targum is built in public
1,136 changes from 14 September to 13 October
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- In Theatre the picture sits centred, the line being said under it, and Next part is always a press away.
- An ignored word on Your Words can be taken back, and found again under Ignored.
- A word counts as known only once you mark it, the same in a text, on its contents page and in the Library.
- Listening has a view of its own: the picture, the line being said, and steps by line, also on a locked screen.
- Upload can record your voice again, beside choosing a file.
- Hearing a section aloud shows how far the audio has got, and plays it when it is ready.
- One search opens from every page, forgives spelling, and finds Hebrew typed in Latin letters.
- A text once opened can be read with no connection, and what you do offline is kept for when you are back.
- Every page wears one new design, from Home and the Library to Your Words and Your Progress.
- Home opens on the texts you were reading, each picking up at the sentence you left, on any device.
- Every text in the Library has a picture on its card, and an upload gets its own when it is added.
- The Tanakh map puts a check on each chapter you have read, with the Torah's year above it.
- A video in parts offers the next part at the end of each, and one press gets every part.
- A word's card can say any word aloud, even where no recording of the text covers it.
- A reader who starts as advanced is not asked about the commonest Hebrew words.
- A text that is getting ready can be opened from the bell, to follow how far it has got as it happens.
- In Claude and ChatGPT, a text targum finds shows as a card that opens it, and plays it if it has a recording.
- A text being made ready from Claude or ChatGPT shows a card that follows it until it can be read.
- The controls above a text sit in one quiet row, which steps back while you read or listen.
- A video plays beside its transcript, or large with the line being said set under it.
- The weekly portion reads in Russian, with the Russian translation as its first column.
- Each section of the weekly portion can be heard chanted or spoken, with a switch between the two.
- Rashi, in Hebrew or in English, and the Aramaic sit beside each verse of the week's portion.
- The Library leads with this Shabbat's portion, and each portion ends on a link to the next one.
- A map of the Tanakh shades every chapter by how much of it you would understand.
- A new page shows the hard parts of Hebrew, each one solved on a real text.
- The Library has a Life in Israel subject, for texts about settling in the country.
- Paste a link on the front page and targum says what it would make of it.
- A Hebrew verb's card fills forms missing from its table, worked out from its root and pattern.
- The week's Torah portion prints as a sheet, with the Aramaic beside each verse and the haftarah after it.
- On a phone, the recording controls in the menu no longer break one word to a line.
- A known word's card says known once, not twice.
- The about page shows what was built, day by day.
- A French word's card names a pronoun's role, and tells the imperfect from the simple past.
- A word of the Torah names its chanting accent on its card while the marks are shown.
- A first visit opens a text you can follow.
- The site's own words were checked against what the app does, and corrected.
- The privacy notice names who receives what.
- Every weekly issue has a Russian edition.
- A text can be printed as a reader's edition.
- Where targum worked out a reading the text left unmarked, the page says so.
- Your texts are sorted into tabs, and a series folds into one row.
- Your texts are yours, and the Library is everyone's.
- Finishing a text shows three figures.
- Playlists: gather texts, swipe to the next, take a whole set in one press.
- Ask to practise a language in conversation, and that is how you choose it.
- The Library says what each text is at a glance.
- targum works inside Claude and ChatGPT.
- What a text takes is counted in credits, never in money.
- A reader can say a meaning is wrong and propose a better one.
- Rashi reads beside the Torah, comment by comment.
- Every public page has an address in each language.
- When targum has to refuse something, it says why in your language.
- Corrections in conversation were measured for Russian readers, and match the English.
- Buttons say read, listen or watch, to match what they open.
- Record a voice note and read it back as a text.
- A verb's card lists the other verbs built on the same root.
- There is one look, and it is light.
- Arriving takes two questions.
- Paste a link to a short video and read along with it.
- What to work on: the words and phrases that are nearly yours.
- The weekly issue publishes itself.
- A verb's card shows its full conjugation.
- The Library is browsed by subject, level and kind.
- A new reader is asked what they like to read about.
- A front page for people who have never heard of targum.
- Sign in with Google.
- Every text in the Library says how much of it you already know.
- The whole interface speaks Russian.
- Hear a line first, and see its words when it ends.
- A French word's card names its tense, its mood and its gender.
- A Russian word's card names its case, and marks stress only where two sources agree.
- Each language keeps its own library, filters and word count.
- Every screen was checked with Hebrew on it, and what broke was fixed.
- French, Russian and Italian can be read and heard.
- Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah, reads beside the Hebrew.
- A video can be picked up, moved and resized.
- A new look for everything around the text, from a small phone to a television.
- Follow a series, and its newest instalment is waiting for you.
- Ask about the text you are reading, and be answered in Hebrew at your level.
- A reply in conversation is three Hebrew sentences at most.
- The questions most readers ask are buttons.
- Tick off the words you already know, so the count starts true.
- Disagree with a suggestion, and targum offers another.
- Prayer books have a place of their own in the Library.
- The text offered next says why it was chosen.
- Every measured score has a floor, and a change that falls below it is refused.
- A photo or a screenshot of a text becomes a text you can read.
- The weekly Torah portion comes with its reading from the Prophets.
- At the end of a section, see which words cost you the most.
- Talk to targum: a conversation in Hebrew, pitched at the words you know.
- Hold to talk, and hear the answer read aloud.
- A conversation can be saved and read back as a text.
- The Aramaic chapters of Daniel and Ezra can be read like the Hebrew.
- A word in scripture gets its meaning from a dictionary, not from a guess.
- Two ways to watch a video: beside the text, or over it.
- A text is finished at the end of a chapter, not only at the end of a book.
- Your word list exports as flashcards.
- A text with sound or film opens on the sound or the film.
- Verb roots are checked against Hebrew tagged by hand, not against another guess.
- Words in the Hebrew Bible are looked up, not predicted.
- The page remembers where you stopped.
- A verse has an address of its own.
- Bring your own audio or video and read along with it.
- The weekly Torah portion has a page of its own, with its chant.
- The Mishnah is in the Library, whole.
- On a phone, a swipe turns the page.
- The voice can be slowed down or sped up.
- Every title in the Library has its English.
- The Hebrew Bible can be heard, verse by verse, while you read.
- The first weekly issue: the week's news, written at three levels of Hebrew.
- A finished text offers the next one.
- A design review found twenty-seven faults, and all of them are fixed.
- The reader turns pages instead of scrolling.
- A first visit starts with a text ready to read.
- The page keeps your sentence in place when the layout changes.
- A word's card opens with its meaning already there.
- Say which languages you learn, and which you read in.
- The Library is fuller, and every text has a cover.
- targum's code is open for anyone to read.
- Mark the words you know, and see how much of any text you can already read.
- A word's card opens beside the word.
- Hebrew has a typeface of its own.
- Books open chapter by chapter.
- Sixteen classical books, paired verse by verse with their English.
- The design rules are tested, so the look cannot drift.
- Tap a Hebrew verb to see its root and its pattern.
- Texts can be read with their vowel points.
- Each reader has an account and a word list of their own.
- The first version of targum: a text in Hebrew with its English beside every line.
The work is on GitHub.