Education/Projects/JetpackForLearning/Profiles/MemWord

Motivation
The web has the biggest collection of text on any concievable subject, in every language and it is all free, yet this massive collection of text is hardly ever used to teach new languages. Foreign language courses frequently continue to use arbitrarly chosen collections of essays to teach reading skills. This leaves students interested in sports reading foreign essays on art, those interested in art reading foreign essays on politics and those interested in politics reading foreign essays on sports.

In addition, those that have the freedom to read the subjects they enjoy in books, magazines or the internet have the repetitive task of looking up words in the dictionary over and over again. Any language student knows this is as entertaining as pulling out toenails one at a time.

Concept
MemWord assists users to learn foreign languages using the vast variety of freely available material on the web. It accomplishes this goal by acting as both an electronic dictionary and a flashcard quizing tool.

The tool would have four main functions 1.) Translate unknown words the user highlights and right clicks on 2.) If desired, adds words to flashcard database with foreign word or phrase, native definition and sample sentence referenced from the original website 3.) Quiz users on flashcard sets and keep accuracy statistics 4.) As an option, would highlight words on the page the user is trying to learn

This is not meant to be a full scale language learning platform. It is simply meant to be an intelligent tool to assist intermediate/advanced students of languages by providing contexual vocabulary related to their particular area of interest.

Mock-up
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