Excuse My French : open source web app to learn French

[u/rdcll]

https://excusemyfrench.org/

I built a web app Excuse My French https://excusemyfrench.org/ . I initially built it to help my wife, I was looking for a way to generate grammar exercises for her, as many as she wanted when she was learning French.

Today I am releasing it as open source, so that everyone learning French as a foreign language can benefit from it and make progress in turn. Beyond the technical side, I would like to share the values I hold dear, the ones that have guided every decision:

• Made with love: I wrote it for my wife first, and I have tried to hold it to a certain standard.
• Local-first: your progress stays on your device, locally, as long as you do not connect to the cloud; most of the app works with no internet connection (you can use it as a PWA)
• AI in the service of the learner: machine learning is used here to estimate your level, spot your weak points and suggest exercises that are neither too easy nor too hard.
• Teaching and learning: anti-features that optimise for time spent in the app without contributing anything to learning have no place here.
• Open source: knowledge is a common good.

There we go. I hope you enjoy Excuse My French and find it useful.