Typetutor

About our project

Learning how to type in a new language!

We may know how to speak, write or read in different languages.
BUT do we know how to type?

Our project is about learning how to type in a new language, and familiarising yourself with the locations of the keys/letters.

Background

I happened to notice my friends who are learning Korean struggling to type in Korean.

For users who only have one type of language on the keyboard, for example, English only (Figure 1), they do not know where Korean characters are located as it is not shown on the English keyboard (Figure 2).

Figure 1. English keyboard

Figure 2. English and Korean keyboard

For them to type in Korean, they have to use trial and error, pressing every single letter to make a word or so.

This also works for Czech, and other languages (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Czech keyboard layout

We have also noticed that on YouTube, ‘learning to type different languages’ is really popular (Figure 4 & 5). Almost 1M views for Japanese, and 100k views for Korean.

Figure 4. How to type in Japanese

Figure 5. How to type in Korean

And we know there is an app to learn languages, but not how to type! Thus, our project begins :)

Developing Ideas

Figure 6. TypeTutor Draft

This is our initial idea (Figure 6). This focuses on the purpose of our project, instead of the starting point - choosing languages to learn.

1. The user will log in and out, allowing them to keep their progress.
2. They choose from the three categories, ‘characters’, ‘words’, or ‘sentences’.
3. The keyboard at the bottom appears, which will have both languages - keyboard layout that users already know, and the keyboard layout to study - like Figure 2.
4. The user gets to choose the level of the game, which will decide on the transparency of the keyboard layout you already know.
5. As you start typing and practising, it will show the accuracy on the left top.