Tatoeba.org allows anyone to search for translations from one language to another, and Tatoeba Groupie allows anyone to specify a list of languages and find groups of mutually translated sentences where every language indicated is present. Once these "groupies" are located, they can then be exported to plain text, which is compatible for import into Anki, excel, and many others.
This version of Tatoeba Groupie is written in python (version 3.3), using a snapshot of the wxPython Phoenix project for the user interface. It is not an executable; it needs to be run from a command prompt. If you are not familiar with command prompts, do a search and that will give you the basics. If your system is easily supported, the following steps will get you up and running:
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Install a version of python 3 (3.3 recommended simply due to its use during coding) from https://www.python.org/downloads/ These are executables you can run directly.
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Install pip if you don't already have it. Instructions are available here: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html You need to use a command prompt to have python run the install file. If you get complaints about python not recognized as a command, you can either switch to the directory where python.exe is located, or add python to your path
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Then use pip (from the command line) to install a wxPython Phoenix snapshot. Pip will be in the scripts folder of your python installation (or it may already be on your path). Run the following command:
pip install -U --pre -f http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/ wxPython_Phoenix
If pip doesn't work, try pip3 and/or pip3.3, or similar.
- Download a release version of Tatoeba Groupie (both the Source code and the releaseOnlyFiles.zip), extract all files into a single folder, and run the file named tgui.py from python using the command line. The command "python tgui.py" must be run from the folder containing tgui.py, or you can give a full path to the file such as "python c:\TatoebaGroupie\tgui.py".
If it works you're good. If not, keep your eyes open for other versions of Tatoeba Groupie in the future, or look for help.
Feel free to report issues. Also feel free to consider a question an issue until there's a more concrete way specified to ask for help.