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Contributed Learning Files

The learning files listed here are intended for use with Parley and KWordQuiz which are both part of the KDE Edutainment project. To some extent these files also work with KHangMan and Kanagram.

Creating kvtml Files

  • You can create a kvtml file using KWordQuiz. You add the back and front for each cards and then you save your data. It will be saved using the kvtml extension.
  • If you are on KDE4 already consider using Parley. Parley offers a wealth of editing possibilities.
  • Please see here for an example of a kvtml file if you want to create one with an editor.

Share Your Files

Please upload files you created to kde-files.org. They will appear on the page and also show up in the download dialogs of the applications. The files can be found here:

If you have questions or need help, ask the the KDE-Edu mailing list.

Areas:

Vocabulary / Languages

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de  latin Tarball of German to Latin vocabulary files dela.tar.bz2 alphabetical order from German words 2005-03-21
latin  de Tarball of Latin to German vocabulary files lade.tar.bz2 alphabetical order from Latin words 2005-03-21
de  gb Basic words English/German basic_vocabulary_en2de.kvtml 1332 entries in 47 lessons 2005-12-14
de  gb Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven the_raven.kvtml - -
de  gb Intended for german pupils: Vorbereitung Abitur Englisch En.AbiVorb.Vokabeln.kvtml Some remarks, verbs and adjectives -
de  es General words German/Spanish spanisch.kvtml Some conjugation -
de  es A collection of German/Spanish vocabularies tests_deutsch_spanisch.tar.bz2 2008-02-07
gb  cz Basic words English/Czech basic_english_czech.kvtml - 2002-05-26
nl  gb Basic words English/Dutch nederlands.kvtml - 2006-09-29
gb  fr Irregular verbs, English/French eng-fra_irregular_verbs.kvtml Includes conjugations 2002-10-15
gb  fr Words of daily use, English/French eng-fra_daily_words.kvtml Includes conjugations 2002-10-24
gb  jp Basic words English/Japanese japanese5-6.kvtml
japanese.kvtml
japanese10.kvtml
japanese11.kvtml
japanese12.kvtml
japanese7.kvtml
japanese8.kvtml
japanese9.kvtml
jpn_club_a.kvtml
jpn_expr_a.kvtml 		Needs japanese fonts 2002-12-05
jp Help for learning Katakana alphabet katakana.kvtml Needs japanese fonts 2002-09-04
jp Help for learning Hirigana alphabet hirigana.kvtml Needs japanese fonts 2004-02-22
gb  kr Basic English/Korean vocabulary korean_lesson1.kvtml
korean_lesson2.kvtml 		Needs Unicode font 2006-08-19
no Strong verbs used in Norwegian Nynorsk for KVocTrain sterke_verb_(nynorsk).kvtml Conjugation 2005-08-17
de  eo German - Esperanto words vortaro-eo-de.kvtml 278 words 2006-02-12
de  eo German - Esperanto words vortoj-de-eo.kvtml 163 words 2008-09-19
pl  de Polish - German adjectives pl_de_adjective1.kvtml - 2006-03-24
pl  de Polish - German verbs. - to train Präteritum and Partizip II pl_de_verb1.kvtml - 2006-03-24
pl  fr Polish - French basic vocabulary pl_fr_basic1.kvtml - 2006-03-24
us  lojban English - Lojban vocabulary en2lojban.kvtml - 2006-09-18
es  ca Spanish - Catalan vocabulary escat0.2.kvtml - 2006-11-12
de  ar Some basic words/phrases for german / arabic de-ar-1.kvtml Includes arabic without vocal signs, and arabic with. 2007-07-18
de  ar Some basic words/phrases for german / arabic level 2 de-ar-2.kvtml Includes arabic without vocal signs, and arabic with. 2007-07-18
cn A collection of chinese files will be included with kde4 chinese language pack(s) chinese-kvtml-1.0.tar.gz Includes: HSK test sets A-D all words now, and most frequent 2000 characters grouped into 500 character files. 2007-10-12
tr  de Turkish and german - words, sentence chunks (constructions) and sentences (from a grammar, mostly) tr-de.kvtml 792 entries. 2007-10-21
br_PT  de Brasilian Portugese - German 1.0 pt_BR-de Including Portugese conjugations and many example sentences. 2007-11-22
ar  nl  en Arabic-Dutch-English ar-nl-en Still growing, the first 400 words. 2007-12-12

Anatomy / Physiology

Joints

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de general information on joints (Gelenke) a_gelenke.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the knee a_knie.kvtml example uses the right knee. 2003-06-01

Bones

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de general information on bones o_allgemein.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the hip o_becken.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the chest o_brustkorb.kvtml - 2003-06-16
de the chest, theoretical aspects o_brustkorb_th.kvtml - 2003-06-16
de os humeralis (arm) o_oberarm.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de os humeralis (arm), theoretical aspects o_oberarm_th.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the shoulder o_schulter.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the spine o_wirbelsaeule.kvtml - 2003-06-14

Muscles

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de general information on muscles m_allgemein.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de types of contraction m_kontrakt.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de muscle types m_typen.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the stomach m_bauch.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the stomach, theoretical aspects m_bauch_th.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the breast m_brust.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the breast, theoretical aspects m_brust_th.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the chest m_brustkorb.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the chest, theoretical aspects m_brustkorb_th.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de erector spinae m_erectorspinae.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de erector spinae, theoretical aspects m_erectorspinae_th.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de shoulder belt m_schulterguertel.kvtml - 2003-06-14

Ligamenti

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de general information on the ligamenti lig_allg.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de ligamenti humerale (arm) lig_oberarm.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de the spine's ligamenti lig_wirbelsaeule.kvtml - 2003-06-14

Miscellaneous

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de Latin expressions mi_begriffe.kvtml eases learning if you know what the latin expressions mean 2003-06-14
de the shock mi_schock.kvtml - 2003-06-14
de Injuries and their names mi_verletzungen.kvtml - 2003-06-01
de brain injuries mi_verletzungen hirn.kvtml - 2003-06-03

Key: a: articulare (joints) ; m: musculi (muscles) ; o: os (bones) ; mi: misc. ; _th: theory

Music


Guitar

Description Filename Notes Last Update
guitar tuning standard fretboard guitar-fretboard-standard-tuning.kvtml Learn which six notes appear on a particular fret for a guitar in standard tuning. Helps to increase sight-reading speed. 2003-07-21

Music Theory

Description Filename Notes Last Update
all keys signatures key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml Learn to recognise which key a piece of music is written in by examining how many sharps or flats appear in the key signature. 2003-07-21
keys signatures: major keys key-signatures-major-keys.kvtml A subset of key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml - just the major keys. 2003-07-21
keys signatures: major keys flat key-signatures-major-keys-flats.kvtml A subset of key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml - just the major keys with flats in the key signature. 2003-07-21
keys signatures: major keys sharp key-signatures-major-keys-sharps.kvtml A subset of key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml - just the major keys with sharps in the signature. 2003-07-21
keys signatures: minor keys key-signatures-minor-keys.kvtml A subset of key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml - just the minor keys 2003-07-21
keys signatures: minor keys flat key-signatures-minor-keys-flats.kvtml A subset of key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml - just the minor keys with flats in the key signature. 2003-07-21
keys signatures: minor keys sharp key-signatures-minor-keys-sharps.kvtml A subset of key-signatures-all-keys.kvtml - just the minor keys with sharps in the key signature. 2003-07-21
keys signatures: relative major and-minor keys relative-major-and-minor-keys.kvtml Each major key shares the same notes as one particular minor key. Only the the starting note diffs. Each major key is said to have a "relative minor". In reverse, each minor key is said to have a "relative major". 2003-07-21

Note: the key-signatures-all-keys file has been broken into -major and -minor, then those halves have been separated into -sharps and -flats since it is easier to learn those smaller chunks than to try to get everything in one go

History

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
de List of the roman emperors from Augustus till the constitution of the tetrachy in 284 a.c. Kaiser.kvtml - 2007-01-18
en List of the different capitals of USA states from the beginning to now uS Historical Capitals (advanced).kvtml - 2007-03-22
en Inventors and their inventions - English inventors.kvtml - 2007-03-28

Geography

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
gb World capitals - English world_capitals.kvtml - 2002-12-05
de World capitals - German world_capitals-de.kvtml - 2007-02-03
nl World capitals - Dutch world_capitals-nl.kvtml - 2007-02-19
it World capitals - Italian capitali_del_mondo.kvtml - 2004-02-24
de European capitals in German european_capitals.kvtml - 2005-12-13
fr French departments departements.kvtml Learn the French departments - Apprenez les départements français 2003-08-12

Math

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
en Learn to name the numbers in English (easy) numbers (easy).kvtml - 2007-03-22
en Learn to name the numbers in English (hard) numbers (advanced).kvtml - 2007-03-22

Chemistry

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
en Chemical elements of the periodic table in English periodic table.kvtml - 2007-03-22
en Amino acids in English aminos.kvtml 2 lessons: Amino Acid One letter Abbreviations and General R Group 2007-04-30

Exam Preparation

Languages Description Filename Notes Last Update
us GRE preparation gretools.kvtml Published by GRETools. 2005-07-19
us SAT preparation SAT.kvtml Published by http://www.freevocabulary.com/. 2005-07-19
de SRC preparation src_exam.kvtml Exam questions for German Short Range Certificate, see http://www.bmvbw.de 2005-12-20
uses ASE (Nationaly Institute of Automotive Service Excellence) exam topics A1_Engine_Repair.kvtml
A4_Steering_and_Suspension.kvtml
A5_Brakes.kvtml
A6_Electrical_Electronic_Systems.kvtml		 Words from: http://www.ase.com/ 2007-08-17

All the files here are distributed under free licenses. If not otherwise stated this is the GNU General Public License. You are encouraged to download and use the files according to their license.
And you are even more encouraged to contribute your own files or improve the existing ones!

There is another thing you should keep in mind when using data from books or similar: copyright violation. As a rule of thumb you might say that individual word translations can be used from books but not entire sections (The data isn't copyrighted but the collection of data is). Also books out of copyright can be used for data (in the US this means mainly pre-1923 books). Have a look at project Gutenberg at Projekt Gutenberg-DE (German site), or www.gutenberg.org (English site), for more information about finding out if a book is out of copyright.

Despite the fact that all files can be loaded and used with both KWordQuiz and Parley you should keep in mind that KWordQuiz has a simpler design and might ignore some features from the files. If you work with KWordQuiz and save afterwards you might lose some properties that are available in Parley. For that reason the table above lists advanced features that are only available in Parley. Minor features like the names of lessons are not mentioned though they get lost with KWordQuiz. It is expected that this limitation will be removed in the next major version of KDE.

Removing Grades: Using Parley you should be able to remove grades from the files by using Edit -> Remove Grades.

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