Has anyone here tried to use Obsidian to help with learning languages, not just to keep grammatical references and some words, but as a full blown language zettelkasten (if I may call it that)?
I have set aside a specialized vault that I intend to use as a sort of dictionary. Of course, words by themselves are not terribly useful, it won’t be a mere collection of words but a collection of sentences, phrases and idioms, etc… all properly explained in my own words and interlinked. I want to combine this with sentence mining.
I haven’t decided on the exact format it will take yet. I think it would be best if I just do it and figure it as I go.
One issue that really does pop out to me is handling of synonyms and homonyms. That (heavily helped by reading about how chinese/japanese logographs work, reading about Roget’s thesaurus and some philosophical conlangs) is actually what heavily prompted me into doing this.
Perhaps a file per word or a file per “meaning”? We will see.
So far I’ve only decided to make folders for each language (my native Slovak, English and Japanese (which I am starting to study) and to make a folder for kanji within the “Japanese” folder.
