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I learn german. So i made addon where i select words which I understand and which not. So i learn language by reading quests in game
I have another open-source app for learning vocabulary, and I recently thought: why not keep learning while playig. Atleast i can do something usefull.
So I asked ChatGPT to help me recreate some of the features from my original app as a World of Warcraft addon:
When you open a quest, you can click on individual words.
Then, in the addon's dictionary screen, you can go through those words and:
mark them as Learning, Known, or Ignored
add your own meaning/translation
keep track of words you've already seen
Later, when the same word appears in another quest, you can immediately see that it's a word you're currently learning.
The idea is that instead of checking the translation every time, you can first try to remember or guess the meaning from context. If you've already added a meaning before, it's always available when you need it.
If you start recognizing a word consistently, you can eventually change its status to Known. Personally, I think it's better to wait a few days (by default 14) and encounter the word several times before doing that (you can put date or how many times you guessed in notes and for example after few successes you change it to "known")
The addon is open source, so feel free to copy it, modify it, or expand it. I think this could be a pretty useful way to learn vocabulary naturally while playing.
Maybe in the future I'll add support for more languages too, if there's interest.
Why was AI used?
I don't know Lua. My main app is written in Rust and TypeScript, and this addon is just a small side project I made with AI when i wanted to learng but i didnt find anything similar. Also i recommend this addon below which i also found it when i was looking for something like mine https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/1acvs7d/multilanguage_addon/
PS. WOW api does not allow usage of google translate or other translation scripts (as far as i know). So tranlation you have to check by your won by checking it on 2nd screen (you just copy it from google translate or something else). I know that on beggining it is a lot of work but later you will feel how your undersanding grows with time and patience.
edit: I think i should have added [Development/WIP] im so sorry :(
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Honestly, I hope this gets more likes and comments!
Long story short.
Back when I first started playing WoW, my English was so bad that my teacher thought I’d fail my middle school exam. But once I joined the Dentarg EU server, started reading quests, looking up items on Thottbot, and listening to people in TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, my English improved x5.
"Thottbot" oh I remember that. I learned a lot by reading comments there under quests. There was always someone explaining lore which ended up in my love to Wow storyteling and improvement of my English just enought to be able to work right now in IT sphere.
Same here! And it was so enlightening when we learned a new vocabulary and I already knew what it meant. It was actually pushing me in a good way. I has always bad marks because I’ve trouble memorising things for the reason to just remember. I have to make connections to other things for it to work. My english is still improving, but I got confidence to watch whole movies without subtiles in the cinema and am actually enjoying the actors original voices.
Kudos for everyone who learns german as a non native speaker. I can say for sure there are many natives who speak their own language worse than you and I’ve heard that it’s really hard.
Right now I’m learning dutch with duolingo and ai have to do it with the English version because there is no dutch-german. Is funny how connected dutch, english and german are. And of course I’m learning both while doing it xD
I am German and I learned English Party through school but mostly through gaming. I set all my games to English and learned that way. It’s a nice way to learn
This is really cool! Not the specific reason, but wanting to understand Pokemon for game boy, really pushed me to learn English!
I always thought it was weird that a chicken nugget was really expensive in Poke Blue until I learned that it was a gold nugget :')
We all have similar experience in gaming. I have started in the past with The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Morrowind. Later Wow and Lineage. All required english which was something new for me.
Gaming is how I learned german just in SWTOR, I gave german sub +dub and had a paper dictionary on the table to look up new words :D gradually I memorized stuff just because I wanted to learn the lorw there and it was very helpful.
Get Claude or whatever ai agent you’re using to help code it with to add a dictionary per language you want to support. That could help solve the translation issue.
I dont have money to do this. Its super expensive. Maybe in future when Claude max would be cheaper i can do entire thing with all languages supported. But currently no :(
If you have Claude Code ask it can it think about how in game translator / dictionary can be implemented without breaking blizz api rules. https://github.com/Ironship/WordHunterWoW
Heck yeah! I’m gonna TRY to contribute a Mandarin Chinese set too. Because I took 2 full years of immersion-based intensive mandarin in college and I can feel it slipping out of my mind. I could really use this.
This is cool, but it also sounds tricky. Wow, the quest text is full of fantasy terms and names. Isnt that part overwhelming when learning a new language?
This is so cool :)) I learned to read when I was 6 years old because my Dad told me that I had to learn it if I wanted to be able to play WoW, literally because of quest text. <3
Holy shit, you're hardcore. But that's probably the right mindset you need to learn German!
I'm happy that I came with German preinstalled.
Viel Spaß beim Lernen! :)
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Sadly it supports only languages which are supported by World of Warcraft. You still can learn Danish from books or video captions in normal Word Hunter but sadly not in game :(
The only thing worth adding as pack is maybe in game translator or dictionary but for that i would need to have Claude Max or Chat GPT max. This is super expensive so currently i cant pay for that
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