OpenSprooch.lu: Fully free and open-source tools for learning Luxembourgish
Hi everyone,
A friend and I have been working on OpenSprooch.lu:
We started building it while learning Luxembourgish ourselves. Mostly, whenever we find something that is missing or a bit painful in the learning process, we try to build a small tool for it.
Everything is free and open source.
At the moment we have:
- LODVault: a browser extension for LOD.lu that lets you save words, add notes, review them later as flashcards, and export them.
- Audio-Sync: a tool for listening practice. You can add Luxembourgish audio and follow the text while listening, repeat parts, and go back to things you didn't understand.
- LOD-MCP: more technical, but it basically allows AI tools that support MCP to use LOD directly for Luxembourgish words, examples, conjugations, etc.
We are not trying to build another Luxembourgish course or replace things like LOD, LLO, teachers, or the existing learning material.
The idea is more to build tools around them that make studying a bit easier and the ecosystem more functional.
We would really like to get feedback from people actually learning the language. If you use any of the tools and something doesn't work well, you think something is missing, or you simply have an idea that would be useful, there is a contact section on the website.
Also, if you teach Luxembourgish, please reach out as well. We are especially interested in understanding what problems teachers have, or what small tools could make teaching or preparing material easier.
We would rather build things based on real problems students and teachers have than just keep adding features we think might be useful.
You can find everything here: https://opensprooch.lu/
And here you can reach us out: https://opensprooch.lu/#contact
The source code is linked there as well.