yosevu / input-plus-one

Tools for understanding (and learning) natural spoken and written Swahili.

Input Plus One

"The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages." - Stephen Krashen

Input Plus One is a set of tools for learning Swahili through understanding the language in its natural spoken and written form.

Features

Dictionary Screen

• Search for an English word in the English-Swahili index
• Search for a Swahili word in the Swahili-English index
• Click the green button to switch between Englihs-Swahili and Swahili-English indices
• Click on a word to go to the Word Detail screen

Vocabulary Screen

• View word, translation, and derivations
• Add word to vocabulary
• Remove word from vocabulary

Word Detail Screen

• Click the Vocabulary link in the header to go to the Vocabulary screen
• View words added to vocabulary from the Word Detail screen
• Click on a word to go to the Word Detail screen

Planned integrations

• NHK Swahili Radio podcasts with Google Cloud Speech-to-text for transcripts
• Swahili Wikipedia integration via browser extension
• GPT Chat integration for language assistance

Technologies

This is the monorepo for React Native and Next.js apps.

• Solito
• TUKI Dictionary
• Algolia search

Set up

Requirements

• Download Expo Go on Android or iOS
• Yarn
• Algolia Application ID and API Key

Clone this repository

git clone [e-mail]:yosevu/input-plus-one.git

Add environment variables

• Create a .env in the project root
• Add Algolia Application ID and API key for dictionary data

Install dependencies

yarn

Run the native app and follow the instructions in the terminal

yarn native