Term​Learn

Term​Learn is an app to learn words, for example words you have been given for homework, in a fun and interactive way. You can use it to learn a language, but also to learn concepts, definitions and abbreviations. 

Modes

You can learn in Term​Learn in two modes, Game Mode and Basic Mode. 

There are also three answer modes: Writing Questions, Multiple Choice Questions and Flashcards. With Writing Questions you have to type out the answer, with Multiple Choice you can select the answer from a configurable number of options. and in the Flashcards mode, where you have to think of the right answer in your mind and indicate yourself whether you were right or wrong.  Flashcards is only available in Basic Mode.

In Basic Mode you have no time limit and no score, this works better on slower devices. 

In Game Mode, you are a cube, and you must avoid the obstacles before you collide with them. 

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Basic Mode

MultipleChoice GameMode

If you have selected multiplechoice, there is a word on the top of the screen.

There are five lanes. Each lane represents a different option.

There is only one correct translation, you must go to the lane where the correct translation is displayed.

You can go to the left with A, to the right with D.

Once you are on the correct lane, you can accelerate using the space bar, to speed up the process.

Once you reach the word, the game checks if you have the correct answer.

If you have the correct answer, you hear a 'pling' sound, and the next word appears.

If you do not have the correct answer, the error window opens, where you can see your mistake.

You can then click the 'continue' button, or if you had the word correct, you can click the 'I had it right' option.

If the game was wrong because of a bug, please report it.

On mobile, you can swipe up to go to accelerate, swipe left to go left, and swipe right to go right.

If you have a word incorrect, it will display the correct answer, and highlight the differences.

You also have an option to say you were right, if your answer was close to the correct answer.

You can pause by clicking on the pause button. In the menu, you can see your score, and the amount of words you have learned.

The error menu

Writing Questions GameMode

In Writing Questions, there is a word on the obstacle.

You must type the correct translation of that word, before you hit the obstacle.

If you are on time, you jump over the obstacle, if not, you crash in to it.

If you crash in to the obstacle, the same error window as in MultipleChoice opens.

You can pause by clicking on the pause button. In the menu, you can see your score, and the amount of words you have learned.

If you are done typing, you can hit enter to accelerate. If you want to edit your answer, press escape to stop accelerating.

If you have set the game to automatic mode, you accelerate once you have not typed anything for a while, so when you are done.

Main Menu

In the main menu, there are seven tabs: Learn, Create, Search Sets, Settings, Account, Shop and Cards

Learn Tab

Here you can see all your word sets, their title, and their number of terms, sorted by when you last learned them. At the moment you cannot publish your set, but this is planned. If you have more than four sets, your sets will be organized by language. 

You can click on a set to see the set menu for that set. You can right click to delete the set, or long press if you are on mobile.

Create Tab

Here you can create a word set. You can enter a title, description and the words. Each term has one line, and the term and its definition are seperated by an equals sign (=). Normally, the word you must translate is the word on the left, and the translation is the word on the right. In the settings you can then edit the separator characters,  if your set if public or private, and the left and right language. You can also open the folder your sets are saved, so you can import/export/share/delete set files.  There is also a button to create a set from the set data you have copied. You can use this to copy sets from someone else, who shared it using the "Copy Set Data" button in the View Set menu. On the web version, you need to paste the data in the words input field because the game cannot read or write the clipboard's content.

You can create the set by pressing the "Create set" button.  When you press that button, you go back to the main menu and you can view your set. 

Search Sets tab

Here you get a list of the users that have made public sets, sorted by how many sets they have made. You can click on a user to view the sets made by the user. On the left is the language ISO code along with a flag of the corresponding country. Next to that is the title and the amount of terms the set has. 

This is a temporary solution. This system will stay in place so long as it is easy to find sets this way. Once the app has enough users who create sets I will change the system to a search system where you can search based on the language/subject, grade, chapter, etc.

Settings tab

Here you can change some settings:

Account tab

In the account tab you can manage all things related to your account. You can change your username, your profile picture, and reset your password. You can also delete your account or log out.

If you haven't added an email and password yet, you can add them to your account. 

Shop tab

In the shop tab you can do two things: you can buy things with your coins (currently only cards), and you can view your language levels. When you learn words, you get coins for the words you learn. The longer the word is,  the more coins you get.

For each coin you get, you also get one experience (xp) point for the language you are learning. When you get 10000 xp points, you level up to the next level. For each level you need more xp than for the last one.  

When reaching a new level, you unlock a new quartet in the cards screen.

Cards tab

In the cards tab you can view all the cards you have. 

Each language has a couple of quartets, existing of 4 unique cards related to that country, one for each level. Each quartet has a theme, like tourism, buildings, people, mythology or cuisine. The goal is to collect all cards from the quartets. 

More quartets will be added in the future, suggestions for new cards are welcome. 

The ones you have are in colour, the ones you are missing are grayed out. In the bottom left you can see how many cards you have of that type.

View Set Menu

You can view the set here. At the top is the title, number of terms, creator and description. Below that you can select which mode and answer mode you want to learn the set in. Below that is a button to learn the set. 

You can change the languages of the set by clicking the button next to the "Terms in this set" text.

Below that you can view all the terms of the set. First there is a check mark, which allows you to select the term. Then the term is in the left language, and then the language is in the right language. To the right of that is the learn value. Then there are two buttons, one to modify the term, and one to delete the term. This is fortunately not permanent, once you have adjusted the set a button appears to save it. If you don't click this, the changes are reversed. At the top right is a button for settings, which you can read more about below.

You can do four things with the words you have selected:

For example, if you want to reset your learning progress, you can select all words and set their learn value to zero. 

Settings

You can change a lot of settings for learning a set. These settings are reset every time you go open the View Set Menu again, so they are only for one learning session.

I try to make the game as configurable as possible, so more settings are coming.

General Settings

Game Mode Settings

MultipleChoice Settings

Writing Questions

Language-specific Settings

Learn Value

In Term​Learn, each word has a property called learn value. The learn value is the degree to which you know a word. The learnvalue starts at zero. If you get a word wrong the learn value goes down, if you get a word right the learn value goes up. When the word reaches a certain learn value, it is considered "learned". 


MultipleChoice Plus

MultipleChoice Plus is a mode in which the given multiplechoice options are preferably of the same part-of-speech as the word, so you cannot exclude options based on the presence or absence of articles, prefixes/suffixes, etc. Here is an example:
You are learning words from French to English. In French, you get the word "compter". You have no idea what that means, but you know that any words ending in "er" are a verb. The multiplechoiceoptions you can choose from are:

You know that "to count" is the only verb, so you choose that one, you have it correct, the word is considered learned, but you still have no idea what compter means. MultipleChoicePlus is created to prevent such a scenario. It is not perfect in this, it recognizes some simple behavior like words starting with le/la, or ends with 'ir'. The currently supported languages are:

I am planning to add other European languages, but for now, these are the only ones. You can also submit your own language patterns, so I can add them.


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