Personal Lexicon

A a simple tool designed to help you create your own lexicon.
Building a large vocabulary in a foreign language is not easy for most of us. Usage context, pronunciation, inflected forms, and spelling each add a level of difficulty when trying to master various words, phrases, or expressions. As students, we must employ all possible tricks to build and maintain memory associations.

When faced with learning thousands of vocabulary items and grammar rules, it's easy to forget something that was learned a few days ago let alone a few months ago. Taking notes and reviewing them is essential, but trying to find those same notes after a few weeks have passed can be time consuming. Personal Lexicon has been designed to help solve these problems by providing students an easy-to-use interface to track what they've learned and to maintain and assess their progress.

Personal Lexicon is a simple tool designed to help you create your own lexicon.

Main features of Personal Lexicon:

Create lexicons for the purpose of learning almost any language with user defined lexical types (i.e. nouns, verbs, particles, expressions, etc.) and region dialects.

Define conjugation forms or inflection rules for any lexical type.

Add lexical items (typically words) and organize them into themes that you define yourself.

With each lexical item record a variety of optional data including pronunciation, personal examples, comments, gender, conjugations, etc.

Link lexical synonyms, antonyms, roots, phonetically similar items, and other related items.

Track which personal examples have been verified as grammatically correct.

Create tests from a list of lexical items or themes.  Test types include definition tests, multiple-choice tests, synonym/antonym tests, and personal example tests, each one having its own set of customizable options.

Save and take the same test multiple times, trying to improve your score each time or generate a pop quiz which is taken once and discarded.

Automatically track each lexical item's difficulty rating so that you can focus on the ones that are giving you the most trouble.

Print a list of lexical items or any test so that you can study away from the computer.

Import and export an entire lexicon or a list of lexical items so that you can share your data with other students.

Advanced search capabilities allow you to find a particular item or a list of items quickly.

Change the interface language to English, French, Portuguese, German, or Spanish.


Requirements of Personal Lexicon:

Java 1.4 or higher


Limitations of Personal Lexicon:

Testing and printing features are limited

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