Language 80/20

Description

Language 80/20 makes learning a foreign languages more efficient by applying the 80/20 rule. Since 80% of a person's daily conversation is derived from roughly 20% of his or her vocabulary, focusing on the most frequently used words is a helpful approach to learning a foreign language.

Features

• Frequency lists of foreign language vocabulary for 12 languages.
• Ajax (for faster page loads) and Pjax (to maintain permalinking and bookmarking).
• Google translations for each word appear in real-time on mouseover.
• JavaScript game to test foreign language knowledge.

Usage

Visit and explore Language 80/20!

Development/Contribution

Feel free to submit issues and pull requests! We only ask that you ensure tests are still passing.

Authors

Language 80/20 was built by Chris Kohlbrenner, Jisu Kim, and Ariel Caplan as students at the Flatiron School in New York.

License

MIT License. Copyright 2014 Chris Kohlbrenner, Jisu Kim, and Ariel Caplan.

Built With

• coffeescript
• css
• javascript
• postgresql
• ruby
• ruby-on-rails
• web