Description
Currently, Readlang allows a user to highlight all of their saved words or their vocab that has Ready To Learn status.
I really love this feature and have it turned on all of the time. Still, for some of the words that I highlight, especially for synonyms, it would be nice to know how common they are. If, say, a word didn’t show up in the top 10,000 most-common words in a language, I might consider not saving it to a flashcard because I would be unlikely to encounter it again. The opposite case might be useful, too, where I see a word in the top 1000 most-frequent words in my target language that I don’t have a flashcard for, which would make it easy to save.
Several languages have frequency dictionaries published online (see this example for Spanish on Wikipedia). Still, I am not sure how difficult it would be to read in frequency dictionaries into different languages in an automated way. This could be quite challenging from a technical perspective and I imagine that many languages don’t have published frequency dictionaries or one in a downloadable format. What’s more, it wouldn’t be great to highlight really high-frequency words (for English, think a, the, of, in, etc.).
I imagine that this could be at least partially solved if a user decided to use the CSV upload feature in their target language, but they would have to do it for every language they were learning. I am not sure if that feature allows you to have a blank context, either, but that would be great!
Potential feature requests
- Would it be possible to include a way to toggle / highlight the top X most frequent words in your target language while reading a text?
- When creating a flashcard, could the word frequency or “rank” be shown next to the definition?
- Could a frequency dictionary be used to weight your flashcards during review practice?
