meolox wrote:

Sorry to go a bit off-topic but I figure I could get a quick answer here, ファブリス do you ever plan to adapt Trinity to be used for Chinese & Hanzi or possibly other languages, if you were to do that I'm more than sure people would be willing to pay for subscription and you'd open the website to a larger audience.

Definitely. That's why I need to "refactor" the site. Don't wait for it though

BUG: When reviewing 親切 in the vocabulary section I got the card in this format:

question:
しんせつ
親切 (word usually written with kana)

answer:
しんせつ
kindness; gentleness

I want to test the reading of the compound. Other cards I have tested did not show the kana in the question and did not have the "(word usually written with kana)".

Last edited by Pauline (2008 March 13, 5:34 pm)

I'm really excited about Trinity as well.  Cool stuff so far.  The sharing is what i think will help make it fabulous.  And, as mentioned before, if there were some predefined lists (i.e. 2kyuu vocab, etc.), that would save a lot of time.  I've got some 2kyuu vocab lists for iFlash but I don't want to have to cut & paste them and then search for thousands of definitions just to get started.   

One suggestion:
When adding vocabulary to a list AND when adding vocabulary from a sentence, the FIND vocabulary area is under all the previously added vocabulary.  If I've got a long list of of vocabulary, I've got to scroll down each time to get to the FIND vocab line.  If the search for next vocab line could be ABOVE the previously existing vocab, it would be more effective, methinks.

I'm traveling at the moment so I'm doing this on my 12" notebook.  For the most part things fit into the screen well.  I did notice that when I went to review one sentence where I had lots of vocab selected, clicked 'SHOW KANJI', and all the readings/definitions of the vocab were listed, they partially covered the 'Do you know this kanji? yes/no/easy' text.  I'm doing this on Mac Firefox.  Has any one else had this happen? 

hope i didn't repeat anything that was previously posted!  Thanks again for all the hard work on this
-Andy

Last edited by takoman (2008 March 13, 7:15 pm)

Same as Pauline. いろは shows both kana and kanji in question and has "(usually written in kana)" in the question too.

Pauline wrote:

しんせつ
親切 (word usually written with kana)

hmmm...that is odd...I seem to think I've seen it more often than not in kanji.

johnzep wrote:

Pauline wrote:

しんせつ
親切 (word usually written with kana)

hmmm...that is odd...I seem to think I've seen it more often than not in kanji.

This may well be a bug.

Jim Breen wrote:

親切(P); 深切(oK) 【しんせつ】 (adj-na,n) kindness; gentleness; (P)

oK - word containing out-dated kanji

Is it possible to have a vocab item be part of more than one list? For example if I want to have a JLPT vocab list, but then within this split it into Verbs, Adjectives etc. Similarly if I wanted a list of only foods they would be overlap between other lists but I want to keep all the items in the original list also.

When vocab is added from sentences can it automatically be added to a specified vocab list?

After adding vocab in the sentences section the page jumps back up to the top which can be irritating.

Already mentioned before but will say again, automatic saving of sentence when you click "New"

Again, mentioned before, but a button to add all the vocab from a sentence automatically, the way I saw it working would after clicking the "auto add" button a pop up opens asking you to confirm the entries incase any errors in lookup occured.

Otherwise I love trinity

watashimo wrote:

How do you do that?

Just type in an expression you know and see if it takes it, e.g.

かおがひろい
めがたかい
みみがとおい

IE compatibility: these have to be typed in in kana for them to be accepted however in Firefox kanji is fine.

Everytime I add an new sentence I am adding vocab for all the words, even the words I now, cos doing so my On/Kun Readings grows up. My plain is to keep doing sentences until I got 100% on/kun readings. After that maybe I can use J-J cards, maybe using Anki or whatever...

How are u guys working on Trinity, you just add vocab for unknown word or for every word?

It would be good if we can see which words we already have added!

In the add Kanji compound list for 中 for the なか pronunciation, 中中 is listed twice.

takoman wrote:

When I review one of these sentences and click the 'Show Kanji' button, on the next screen where the definitions are shown, they cover up the 'Do you remember this kanji? Yes/No/Easy' option.  So basically I'm stuck because I can't choose any thing so the cards are permantely stuck in my non-tested stack.

You can use the shortcuts (Y/N/E) until that is fixed. Or are they also not working?

Even in Firefox, some phrases are only accepted as vocabulary items when they are typed in hiragana. The vocab list editor finds そのてはくわない but not その手は食わない. Even though entering in the hiragana returns the kanji vocabulary item.

However it finds 顔が広い fine when you enter the kanji. Not sure what the difference is. The both appear in on Jim Breen's site.

EDIT: can't find てをつくす to add in the Vocab list editor even though it is in Jim Breen's dictionary.

Last edited by synewave (2008 March 16, 5:40 am)

synewave wrote:

The vocab list editor finds そのてはくわない but not その手は食わない. Even though entering in the hiragana returns the kanji vocabulary item.

Thanks, turned out to be fairly simple bug. Should work now.

If any kanji is present, it searches the kanji part, otherwise it searches the reading/phonetic part for a match. It was testing only the first character, I've fixed it to test all characters in the search.