Acknowledgements

🌮 The Living Spanish Language

• Wiktionary & Kaikki.org: Countless volunteer lexicographers and the Kaikki extraction project made the rich dictionary data that powers Jolito’s offline translation and verb inflection assistance. Content licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
• HermitDave & OpenSubtitles: Real-world subtitle word frequency data that helps Jolito highlight the colloquial phrases and everyday words people actually speak on the street.

🎨 Typography & Design

• Mathieu Triay: Designer of Bricolage Grotesque, the delightfully expressive, rhythmic typeface that gives Jolito its bold CDMX modernist character. Distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

🎙️ Spoken Voices

• Microsoft Neural Speech: High-definition Mexican Spanish voices (Dalia & Jorge) and English prompts (Jenny & Guy) that give Jolito its natural spoken cadence.
• Browser Speech Engines: The device-native speech synthesis engines built into iOS, macOS, and Android that keep pronunciation instant and reliable even when completely offline.

🛠️ The Open-Source Engine

Jolito operates local-first and offline thanks to these foundation libraries:

• sql.js: SQLite compiled to WebAssembly, keeping cards and review history securely stored directly in your browser. (MIT)
• fflate: Super-fast ZIP parsing for Anki deck packages. (MIT)
• React, Capacitor, & Zod: The reactive UI, native iOS container, and strict runtime contract validations. (MIT)

❤️ Community & Inspiration

A big shoutout to my friends and teachers at International House Mexico in Condesa, and to Mexico City itself—the street stalls, metro rides, and daily neighborhood chats that inspired this project.