minicloze

A command-line language learning game using Tatoeba's great database. Accelerate your studies by putting your knowledge to the test in an addictive yet minimalist game.

Features

• Support for over 400 languages
• Lookup unfamiliar words on Wiktionary
• Support for MacOS, Linux and Windows
• Lean implementation, written in pure Rust

Targets

• Long-term
• Build a FOSS version of Clozemaster
• More gamemodes
• Short-term
• More user-friendly design
• Optional persistency between rounds
• Play between two non-English languages

Installation

cargo install minicloze or just download a release.

Usage

Just pass in the language (from www.tatoeba.org) you want to use into the prompt. If you're building locally you can pass it into cargo run.

Dependencies

www.crates.io/crates/minreq

www.crates.io/crates/serde

www.crates.io/crates/rand

www.crates.io/crates/open

www.crates.io/crates/levenshtein

Contributing

Any help is very welcome, just open a PR or an issue and I'll probably be able to reply quickly. Right now the focus is on expanding from the basic idea into a more fully-fledged and user friendly experience.

Tatoeba

All sentences are from Tatoeba (www.tatoeba.org). Tatoeba's data is released under the CC-BY 2.0 FR license.