Like many other English learners, I use translation software a lot. But there's one problem to using websites like Google Translate: you can't really remember what you searched. You want to know the meaning of the word, you type it in there, you get the result, and you forget about it. That's often what happens when I look up a word. So this project is trying to resolve this issue by saving the vocabularies to a place, so that I can review them regularly and remember them better.

Legendword Vocabulary, or LVocab, is a platform that aims at saving vocabularies to a list. It compensates the limited information you get in the History tab on Google Translate. You can view the definition and the translation at anytime on LVocab.

This is done possible by my user system and Tampermonkey plugin. You have to log into your Legendword Account and install the Tampermonkey script to use LVocab. If you don't have a LAccount or the plugin, it might be a pain to start using this platform. But I encourage you to try it, because it will enhance your English learning experience by a lot.

Currently, LVocab is in public beta phase. It is available on http://legendword.com/LVocab. As of now, you can save vocabularies with the plugin, and view them on LVocab. Review system, vocabulary management (selecting multiple, moving between lists), and varies settings are yet to be developed. The vocabulary-saving plugin will be supporting more translation sites such as Baidu Translate and Youdao Translate in the future. General user experience will be improved as well.

LVocab is open-source. Follow this Github link to submit issues. This platform is by far the biggest project I've done this year. Tons of effort is put in it, and lots more will be going into it. I will bring more features to LVocab, making it the ultimate online vocabulary learning solution.

And that wraps up the introduction to LVocab. It's now version 0.1 public beta. Future updates will be posted here, so stay tuned.

A side note: Homepage News has an increasing number of articles, and from now on I'll be archiving older news articles to my Blog.

Archived from Homepage on May 21, 2019.