Caukie Vietnamese English Dictionary

Download for iOS and Android, it’s free!

My Goal with Caukie is to create a Vietnamese English dictionary that is practical, realistic and diverse. A dictionary that accepts all Vietnamese words in use by anyone. Pre-existing Vietnamese dictionaries (paper or app) are very exclusive, and tend to reject real words used by real people (literally millions of people!!). This poses a huge barrier for people learning Vietnamese to communicate with their friends, neighbours and relatives. So, I guess, you could say that Caukie is a Vietnamese dictionary aimed specifically at people learning Vietnamese, people living in Vietnam or people with Vietnamese family connections.

If you have feedback, email me at feedback@caukie.com, otherwise if you think you can contribute to Caukie, email me at contribute@caukie.com

For some reason, Irish 🇮🇪

For some reason, I’ve been learning Irish. So, the app will also feature an Irish English dictionary and other useful tools for that too.

What’s done, what’s unique?

1. A unique actual dictionary, featuring hand written entries that cover language not covered by any other dictionaries, but I also include copies of Wiktionary and other Vietnamese dictionaries too.
2. A family calculator tool for figuring out what to call your relatives, or your in-laws!

What’s planned?

Following is what I have planned in general for Caukie, and a more granular todo list for my iOS and Android apps. Note that some of these might never get done, and some of these might take years.

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There’s absolutely no timeline for these.

• Web browser with popover dictionary support
• Updates to make all apps more usable with accessibility narrators
• VSL (Vietnamese Sign Language) dictionaries
• Search history
• Vast expansion of example sentences
• Flash card system
• ‘loanword’ pronunciation guesser
• ‘unused’ syllable generator (for people who want to invent new words that aren’t an existing Vietnamese word, but can be pronounced using pre-existing knowledge)
• Image support (for helping to define words where the English equivalent isn’t well known)
• Highlight when search results are coming from a ‘variant’ lookup
• Add free ebooks, and other Vietnamese readings
• Add support for some kind of notation to lookup words with diacritics on devices without vietnamese keyboards (like if you borrow someone’s phone)
• Machine learning based diacritic restoration for sentences (honestly this is mostly to help people understand the corporate SMSes that get sent without any diacritics at all, or occasionally when older folk type without diacritics)
• Finish family pronoun calculator database
• Improving sorting of search results based on commonality of use
• Record natural southern Vietnamese accented pronunciation of words
• Automatically underline “low frequency/unimportant” words in books that you can read past.
• Improve e-reader (saving, chapters, faster loading, etc.)
• Vocabulary tracker (roll it into flash card system?) for highlighting in ebook reader

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