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NoaLingua shows real sentences, not invented ones

Bilingual examples from a corpus, with audio where it exists

Each card carries real bilingual example sentences from the Tatoeba corpus, read from disk once the pack has downloaded. They are sentences people actually wrote, with a translation beside each, rather than examples generated to demonstrate the word.

Short answer Real corpus sentences with translations, on the card, offline.

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Why generated examples are worse than they look

An example written to demonstrate a word tends to demonstrate only the sense the writer had in mind, in a register nobody uses. It teaches the word in a vacuum and gives you no signal about how common that use actually is.

Corpus sentences are the opposite trade: they are uneven, occasionally odd, and real. Seeing the same word in three sentences somebody genuinely wrote tells you more about its range than one perfect sentence does.

Where they come from, and the attribution

Examples come from Tatoeba, which is CC BY licensed, and the attribution is published on the data sources page along with every other dataset the product uses.

That page also names one dataset that is deliberately not bundled: the Kelly frequency lists, whose CC BY-NC-SA licence forbids commercial redistribution. It is listed as excluded rather than quietly omitted.

More questions people ask NoaLingua

Do the examples work offline?

Yes, once the pack has downloaded. Examples, definitions, IPA and grammar tables are all read from disk after that.

Are the examples translated?

Yes — Tatoeba is a bilingual corpus, so each example comes with a translation rather than being machine-translated on the spot.

What if a word has no examples?

The section is simply absent for that word. Nothing is generated to fill the space, for the same reason the contextual meaning line is omitted when the evidence does not converge.