@EricDemers You got it!

@EricDemers Do you have an email you would prefer me to use or should I just PM you here?

You are very welcome! Glad you were able to fix it. It can so help to have fresh eyes on stuff. I know I "delete" things and get blind if I have been looking at stuff for a long time.

Now that I have all the words into my spread sheet and alphabetized, I am going through letter by letter and finding duplicates, discrepancies, and spelling issues.

Out of curiosity, I have noticed, as I am going through the words, that there are two entries or more entries from different lists, but they will have reversed means. ex:

apoteko~drugstore, pharmacy
apoteko~pharmacy, drugstore.

Are these two separate entries in your data base? If they are then it could cause confusion on what answer, especially with brick smash, is expected. and cause the word to come up more then once in games, messing with the algorithm of word exposure.

Another phenomenon I have seen is: there sometimes are two entries on compound words, on one the -o is omitted in the first part and on the other you will have it in. I know this is an expected convention. I think having it one way or the other for any given word would be wise. I also think it is valuable to see different compounds using the other convention, that way people get greater exposure, but I think having both for the same entry will lead to the same sort of issue as the duel but reversed definitions. ex:

bazopilko~baseball
bazpilko~baseball

All of this, and other insights will be be in my finalized reviews, which I will submit grouped by letter. Or I can just email you my spread sheets. Then you can decide what is relevant and what is not. Not sure if you would prefer to take this sort of "under the hood stuff" offline so to speak or keep it public in the forum.

I have also noticed that the "progress bars" will show 50% done in a group even if you have touched any word in the word set. Not really sure what the expected behavior of the progress bars is supposed to be.

I appreciate you being so patient with me as I am running a fine tooth comb over stuff.

@EricDemers Hey so I am getting the lists into a spread sheet so I only do the work once. I am a little confused. In the word lists, it has a number of words at the top, but it does not actually correspond with the number of words on that page. Am I missing something?

Oh sweet. I don't think I have been playing the games long enough to notice. I have been mostly looking at the list themselves to run through them. I have the feeling it will take me a little while to really get a feeling for the pacing.

I understand about the database lists. It is a lot of work to compose and this is obviously your baby.

I am such a hard copy person. I need analog references. I love digital for on the fly but I tend to not soak in the info very well, when it comes to reading. Hence why I am collecting books right now. I have been using Well's dictionary for most of my vocab research. Now that I have the Plena, it is game on. To be honest, I have a slight love affair with mono lingual dictionaries. I own a French one and a Spanish one. I think the best way to truly understand the nuance of a language is to understand how they define their own words in their own language.

That is a very sweet offer, thank you. I think that I would very much like to text chat, but I warn you it is ugly. I'm really not ready for voice yet. I have a lot of social anxiety and it makes me nervous. Not a great combo for someone who wants to speak with people. But I think I am going to do some recording of me reading a few things. Just to get my brain and mouth working together better. I am also highly considering getting on iTalki and seeing if there are any Esperanto tutors. Unfortunately I think I am starting to hit a wall with out some outside input.

Hmmm, very true points. The one thing I really like about the Anki thing is the fact that you get the spaced repetition piece. I think, if you can manage to get something like that integrated into your own app it would be a huge win. And the most desirable. Having a stand alone complete Esperanto course with that complete of vocab would be amazing. (mind you, I have no actual idea how the programing side of this would work, or the labor involved) If not, I think you can input decks by spread sheet into Anki and draw them back out. I wonder, even if a bit convoluted, there could be a down load progress button that would down load a current progress spread sheet. Put it in your Anki profile, work mobile, and upload it back in later. I wonder if there would be a market for some sort of system that did that automatically...

Well, even if I am not adding things into Anki having a hard copy of the vocab would expedite my read through. So if you are willing to give it to me that would be great, but if not, I understand. I can work list by list. May pull it into my own spreed sheet, so I can make sure I am not looking up words twice.

Oh I also should have asked, what dictionary(s) you have been using?

I just got my Plena Vortaro and Plena Gramatiko in the mail. I think they will expedite my understanding. I really need to brave up and start typing and speaking, or the last 6 months have been a waste. I understand a fair amount audibly and have some fairly uninteresting conversations with myself. I just can't express myself with any grace at all at this point.

And as always, my pleasure. I like feeling like I am part of something. I spend a lot of time volunteering for various things. It makes me feel better about the fact I can't do bodywork anymore.

Hey! Sorry I have been up to my eye balls in family stuff. I have been working on making my personal study materials more functional. Part of what this has meant for me is going through, consolidating and coreecting/fleshing out the Anki decks I downloaded to be more functional.

While doing this, this morning, I had the idea that maybe you might be interested in getting Langful decks built. They would become part of the Anki shared decks database. It would give you some exposure but also extend the value proposition of Langful into a mobile format on the go.

You already have everything in nice themed stacks. There are ways of having one big deck separated into each of those categories, while still being worked as a whole or in small chunks. You could have a Langful En-Eo deck and a Langful Fr-Eo deck. And as I have been working to learn how to use Anki more effectively, this would be something I would be happy to work on. Especially since I am trying to work through all the word lists anyway. It would stream line into a nice parallel process. I would of course keep a change log for things I think need clarifications for your approval.

How many words are in your database by the way? I would need a spread sheet (if you have one) or some sort of master list to really make this happen easily.

So what do you think?

Sweet! Congratulations!

@EricDemers Thank you! Yes, that is the group I have been considering.

Good luck with the translation. How fluent are you? I imagine more then I am, even though I studied for many years, you have more potencial access to speakers. I got interested in it because my great grand parents were from Montreal. My family name is Lemay. I believe we were also Beauliers. They had dairy farms and maple farms for many generations. I know I have a lot of long lost cousins up there. My great grandfather's parents died when they were young. 12 sons between the ages of 2 and 18. They were scattered through out Canada.

@EricDemers Do you know where they meet up? I haven't yet had the time to contact the Boulder group. The Denver schedule is publicly available, and I kind of really don't like Boulder. The traffic bites and a lot of the boulderites are really stuck up. I tend to find myself very unhappy every time I find myself there.