LinguaCafe

LinguaCafe is a free self-hosted software that helps language learners acquire vocabulary by reading. It provides a set of tools to read, look up unknown words and review them later as effortlessly as possible.

You can read about all the features of LinguaCafe on the overview GitHub Page, and on the user manual GitHub Wiki page.

   

Language support

Supported languages: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.

You can find a detailed list about what level of support different languages have on the GitHub Wiki page.

Supported platforms:

• x64, which includes most desktop computers made in the last decade.
• Mac users with Apple silicon must perform an additional step, see the 'Installation' section for details

Other Armv8 devices such as Raspberry Pis 3 and newer do not work at the moment.

Memory usage

LinguaCafe uses RAM based on how many and which languages do you use. If you use every language, the RAM usage can be over 2GB.

Installation

You can find the installation guide on the GitHub Wiki page.

Updating to the latest version

You can find the updating guide on the GitHub Wiki page.

Active development disclaimer

[!NOTE] LinguaCafe is still in active development, you might encounter some bugs while using the software. Please test it before you start actively using it, and make sure it is up to your expectations. At this time only one user/server is supported.

Contact information

Discord invite

Discord user: linguacafe_47757

Subreddit: /r/linguacafe

E-mail: simjanos.dev@gmail.com

Attributions

LinguaCafe uses many public resources. I am very thankful for these projects and for all the people who were working on them. They helped me greatly to create LinguaCafe.

Spacy tokenizer

License: MIT license

Spacy website

Spacy github

Spacy license

Pykakasi

License: License: GNU General Public License 3

Pykakasi website

Pykakasi license

Pinyin

License: MIT license

Pinyin website

Pinyin github

Pinyin license

Newspaper3k

License: MIT, Apache-2.0

Newspaper3k github

Newspaper3k license

EbookLib

License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

EbookLib github

EbookLib license

JMDict dictionary file

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

JMDict Project website

JMDict license information

JMDict license

KANJIDIC2 kanji file

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

JMDict Project website

KANJIDIC2 license information

KANJIDIC2 license  

CC-CEDICT dictionary file
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

CC-CEDICT website CC-CEDICT license  

HanDeDict dictionary file
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Germany License

HanDeDict website HanDeDict license  

Kengdic dictionary file
License: GNU Library General Public License, version 2.0

Kengdic github Kengdic license  

Eurfa dictionary file
License: The GNU General Public License 3

Eurfa download website Eurfa bitbucket Eurfa creator's website Eurfa license  

Wiktionary

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Wiktionary website

Wiktionary license

The specific wiktionary files that LinguaCafe uses have been downloaded from this GitHub repository.

Dict.cc

LinguaCafe has no dict.cc dictionaries packaged in the software. It only provides a link to the dict.cc website.

Dict.cc license

RADKFILE/KRADFILE

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

JMDict Project website

KRADKFILE license information

KRADKFILE license

DMAK kanji drawing library

License: MIT license

DMAK github project

DMAK license

KanjiVG License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

KanjiVG website

KanjiVG github

KanjiVG license