Today I'm starting my new open source service. It is called "Vocabulary Extender". The main purpose of it is to help people to learn foreign languages. As you probably know one of the most important aspects of mastering the new language is to extend your vocabulary. The more words you remember - the better. It will help you on all levels - from elementary to advance.
But we often don't want to spend our time sitting with a dictionary remembering a bunch of words. More than that such approach is usually inefficient because of simple fact: when you don't use the word you forget it. So I've decided that the process of learning should be continuous. It means that one should be able to repeat the words during his/her working day without loss of productivity.
One possible way of achieving this is to use small desktop application that popups one time in a couple of minutes and prompts you to translate one random word. It offers you few possible answers so you need only to choose one. That's it, only one click per 10 minutes (or pick any interval that suits you).
The other important thing in learning is socializing. I think it is much more fun when you have an opportunity to share what you have learnt with others. When you create something your friends should be noticed that they can use it. With "Vocabulary Extenter" it is also possible. You can use your friend's vocabularies or create your own ones.
But enough words. Just see it in action on this video (only on Russian for now):
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