Sakinyje

Sakinyje is a tool for language learning based on the idea of sentence mining.

Features:

• automatically detecting grammatical details such as the root word and morphology using SpaCy (works automatically for any languages with pre-trained models, and you can train custom models with data)
• colors the words based on how well you know them (automatically detected from Anki or selected by user)
• export word and definition with custom context to Anki
• automatically get definition from user supplied dictionaries (stardict, URL, file)
• extremely customizable

Full demo video

sakinyjedemo.mp4

Status:

work in progress, expect things to break frequently

Future plans:

• check the issues tab

Installation

Use prebuilt binary

You can find prebuilt binaries of the latest release (https://github.com/BrewingWeasel/sakinyje/releases) Note that currently the AppImage does not work, and the others are not tested

Build from source

Dependencies (debian based): libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev glibc-source libc6 python3-dev

Runtime Dependencies SpaCy python

Using Just (currently broken)

git clone https://github.com/BrewingWeasel/sakinyje && cd sakinyje
just build

You can also manually build using cargo-tauri with trunk and spacy.

In either case, your final build will be in target/release/sakinyje, and the bundles will be in target/release/bundles

Usage (WIP):

First time setup:

Add a spacy model (either download one from https://spacy.io/models or train one) Add a dictionary. Here are some suggestions:

• If you're learning Lithuanian I have a good server based one that uses dabartinės kalbos žodynas prebuilt: https://github.com/BrewingWeasel/lithdict/blob/main/uuids
• https://freedict.org/downloads/ has some decent dictionaries for a fair amount of languages
• https://github.com/Vuizur/Wiktionary-Dictionaries has a ton of dictionaries based on old wiktionary data. Be sure to download the stardict version though.

Normal usage:

Copy or write a sentence into the input tab, then press submit. Click on any word to get its definition. Click on the export button to export to Anki

Name

The name comes from the locative form of the Lithuanian word for sentence (sakinys). Translates (roughly) to "in a sentence"