Thanks for the suggestions! It’s true that the ability to organize and categorize your words is currently lacking.
For now, please note that the default sort order within the Words tab is by “recently modified”, which should help with finding your recently imported words.
Steve, thank you for the wonderful App! I practice learning English every day, either on my desktop computer or cellphone. it was synced in both devices. A couple of months ago, something changed in the app. Now my desktop and cellphone are not synced. The total words in my cellphone has 328, and my desktop still has 1350 words. Would you happen to know what caused the problem?
Now I am trying to export words from my desktop to my cellphone. After several tries, I realized that the exported CSV format is not accepted as the required format for importing CSV. Could you fix the issue for us? Thanks a lot!
@Mars sorry for the delay responding. It sounds like you’re signed in to separate Readlang accounts on each of your devices. Please email me (steve@readlang.com) with the email addresses of both accounts (which you can find by clicking your avatar at the top right of the page → Profile → Edit Your Profile) and I’ll try to help you.
Nice! I’ll be playing with this feature a bit, but I have words from Language Reactor and FinnishPod101 to import. So I had Claude slap together a conversion script for those two:
I can program, I was just too lazy in this instance If there’s interest and once the CSV format stabilizes, I could turn this into a more full-featured tool.
With languages like Finnish, the base form of the word is almost never encountered in an example sentence. So the exports from Language Reactor make for some poor examples. To get around that, the script can fetch an alternative example from Tatoeba to use instead. But often even those don’t have the base form. It’s better than nothing, though.
I went a bit crazy and now there’s a web interface and service for it that you can use if you want to convert your CSVs to Readlang’s format. With the bonus feature of finding example sentences for you if the ones you have don’t satisfy Readlang’s requirements:
It can automatically fetch examples from either Tatoeba or the Leipzig Corpora Collection, containing the word in its exact form.
Let me know if I should add more CSV formats (please send sample files, I’m not signed up for most services). You can of course also get the source code from the repo linked one post above and add your own parsers.
(Oh, and disclaimer: The service is non-commercial, has no ads, no cookies except for the session cookie, nothing personally identifiable is stored. No trackers. The logins are anonymous and based on secret phrases. I don’t expect a few language nerds to overwhelm the thing, but please keep backups of your exports just in case I ever need to shut it down.)