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Expand Up @@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ In addition, the spirit of Lute is full open-source software:

## Lute alternatives

There are other projects out that are very similar to Lute (or, perhaps more rightly, that Lute is similar to):
There are other projects out that Lute took inspiration from:

* [LingQ](https://www.lingq.com/) - a commercial product
* [LWT](https://github.com/HugoFara/lwt)
* [Readlang](https://readlang.com/)

> Lute started in late 2023 as a rewrite in PHP of [LWT (Learning With Texts)](https://github.com/HugoFara/lwt), a project with the same idea. In my opinion, LWT was a great project with an extremely important idea, but its implementation made it hard to install and hard to fix problems.
> Lute v1 and v2 started in late 2022 as a rewrite of [LWT (Learning With Texts)](https://github.com/HugoFara/lwt), overhauling the architecture, data structure, and algorithms, and adding critical features. Lute v3 (this project) is a full Python rewrite to address installation and maintenance/sustainability issues. Lute would never exist without LWT and Hugo's LWT fork, so **a big thanks to those projects.**
## Should I use Lute, LWT, Hugo's fork, or something else?

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| Flashcards/testing | Lute is designed for reading only, there is no testing. |
| Automated or bulk translation | Lute isn't designed to automatically create bidirectional readers, or to auto-create translations. You can use Lute's [Term import](https://github.com/jzohrab/lute/wiki/Bulk-Term-Import) feature, along with something like Google Sheets, to imitate that. |

There are other smaller features that Lute doesn't have yet, but the above are the biggest ones that may be dealbreakers for you.
There are other smaller features that Lute doesn't have yet, but the above are the biggest ones that may be dealbreakers for you at the moment.
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* Defining "parent terms". For example, for Spanish, _hablar_ (to speak) is the root form of _habló_ (he spoke). In Lute, you can set a root form as the Parent Term, and the definition for that root form is available for all child terms. Also, when you ask Lute for sample sentences using a term, it includes sentences for all related terms as well.
* Adding word images. This helps learning, and is more interesting and entertaining than adding reams of text.

A _very_ short gif demo:

![Lute v3 demo](https://github.com/jzohrab/lute-manual/assets/1637133/7e7f5f66-20bb-4e94-a11c-7b7ffc43255a)

Lute has many other features, see the sidebar and browse around.

Lute is a work in progress, as is all software, but it works. I've been using it to learn Spanish, and it's super.

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