As I continue to use Frankie in more ways and with different types of content, I’m beginning to see some friction points. Some are just a function of the limited graphics of the TUI interface I’m using, but some are about the actual information layout itself. Before I start tinkering with it, I want to talk my way through it. And that means: It’s rubber duckie time again!

FrankenTongues began with some very specific features in mind - features that I couldn’t find in other tools - and it’s taken a while to get here, but today was the day I finally got to play with two of the biggest.

One language learning tool that really worked for me (for a while) was LingQ. I especially like the ability to studying language materials one sentence at a time. But as I’ve gotten more fluent, I’ve come to find the implementation increasingly frustrating.