FrankenTongues (Frankie for short) is a language learning app for more advanced students that works entirely offline and aims to help the student become self-sufficient in their studies (independent of external resources) as quickly as possible.
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It is also an experiment in multi-interface development, allowing rapid development of both front- and back-end features by offering console, TUI, and GUI interface from the same executable. Features are developed first on the command line, then fleshed out in the Tui, along with the back-end features to support them, before finally being deployed in the GUI.
I’m sitting in the car, waiting to begin another long road trip, and in keeping with recent practice, this will be another chance to test my hands-free learning tools. But in light of my current ALG experiment, there will have to be some changes to the plan.
While conducting my road tests recently, I had a bit of an epiphany: my Norsk reading skills went from zero to B2 level (advanced intermediate) in 3 months, but after spending a similar amount of time focused on training my ear, I’m still at A1. I think it’s time to change gears…
I’ve been experimenting for months on different ways to convert podcast content into a form I can use in Frankie. I’ve found several solutions, but along the way, I’ve left the resulting file tree in absolute chaos. I’ve got files in a dozen directories and an equal number of formats. There are fragments of scripts and clips and tools scattered throughout the hierarchy like bodies left to rot on a medieval battlefield, but there’s also no consistency, little documentation, and worse, still no definitive process.
Well it’s time to loot those bodies, gather the useful bits into a proper plan, and bury whatever is left.