Wiki Language School

This would be someway between Wikiversity and Wiktionary.

The goal is to assist language learning, translation and communication.

See User:Ilya/Wikiversity_Example:Japanese!an example with japanese.

Difference with wiktionary : instead of clearly defining terms, it is sufficient to explain them in the learner's language.

Let's take french for english-speakers as an example :

"bateau" : noun (m) : boat. adjective (slang) : simple, easy.

notice that you don't need a definition like "a vehicle for moving on water" or whatnot. If the translation's straightforward just put it. If not, add more information :

"ville" : noun (f) : a city or a town - the distinction is not made in French.

This is probably better than something like a) city and b) town - the goal here is to teach, not to define formally !

But this is not only about a bilingual dictionary (or this page would be on Wiktionary) - it should also include grammar, idioms, notes on language use, sample phrases ...

Wikibooks already has some coursebooks in different languages. However, these are not attached to wikitionaries.

Related projects :

• Wiktionary
• Wikibooks
• Wikiversity
• Associative Wiktionary (see Proposals_for_new_projects)
• WikiTrans