plattthompson / idiom

A language learning app that shows you word use frequency

Idiom

A language-learning app that shows you the frequency of commonly used words.

Getting started

Just type in a sentence or phrase into the search bar. Idiom will tell you what percentile the words in your sentence fall into. You can use this information to prioritize learning certain words and streamline your acquisition of a new language.

Built with:

• React
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Knex
• PostgreSQL
• Javascript (ES6)
• HTML
• CSS

Author

Platt Thompson

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brigham Young University’s Corpus of Contemporary American English for providing the word frequency data.