Code)
• Linguistic Antipatterns (Code) (Lobsters)