I'm pretty bad at making time to practise Urdu vocabulary as part of my daily routine, so I built a browser extension to help with that. This Chrome extension displays a randomly selected word when a new browser tab is opened. The user is asked to type an English translation; if correct, the user is redirected to Google. If incorrect, the tab closes and the user is appropriately ashamed.
Create a new folder somewhere convenient on your Mac/PC
Download all the files in the 'extension' folder in this repo, to that folder
Fire up Chrome and go to 'Preferences -> Extensions'
Enable 'Developer Mode' by ticking the box at the top right of the page
Hit 'Load unpacked extension'
Select the folder you created in Step 1
This should now show up in your list of extensions
Happy language practicing!
Nope! You can type your translation in upper or lower case, or both if you're feeling fancy.
If you'd rather you were redirected to your usual homepage after correctly translating a word rather than to Google, edit the URL on line 16 of 'script.js'.
This extension is driven by vocab.json.
This is a file which stores the words and meanings for all the words used by this extension.
It's structured in a very specific way (the name of this structure is JSON) using
{} curly brackets around each word-translation pair, and [] square brackets around the whole
vocabulary.
You can add, remove or modify this file to include a wider/narrower/different range of words, in a language of your choice, as long as you don't mess with the underlying structure of the JSON.
The best way to open and edit the file is using a text editor like Notebook, Text Editor, Atom or Sublime.
Just make sure that you save it under its original name and extension, vocab.json.
Maybe you'd like to use this script to learn Arabic, Russian, Urdu, Japanese, or another language that uses a different script?
That's great! Just follow the same process as above by modifying vocab.json and paste
the words (even if they're in a different script) straight into the file.