Inglua

It took me a long time, but Inglua has reached another important milestone: The vocabulary of Italian words is now complete!

There is still some ambiguity, so some 100 words need examples, and the grammar is still less advanced than the grammars of the other languages. When that is done, I’ll make Italian available as an option in the menu. Nevertheless, this is a huge step!

Arrivederci, amici! A presto!

Yesterday I’ve been working on some nice graphs. The old ones were fairly confusing and contained not enough information. I think this is a big improvement, especially the one on the “report” page. The one on the “goals” page really needs multiple axis, but the free version of the flash plug-in I’m using (FusionCharts, highly recommended) doesn’t support them, and I’m unwilling to spend money until I’ve got more users.

Even so, nice looking charts help a lot to visualize your progress toward fluency in a foreign language. And they’re surprisingly easy to create. I may add some some graphs. Since I store every single exercise everyone does, I could for example show the timeline of how you learned a single word. That might be instructive!

The last couple of days I’ve been working really hard on improving the quality of the generated sentences. Adjectives especially have gotten a lot of love. I’ve started tagging them, which prevents generating stuff like “hollow mothers” or “hungry shirts”.

What this means is that sensible phrases pop up ever more often. While generating twenty random sentences, the best was “Are all rulers as vain as our son-in-law?”, while the worst was “No rims are as empty as the same legs.”

So there’s a long way to go, and Inglua will never get close to perfection, but I’ve made some noticeable progress.