---
name: "openteacher"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "openteacher"
version: "3.2-2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/openteacher"
---

# openteacher(1)

Learn words in a foreign language

## NAME

openteacher - Learn words in a foreign language

## SYNOPSIS

**openteacher -p** \[profile\]\

## DESCRIPTION

OpenTeacher helps you to learn a foreign language.  Just enter some words in your native or foreign language, and OpenTeacher tests you.

OpenTeacher has the following features:

\* Read and write T2K and wrts files

\* Easy-to-use interface

\* Support for synonyms

\* Greek input

\* txt-output to print or send

\* Available in English and Dutch

## USER PROFILES

- **all**

  Enable every OpenTeacher GUI feature.

- **selfstudy**

  Everything you need for using OpenTeacher for self-study.

- **student@home**

  Features for students using OpenTeacher at home.

- **student@school**

  Features for students using OpenTeacher at school.

- **wordsonly**

  Just gimme my good old OpenTeacher 2.x!

## DEVELOPER PROFILES

- **codedocumentation**

  Code documentation web server.

- **get-translation-authors**

  Gathers a list of all translators of OpenTeacher in Python code format.

- **help**

  Shows an overview of all documented available profiles.

- **ircbot**

  Starts the IRC bot used in the #openteacher channel at irc.freenode.net.

- **module-graph**

  Builds a graph of all modules and how they are related.

- **package-debian**

  Packages this installation into a .deb package.

- **package-source**

  Packages the source of this installation into a zip file.

- **package-source-with-setup**

  Packages the source of this installation into a tarball, and includes a setup.py file.

- **shell**

  Starts an interactive python shell with a module manager with all modules loaded.

- **testsuite**

  Run the test suite.

- **update-translations**

  Updater for all .pot and .po files.

## AUTHOR

OpenTeacher was written by Milan Boers, Marten de Vries, Roel Huybrechts, Cas Widdershoven and David D Lowe.

This manual page was written by Charlie Smotherman \<cjsmo@cableone.net\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).