Announcing TikiCards: Flashcards for the Web
I was inspired by peliom’s web-2.0 Japanese flashcards, so I made some Hindi flashcards this weekend. Or rather, I made an open-source framework for javascript-powered flashcards called TikiCards, and pre-populated it with vocabulary words from the awesome Door Into Hindi lessons that I’ve been working on. I’ll work on adding more words and more languages soon. The code is checked in here.
Unfortunately, Firefox on the Mac doesn’t ship with a Devanagari fonts, and it doesn’t use the OS X system font, so all the characters show up as question marks. And unlike peliom’s Japanese flashcards that work great on the iPhone, the Devanagari characters show up as square boxes on the iPhone. So if you want to use these for Hindi, use Safari on a Mac or FF on unix.
Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think.
mangtronix, 
may, and 
rajbot 2:41 am on February 24, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I added a multiple-choice mode to make it easier to study without having to type (iPhone mode).
Also, this will help with the forward translation mode (english-to-hindi or english-to-japanese).
BTW, does the iPhone have japanese text entry mode? If not, multiple-choice will help a bunch..
rajbot 2:42 am on February 24, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
may 11:07 pm on February 25, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
neat! i don’t know if the iphone supports input for asian languages yet – i don’t think it does
mangtronix 8:22 pm on February 26, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Awesome!