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Reply #51 - 2008 December 06, 1:30 pm
yo6shi9 Member
From: London Registered: 2008-08-18 Posts: 29

I really like this site. I started to add some Japanese keywords in Firefox.. So I still use the English ones most of the time, but I get used to the Japanese prononciations as well at the same time.
It would be nice if all this work to add Japanese Keywords, or change some of the Heisig one that I think are not really inspiring or not connected to the main meaning of the kanji, that I mean all this would be stored under my profile log in and not only on the Firefox "cookies" or preferences. So that if I open this site on my iphone I would be still able to see the xtra keywords that I manually inputted
Is this possible ?

Last edited by yo6shi9 (2008 December 06, 1:31 pm)

Reply #52 - 2008 December 06, 1:50 pm
playadom Member
Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 468

While on this topic, I'm going to take the opportunity and ask Fabrice to never add a thread rating or user rating system. I've seen terrible things happen to forums once those were introduced.

Reply #53 - 2008 December 06, 3:17 pm
Jon_B Member
From: California Registered: 2008-08-18 Posts: 60

I just got an iPod touch and since this is the device I will probably be using most for this site, I would like to see next and last navigation buttons for the forum pages. I find that if I don't zoom enough I sometimes hit the wrong page. But that's just if it's convenient for you.

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Reply #54 - 2008 December 06, 4:19 pm
kazelee Rater Mode
From: ohlrite Registered: 2008-06-18 Posts: 2132 Website

I personally think there are uses to status. Post count is irrelevant, but ability in Japanese isn't. I realize that just because someone has studied for 6 years and another one just for 1 year, we can't know for sure that the 6 year student is a better source. But I would personally prefer advice from someone who has passed JLPT1 than someone who is working on JLPT4, if you know what I mean. Not to say that the opinion of the second person should be ignored, but it might be relevant to know, in some cases.

That could lead to all sorts of wrong when it comes to discussion. I can see many arguments diverging into battles of status and ego. Also, given there are many routes to one goal, simply having something that says "I passed" gives no indication of how one got there; JLPT 2 in 6 months vs JPLT 1 in 15 years, etc. There's already enough of this sort of thing on the net. Why create yet another means of separation?

Reply #55 - 2008 December 06, 4:29 pm
Thora Member
From: Canada Registered: 2007-02-23 Posts: 1691

mstarostka wrote:

From my experience , [...]I know that learning is easier if you can split it into small chunks with achievable targets. And once you achieve no matter how small target you should receive some sort of positive feedback

I think so too, but doesn't the chapter progess wall achieve that? I found that seeing that gradually change colour was a good progress monitor and motivator for me.  I also don't see much purpose for a public, competitive system as pace varies for different reasons among people. Besides, folks seem to find other ways to help motivate each other.

Badges? I couldn't help but picture all these RTKers running around with rows of little triangular badges sewn onto their yellow and blue RTK uniforms. Perhaps with an RTK-scarf-to-beat-all-scarves from our poster guy... smile...

Reply #56 - 2008 December 06, 4:54 pm
bodhisamaya Guest

Tobberoth wrote:

phauna wrote:

I personally think there are uses to status. Post count is irrelevant, but ability in Japanese isn't. I realize that just because someone has studied for 6 years and another one just for 1 year, we can't know for sure that the 6 year student is a better source. But I would personally prefer advice from someone who has passed JLPT1 than someone who is working on JLPT4, if you know what I mean. Not to say that the opinion of the second person should be ignored, but it might be relevant to know, in some cases.

The focus of this site is not studying Japanese.  It is for remembering and writing kanji.  A user who becomes the most skilled at this, in theory, might not know a lick of Japanese.

Last edited by bodhisamaya (2008 December 06, 4:55 pm)

Reply #57 - 2008 December 07, 9:28 am
mstarostka New member
From: UK Registered: 2008-11-28 Posts: 3

Personally, it would be great if there were two types of flashcards. One working like they are working right now ~ testing writing the kanjis, the other checking the 'reading' skills (meaning you're given a kanji, write down the meaning, check it and so on). In summary, I would love to be able to use flashcards in two ways.

Reply #58 - 2008 December 08, 6:34 am
ファブリス Administrator
From: Belgium Registered: 2006-06-14 Posts: 4021 Website

Jon_B wrote:

(...) I would like to see next and last navigation buttons for the forum pages. (...)

Good idea, the pagination is not very user friendly as it is. I'm working on it.

Reply #59 - 2008 December 08, 7:39 am
Pete171 Member
From: England Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 23

I sometimes take a long time doing my reviews and can be looking at a keyword for a long time before I recall the kanji (or give up and fail it).  I know I could literally cut my review time in half if I was more strict with the time I give myself to remember them, but I find it very hard to keep to, say, a 5 second (or whatever) time limit for each one.

Perhaps you could incorporate an optional system where you can specify a countdown time for the keywords before their respective kanji is automatically displayed on the screen?

Reply #60 - 2008 December 08, 7:20 pm
woelpad Member
From: Chiba Registered: 2006-11-07 Posts: 425

Evil_Dragon wrote:

I'm currently using a greasemonkey script to replace English keywords with German ones ("Substitute Keywords"), will I still be able to use that after the redesign? I'd have to switch to another SRS otherwise which might be pretty troublesome.

No need to worry about that. I'll just upgrade the scripts after the redesign comes live. Just send me a PM. The upgrade might take a couple of days though.

yo6shi9, you want to see the list you made on a single web page, right? That kind of idea was torpedoed when I first released the script, to discourage sharing officially translated keywords without permission, but times are changing. Might do something about it some day.

Reply #61 - 2008 December 10, 1:59 am
woelpad Member
From: Chiba Registered: 2006-11-07 Posts: 425

Better still, post a message in the Greasemonkey thread to which I'm subscribed.

Reply #62 - 2008 December 10, 4:41 am
Evil_Dragon Member
From: Germany Registered: 2008-08-21 Posts: 683

Will do! Thanks for your effort. smile

Reply #63 - 2008 December 14, 9:02 am
salvw New member
From: Netherlands Registered: 2008-11-22 Posts: 5

playadom wrote:

Do you think you could add an 'undo' button to the reviews? Anki has one.

The mistakes I make in marking a card every so often probably get worked out in time by the SRS, but a little extra accuracy won't hurt.

QFT

Reply #64 - 2008 December 22, 2:14 pm
tleguijt New member
From: Netherlands Registered: 2008-08-20 Posts: 1

I've got a little RFE; I often use the website jisho.org to lookup kanji details (more meanings of a Kanji and example sentences). It would be nice if there would be a link to this (or a similar) site with more kanji details.

Reply #65 - 2008 December 22, 2:29 pm
bodhisamaya Guest

I wonder if there is a way to view reports by most recent.  I have 63 reported stories (out of 2165 shared so maybe not so bad) which is up a couple from a few days ago.   I have been adding kana from RTK2 to my old stories. A few of the reports have been due to my typos and I want to correct those ASAP so as not to confuse anyone.  But I am not sure which reports are new so I can take a look at them.

Reply #66 - 2008 December 22, 2:33 pm
yo6shi9 Member
From: London Registered: 2008-08-18 Posts: 29

oh, and a small idea.
When in the study section and browsing through the stories, would it be possible to have a key shortcut for moving forward or backwards without usint the mouse and click on the arrows? It is not a big issue but I am a laptop user and used to use as many shortcuts as possible.

Reply #67 - 2008 December 22, 5:16 pm
CSBarnes New member
From: USA Registered: 2008-11-06 Posts: 3

It's not really a 'site' idea but I would love an external program (SRS) just for RTK that can sync with this website.  Quite often I have my laptop in places I don't have an internet connection and I like to review my kanji before studying new ones, so quite often I end up not being able to do either.

Reply #68 - 2009 January 01, 5:45 pm
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

Hi, I could not find the place for a bugreport so I'm doing it here.
When you enter a kanji that is outside RTK, you'll always get this page:
http://kanji.koohii.com/study/index.php?search=贅

Reply #69 - 2009 January 18, 5:37 pm
Shingo Member
From: US Registered: 2008-02-06 Posts: 58

I havn't read all of the other suggestions so this may have already been said but would it be possible to have a small box to type in what you had trouble with in the character when you fail a card.

Something small like "primitive order" or something so that when you come to review it you can work on correcting this thing and not forget, only to fail it the next time for the same reason etc?

Last edited by Shingo (2009 January 18, 5:37 pm)

Reply #70 - 2009 January 18, 6:01 pm
bodhisamaya Guest

I saw one of the users has an animated forum kanji pic that does stroke order.  I know next to nothing about computer programming, but it would be such an incredible addition if each kanji in the study page was animated in such a way with stroke order.

Reply #71 - 2009 January 18, 7:55 pm
colinsky New member
From: Japan Registered: 2006-01-25 Posts: 2

Shingo wrote:

I havn't read all of the other suggestions so this may have already been said but would it be possible to have a small box to type in what you had trouble with in the character when you fail a card.

Not sure if this helps, but I tend to add such a comment directly to my story for that character...