Project: FrankenTongues

One of the things that inspired me to start FrankenTongues was the lack of tools I could find to use while exercising. Most systems require both your hands and your visual attention - holding a book or tapping a screen - so they’re out. Pimsleur kinda worked, but I want something at a higher language level, and I want to be able to create my own lesson content. So after taking a week off to just enjoy Frankie’s new ebook reading feature, I’m now ready to add another one. And this one’s going to be entirely hands-free.

Earlier I mentioned that I didn’t have the on-phone search function working yet. What that meant under the hood was that it was working in the lab but that I hadn’t pushed it to my phone to actually try it yet.

One technique I often use to improve my Norwegian is to create “study blocks”. From a few sentences to a few paragraphs, each block focuses on a specific aspect of the language I want to explore. For example, I have one that demonstrates a spectrum of common adverbial intensifiers that range from slightly (litt) to extremely (ekstremt). But after comparing the text for such a block, how do I then get it into Frankie?