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English Configuration

Follow along if you are an English Learner.

We may support more database in the future.

Setup ECDICT (An Modified English Tokenizer and English to Chinese, English to English offline dictionary)

  1. Download https://github.com/skywind3000/ECDICT/releases/download/1.0.28/ecdict-sqlite-28.zip
  2. Unzip it, and paw-ecdict-db pointing to the location of stardict.db.
  3. Download nltk and nltk data for tokenizing the words 
    pip install nltk
python -m nltk.downloader stopwords
python -m nltk.downloader punkt
  4. Android, you need python 3.10 to support nltk (newer versions may not work at the time of writing) 
    pkg install tur-repo # https://github.com/termux-user-repository/tur 
pkg install python3.10 # install python 3.10
pip3.10 install nltk
python3.10 -m nltk.downloader stopwords
python3.10 -m nltk.downloader punkt
ln -s /data/data/com.termux/files/home/nltk_data /data/data/org.gnu.emacs/files/nltk_data
  5. Setup paw-python-program if necessary, if the pip module is installed with different python version, for android, set it to python3.10
  6. Show/Highlight unknown words at the background
  7. Enable paw-annotation-show-unknown-words-p
    1. Tweak five different filter settings to fit your need:
      • paw-ecdict-frq: Minimal Frequency from frp, -1 means all
      • paw-ecdict-bnc: Minimal Frequency from bnc, -1 means all
      • paw-ecdict-tags: Tags for querying english words, set it part of: ‘zk gk ky cet4 cet6 ielts toefl gre empty’.
      • paw-ecdict-oxford: Whether within oxford 3000, 0 or 1, 1 means in oxford 3000
      • paw-ecdict-collins-max-level: The max collins level, 1 to 5.
    2. Set paw-ecdict-show-tags-p to t to show tags.
    3. Set paw-ecdict-show-translation-p to t to show translation (Chinese).
    4. Set paw-ecdict-show-definition-p to t to show definition (English).
    5. Add words to known words file
      • Setup paw-ecdict-known-words-files and paw-ecdict-default-known-words-file, for example, I have two files, one is csv file downloaded from somewhere, the other is a plain text maintained manually. 
          (setq paw-ecdict-known-words-files `(,(expand-file-name "eudic.csv" org-directory)
                                      ,(expand-file-name "english.txt" org-directory)))
(setq paw-ecdict-default-known-words-file (expand-file-name "english.txt" org-directory))
  8. Press Delete button, or run paw-delete-word, the word will be added into the last line of paw-ecdict-default-known-words-file in which ECDICT will be added into the filtering setting. Or you can simple open paw-ecdict-default-known-words-file and add a word on the last line.
  9. Please be noticed that paw-change-word-learning-level also has a KNOWN status, but this is only for offline/online words, even if you change it to KNOWN, the word is still in the database and server. While the known words files mentioned above are only maintained locally, no databases are needed (at this moment), giving the user more flexibility.

Text wordlists or dictionaries

  1. You can also disable paw-annotation-show-unknown-words-p, and use your personal wordlist files (csv/txt file dictionaries) instead, by setting paw-ecdict-wordlist-files.
    • csv file requirement: just make sure first column is the word. Other columns will be automatically combined and separated by new line as explanation.
    • txt file requirement: the whole line should be the word, one line one word.

You can think of paw-ecdict-wordlist-files are external text dictionaries. Paw will query the word with the first column of text dictionaries inside paw-ecdict-wordlist-files, and use other columns as explanation. If no explanation, it will use paw-ecdict-db.

You can also think of paw-ecdict-wordlist-files are editable wordlists. All words inside them will be highlighted (Blue by default) in the buffer that are enabled paw-annoatation-mode, while words added into paw-db-file will be highlighted as Orange by default.

These are builtin wordlists:

  • M-x paw-request-oxford-5000: 5000.csv (b2 and c1) saved into org-directory
  • M-x paw-request-oxford-phrase-list: phrase-list.csv saved into org-directory
  • M-x paw-request-oxford-opal: opal.csv saved into org-directory
  • M-x paw-request-mawl: mawl.csv saved into org-directory
  • M-x paw-request-cambridge-all: input the cookie (from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/plus/cambridgeWordlists after logging in), then various cambridge wordlists will be saved into org-directory