Language Agent

An AI agent that teaches the users Chinese by conversing with the user to reinforce their knowledge of imported vocabulary words.

Tools:

• Read from the CC-CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary
• Create quizzes
• Adapt to correct/incorrect user responses to focus on certain vocabulary
• Prompt the user to focus on weaker words

How to Run

1. Set your OpenAI API key as an environment variable.

Mac:

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Windows:

setx OPENAI_API_KEY "your-api-key-here"

2. Run the backend.

cd backend
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
./.venv/bin/uvicorn server:app --reload

3. Run the frontend.

cd front end
npm install
npm run dev

Data Source

This project uses a Chinese dictionary dataset licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Attribution: CC-CEDICT

You can find the license here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/