Character Drawing Exercises

[ghost]

This is very much a long-term idea, but I think it is worth having noted.

As it stands, LibreLingo only has courses that use a Latin writing system. Latin is pretty simple as far as writing systems go. In the future, however, someone might want to create a course that uses something like Han letters where you have thousands of different characters that have strict rules for proper writing.

I think it would be good to one day have an exercise that has you draw characters in a box and scores you based off of things like proper stroke order. This could be done with your mouse or a touchpad.

[kantord]

I think the best course of action here is to solve this outside of LibreLingo, and integrate it as a module in LibreLingo courses.

Maybe there's already some open source app that implements this? If not, then I think it's worth starting such a project separately from LibreLingo.

[ghost]

There is a FLOSS Japanese learning app that does this called Kakugo. I wonder if that functionality can be ported over and if it could be made to teach other writing systems.

[chickendude]

I've just come across this while searching Github (released under MIT):
https://github.com/chanind/hanzi-writer

Their site has a demo page which shows the animations as well as a stroke writing/recognition section:
https://hanziwriter.org/demo.html

It definitely won't be perfect (stroke recognition) but it's very usable and would be great for courses for Mandarin/Cantonese/other regional Chinese languages.

And looking up the app @ledgelight mentioned, it's a Kotlin app for Android (released under GPLv3+):
https://github.com/blastrock/kakugo

I haven't tested the app out but it looks like they're not using an character/stroke drawing libraries:
Custom view to handle drawing:
https://github.com/blastrock/kakugo/blob/master/app/src/main/java/org/kaqui/testactivities/DrawView.kt
Fragment which hosts the DrawView and analyzes strokes:
https://github.com/blastrock/kakugo/blob/master/app/src/main/java/org/kaqui/testactivities/DrawingTestFragment.kt

Perhaps it could be a basis for a companion mobile app at some point.

Edit: Also came across Inkstone (GPLv3):
https://github.com/skishore/inkstone

[kantord]

@chickendude thanks! hanzi-writer seems super cool! The mobile app might also be relevant.

@allcontributors please add @chickendude for ideas

[allcontributors]

@kantord

I've put up a pull request to add @chickendude! 🎉

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