Awesome Polyglot

A curated list of (spoken) language learning resources and programming tools for people (programmers and non-programmers) learning foreign languages.

A collection of resources for language learners.

Contents

• Online Tutoring
• Apps
• Web APIs
• Software Internationalization
• Foreign Language Extraction with Python
• Python Packages
• Screen Readers
• Follow

Online Tutoring

• iTalki - Flexible individual tutoring from foreign language speakers across the world!
• Verbling - Individual tutoring, similar to iTalki.
• Rosetta Stone iOS - Group tutoring available

Apps

• Duolingo - Exercises and lessons in random order
• LingQ - Steve Kauffman's app
• Lingvist - Allows you to improve and track progress on vocabulary on complex topics

Web APIs

• Google Translate
• LingvaNex
• deepl
• happyscribe

Software Internationalization

• Python
  • gettext - Provides internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) services for your Python modules and applications
• Misc. Software
  • Poedit - Allows you to translate apps & sites with gettext

Foreign Language Extraction with Python

1. Tesseract (Configure before utilizing pytesseract)
   • Mac
     • Brew Installation
   • Windows
     • Chocolatey
     • Tesseract-OCR
2. pytesseract

Python Packages

• ocrmypdf - Allows you to easily OCR pdfs with foreign text
  • Most languages supported by Tesseract
• arabic-pronounce - Phonetises Arabic
  • Arabic
• Nour - Arabic to braille and vice-versa
  • Arabic, Braille
• PyBraille - Text to 6-dot braille (Grade 1)
  • Unified English Braille
• MLConjug3 - Conjugate verbs in French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian using Machine Learning techniques.
  • French
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
• LanguagePod101-Scraper - Scrape LanguagePod101 Podcasts
  • Most languages found on LanguagePod101
• Spacy-lefff - PoS tagging and Lemmatizaion for French text via spaCy
  • French
• deep-translator - A flexible free and unlimited python tool to translate between different languages in a simple way using multiple translators.
  • All languages supported by online translators
• name-gender-classifier - Classify the gender of a Portuguese name.
  • Brazilian Portuguese
• Reverso-API
  • This is a wrapper around Reverso's (reverso.net) API for Python.

Screen Readers

• NVDA
  • When utilized with the following add-on instantTranslate, can translate any text found on your computer. Useful if you've changed your computer language settings to a foreign language and need to translate text.

Follow

• YouTube Channels

  • Polyglots
    • Luca Lampariello
    • Steve Kauffman
  • Individual Languages
    • Easy Languages (Easy German, Easy Spanish, Easy French, etc.)
    • innerFrench
    • Mandarin Corner

• Podcasts

  • Radio Lingua Network
    • CoffeeBreak French
    • CoffeeBreak Italian
    • CoffeeBreak Chinese
    • CoffeeBreak German
    • CoffeeBreak Spanish
    • CoffeeBreak English
    • CoffeeBreak Swedish
    • CoffeeBreak Conversations

• Publications

  • Assimil

• Websites

  • jisho
  • Context Reverso
  • happyscribe
  • deepl

Who else should we be following!?

Contributing

Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines!

Contributors

Thanks goes to these contributors

License

CC0 License