LAOS — Your mandarin learning companion

About

LAOS is your companion to learn mandarin! It not only offers an elegant pop-up translator but also a personal dictionary and various exercises (such as memory cards, list writing, fill sentences…)
All of these, bundled in a minimalist and modern-looking environment for a colourful and engaging learning experience.

 🔥NEW !!! You can now scan subtitles from your favorites VLOGS with the LAOS Image recognition tool ! (ALT+S) 

 ⚡️HIGHLIGHTS ⚡️ 
- Translate and look-up more that 110 000 mandarin words while browsing the web and reading mandarin.
- Add countless words to your personal dictionary on a single touch, and class them by categories.
- Choose up to 4 types of exercises and display modes to learn and play with your own list of words, at your own pace.
- Look for words examples and usage on Tatoeba.org.
- Access the main settings just by clicking the LAOS icon.
- A notification system allows you to learn passively while you’re doing other tasks or simply browsing the web.
- Scan and look-up words from your favorites videos.
- Convert websites to either simplified or traditional Chinese.


🛠 HOW TO USE 🛠 
- Simply point at mandarin words to pop-up the translator.
- Click on the words to display the Pinyin bubble below it.
- Press R if you wish to save it to your personal dictionary.
- Press alt + T to see examples and usage on Tatoeba.org.
- Press alt + E to open the LAOS center where your dictionary and the exercises await. (The LAOS center can also be accessed by clicking the LAOS icon via the button OPEN LAOS).
- In the LAOS center, choose between the 4 exercises modes on the left bar.
- Press alt + S to start the LAOS Image recognition tool to look-up words from your favorites videos.


 🚀 FEATURES 🚀
- A user-friendly and refined interface aiming for the essential.
- Exporting your list in CSV.
- OCR image recognition technology to scan subtitles from videos.
- Switch between simplified or traditional.
- A dedicated color scheme for tones for an easier memorisation.
- Quick settings access.
- Zhuyin (Bopomofo) support.
- In-app help bubble.
- Dark mode available.
- Optional notification system displaying a random word from your list every 10 or 20 minutes.
- Switch between 4 display modes and exercises.
- Many options are available in each modes for an efficient end customised learning.


🌿 TO COME 🌿 
- Better gamification (score system, eye-candy animations…)
- A progress panel made of stats and graphs, displaying your improvement over time.
- More advanced settings.


LAOS full of ambition: many more features are coming ! 🌟