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Just made an account and have to agree, it`s very nice, especially when you have a spare few minutes to kill. It`s also good that you have to type in the reading yourself, unlike most apps where you have to do it in your head, I find that actually writing the answer and thinking it in your head can sometimes lead to quite different results.
Looking forward to seeing future versions and thank you for making it. 
Cool. I like it!
kfmfe04 wrote:
Well, I just thought it would be nice to have a way to "study" lists of vocabulary. For me, personally, I don't need it for JLPT3 or JLPT4 because I know most of the vocabulary already. But when I hit JLPT2 or JLPT1 and don't know most of the vocabulary, it becomes hard to study (too many fails).
Off the top of my head, I thought It would be nice to just have a scrollable list with 4 columns: Kanji, reading, meaning, show/don't show checkbox that I can scroll and study batches at a time, but I'm not sure how this would work with so many vocabulary in JLPT1 and JLPT2.
Another possibility is, on the stats page, when I mouse-over a Kanji, show all the compounds so I can study them all at once - this might be more straightforward/useful.
Maybe some other users will have some good suggestions on the best way to study batches of new vocabulary from within your application...
Ahh ok I see what you mean now. Let me explain a bit how the program works, and then I'll come back to the vocabulary list question.
The program as it is now is set up according to the Leitner system, so as you successfully answer each word, it advances into a new group, pretty much the same idea as how this site works. The program makes one difference from the Leitner system however. Due to the nature of the application in that there are not a fixed set of cards (just an endless quiz), I added another group called the failure group, which contains all the words that have been seen, but failed. When the program goes to choose a card, this failure group has a much higher priority over the other groups that are chosen, and the priority increases the more failure cards are in the failure group. Hopefully, this makes sense 
My logic was that *ideally* with the correct settings, if you have enough failed cards, eventually the priority will become high enough in the failed group that it will sort of loop through your failed words and you won't really advance any further as the system will just stop picking out new cards. Therefore, the program would (again, ideally) force you to eventually learn the cards you don't know. So if you started out on the 2kyuu level, and knew absolutely no 2kyuu vocab or kanji, over time you should still be able to progress, albeit a bit slowly. In theory, it's an it's-ok-to-fail-cause-you'll-get-it-eventually-so-just-がんばる type of system
Back to the lists question, my thinking is that having a strict list of vocabulary words is, like you mentioned, rather unwieldy given the volume of 2kyuu and 1kyuu vocab words. This is why I set the system up in this current way, it kind of abstracts the user from the enormity of the lists and just handles a little at a time. However, I do agree that it does feel like something better could be done. Perhaps some sort of view which you can view your weak words, rather than all of them at once? I'm definitely going to give some thought to it, and if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
As for the displaying the kanji compound on mouseover on the stats page, that's a great idea. It could easily go under the current stats as there is still some empty space there. Thanks!
tokidokibenkyoushimasu wrote:
Nice site - I like it a lot already. Another way to get my kanji fix for the day...
Is there any chance you could have a user preference to turn the romaji off? Other than that, the application has worked very well for me so far, so thanks!
Sure, I'll add that in to the next version
