The Parseh guide
Parseh is a Frank-method toolbox: books to read with the translation woven in, videos to watch with a transcript that follows the voice, a studio to write your own lessons, and exercise decks to study — in eleven languages, from Persian and Arabic, right to left, to Japanese and Chinese, set vertically when you want them so.
Welcome
Parseh runs on your own computer, and you use it in a browser — on that computer, or on a phone that can reach it. It needs no account, and what you read and write in it stays in its folder. This guide explains every part of it, one section a part, with pictures and with examples that work on the page.
If you are new, begin with Getting started: it takes you from installing Parseh, on Linux, macOS or Windows, to its first page, the hub, and from there to a phone.
The guide, section by section
- Getting startedInstalling and starting Parseh, reaching it from a phone, the hub and its doors, the Browser and Mobile interfaces, the Working… indicator, where everything lives, the backups — and this guide.
- BooksThe reading editions — the library, the reader, narrations, writing a book yourself, taking it away and bringing it back.
- VideosA video with its whole transcript underneath, every phrase glossed — watching one, adding one, writing one, and taking it away.
- The studioA library of Markdown documents about a language — written, read, annotated, drilled and printed.
- The Markdown dialectEverything a studio document can hold, construct by construct, with what the studio draws from it.
- Writing exercisesAll thirteen kinds of exercise: how to write them, how they are checked, printed and put into a deck.
- Exercise decksStudio exercises kept in decks and brought back when they are due, the way Anki brings back a card.
- Cards and AnkiMaking flashcards out of a book or a video, giving them their sound, and keeping them in step with Anki.
- Lookup and languagesReading what nobody has glossed yet — dictionaries, character components, translated sentences, a translation model — and the eleven languages Parseh teaches.
- Reference and troubleshootingWhat a message means, every command for those who want one, where each file lives, and the words Parseh uses.
- Writing this guideHow these pages are written — Hugo’s Markdown and the studio’s dialect, code blocks, pictures, shortcodes — compiled and published.
- The showcaseOne of everything a page of this guide can hold, exercises included.
These pages open once the guide is compiled: the note at the top of this page says how.
Finding your way
Every page is in the list on the left — the ☰ button opens it on a phone — and the search box above it finds any word on any page; press / to jump into it. At the foot of each page, Previous and Next walk the whole guide in order; the ◐ button changes the theme, light, dark or sepia.