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Input Plus One

"The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages." - Stephen Krashen

Input Plus One is a set of tools for learning Swahili through understanding the language in its natural spoken and written form.

A screen shot of the Android app searching for the word simba

Features

Dictionary Screen

  • Search for an English word in the English-Swahili index
  • Search for a Swahili word in the Swahili-English index
  • Click the green button to switch between Englihs-Swahili and Swahili-English indices
  • Click on a word to go to the Word Detail screen

Vocabulary Screen

  • View word, translation, and derivations
  • Add word to vocabulary
  • Remove word from vocabulary

Word Detail Screen

  • Click the Vocabulary link in the header to go to the Vocabulary screen
  • View words added to vocabulary from the Word Detail screen
  • Click on a word to go to the Word Detail screen

Planned integrations

  • NHK Swahili Radio podcasts with Google Cloud Speech-to-text for transcripts
  • Swahili Wikipedia integration via browser extension
  • GPT Chat integration for language assistance

Technologies

This is the monorepo for React Native and Next.js apps.

Set up

Requirements

  • Download Expo Go on Android or iOS
  • Yarn
  • Algolia Application ID and API Key

Clone this repository

git clone [email protected]:yosevu/input-plus-one.git

Add environment variables

  • Create a .env in the project root
  • Add Algolia Application ID and API key for dictionary data

Install dependencies

yarn

Run the native app and follow the instructions in the terminal

yarn native