Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Steps to generate a word list from a text, Learn a foreign language to study a particular book

1. Copy and paste the text in a word documents
2. Convert to capital type
3. Remove all hyphens (and numbers using wild cards, sort alphabetically and remove all initial useless words)
4. Replace all tabs (^t) by a space
5. Remove all special characters (. , ; : ? and anything else _ !)
6. Use this special procedure in replace all (Make sure you have enabled wild cards using the more option in replace) , type in find (*^13)(\1)@ and \1 in replace with.
7. Copy the generated list in google translate
8. Copy the generated list in one column in excel and the translated list in the another column
9. This list can also be used to create flash cards for abbyy lingvo (modify one of the existing lists to use your words, export one existing list)
10. Develop vocab using abbyy lingvo