JLearnIt

JLearnIt is a multilingual dictionary sorted by categories that helps you learn the vocabulary of another language progressively (each word has a level of use). The languages available are French, English, Dutch, Spanish, German and Italian.

Features:

• Thematic dictionary.
• Learn vocabulary thanks to the questionnaire.
• Translator word by word.
• Search words (even incomplete with wild card '*').
• Sort the words in alphabetical order.
• Reorder the columns.
• Save your score.
• Save words in HTML.
• Show only the columns you're interested in.
• Each word has a level : often used(1)->technical word(10). You can choose to see only the words of a certain range of level or to be asked for words of that level.
• Add/Delete your vocabulary and categories.
• Cut/Copy/Paste even between your spreadsheet program and JLearnIt.
• Change the language and the skin of JLearnIt.
• Get more information about the word on the Internet.
• Save your configuration of the program.
• It won't ask you the same word if you know the word (you can change the settings about what 'know' means for you).
• It won't ask you for the word that starts with the same letters as the translation.
• Edit words and set properties.
• Choose another file than the vocabulary from the Internet or from your hard disk. (French departments, ...)
• You can also create a new file for you.
• You can get a free license if you help on the dictionary.
• Platform independent : runs on Windows, Linux, Mac Os (9 and X), OS/2, Windows CE(not tested)...
• Works with JLearnItME and JLearnItPDA, the mobile and PDA version of JLearnIt.
• Included a quickly launched translation program AWTJLearnIt.
• Possibility to start it as an Applet or with WebStart.
• Fully functional shareware even after the trial period.
• General part :
• You can change of Look&Feel
• Look at the screenshots for examples.
• Select the categories including the sub-categories or not.
• Set the language for the user interface. French, English, Dutch, German and Italian are available at the moment.
• Set the starting file for the data and for your score.
• Save your preferences in differents .ini files.
• Open other files like countries, French departments, and much more on Internet.
• View part :
• Create you own file, not necessary to learn vocabulary.
• You can edit, add or delete words and categories.
• You can edit, add or delete properties to the words (such as the level).
• Save the categories or all the tree as a TXT or a HTML file.
• Show only the languages you're inteerested in.
• Cut, Copy, Paste from this application to a text editor, a word processor or a data sheet program.
• Print the category you have selected.
• Search words (with many options).
• Translate texts (word by word translation)
• Find the definition of the word on Internet.
• Question part :
• You can choose the starting and ending level.
• Level depends on how much the word is normally used in a day. It goes from very often(1) to almost never(10). For examples, beginners can start to learn words from level 1 to 3, and if you want to improve you can learn words from level 4 to 8.
• You can open and save your score.
• You can have one score file for "French to English" and another one for "English to French".
• Other persons of your family can use the software.(If installed on one computer)
• Score are saved in order not to ask you the words you already know.
• You can also change the parameters of the last purpose.(like how many times you have to answer correctly before the program will consider it as known)
• Only score on the words are saved not your total score.
• You can show the properties about the word before the question and after the answer.
• Advanced feature:
• You can launch JLearnIt in command line mode. java jlearnit.JlearnIt -cmd
• You can add and remove some columns.
• You can sort the columns.
• You can keep the width of the colums.
• You can include or exclude the subcategories.
• You can easily type the letters with accent even if you don't have a special keyboard.
• You can run it on Linux, MacOS X, Windows and (not tested) others OS that accept Java 1.1 or higher.

What is new in this release:

• The dictionary and the translations have been improved.
• The Windows version is also available as a portable application.

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment