chrisvasselli

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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
This is awesome. I'd love to have these kind of features in Nihongo.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
By default, the backside of the card has the first "sense" from JMDict on it. This sense is supposed to represent the primary meaning of the word. You can also add/replace that with the other senses by editing the flashcard,
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
I haven't, but I'd like to! I've been meaning to start a blog to discuss topics like that, but haven't found the time quite yet.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yeah, I found the commonalities in WWWJDic/JMDict to be pretty problematic, so I came up with my own. I use a combination of corpuses including newspapers, novels, literature/poetry, and spoken language. Some of these have been ha
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
I've heard of Memrise, but haven't really spent any time playing with it. In fact, I just checked my phone and it looks like I downloaded it at some point and never opened it. Adding it to my list to check out, thanks!
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yep, Midori's great, and I even took some inspiration from them for the Clippings UI. For me, the big difference is that Midori's version isn't integrated with flashcards.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yeah, unfortunately I find the content in Aozora Bunko not all that interesting. Or at least, I don't know how to find good content in it. I actually built a proof-of-concept of a "Books" tab in Nihongo using Aozora Bunko, bu
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yeah, I think Nihongo makes a great compliment to WaniKani! Nihongo doesn't have lessons, and isn't really meant to teach you Japanese in the same way WaniKani is. I like to think of Nihongo as a great companion tool for however y
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
I would LOVE to have integration with e-books, I think that could totally change the way I learn Japanese. Since over time the app learns what words you know and what words you don't, it could even suggest books for you that are around
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Before I built Nihongo, I used to use Imiwa as my Japanese dictionary, and Flashcards Deluxe for spaced repetition studying. I built this ridiculously convoluted setup where I would upload a list of words from Imiwa to dropbox, my laptop at
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
The first couple versions of the app supported iOS 7, so when you try to download it, you should get a prompt to download the earlier version. Unfortunately, I don't have any plans to support iOS 7 going forward. =/
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yeah, it's hard to sum up the idea in 80 characters, but I like that idea of learning off of your interests . Thanks!
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback! 1. I actually just finished implementing romaji entry, and it will be coming in the next version update. Honestly, after implementing it, I can't believe how much time I've wasted switching input methods.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
I actually ended up rolling my own. There are some tricky cases involved, and I wanted full control over it.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yeah, 生 is a good example. Fortunately, there are corpuses out there with hand-parsed sentences, so we at least train on those to pick the word for 生 on its own that's most common (I just tried - it's なま). We could use this to get
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Heheh, got it! Yeah, fortunately JMDict is a really mature project, and has got a ton of these kinds of things covered.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Yeah, it's a good gripe to bring up. I'd love to come up with some indication of "confidence" in the parsing. Or maybe when there are two possible parses, give the user the ability to see both somehow?
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have any plans for Android right now. This is a solo side-project for me, so I just don't have the time. I'd love to at some point in the future though!
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Nice, that's exactly what I'm going for! Part of my philosophy with the app was to make my studying of Japanese as efficient as it could possibly be. I tried to shave out all of the time spent doing tasks that don't contribut
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Not yet! But it's on my short list of features to add! Good to know there's interest.
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
In this case, there's actually an entry in the dictionary for 「気に入る」, so it will figure out that this is a conjugation of that entry, and use 「気に入る」and its most common meaning as the flashcard. Many of these kinds of phrases exist in t
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Great questions! We include words from all different dialects, but standard Tokyo dialect will inevitably float to the top. I learned Japanese in Kansai, so I'm sensitive to this issue. =) As for how the commonality is determined, I us
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by chrisvasselli 11y ago
Hey HN, creator of Nihongo here! I spent a long time studying Japanese vocabulary using Anki, Flashcards Deluxe, etc., but I found that studying using premade word lists never worked that well for me. Nihongo is built around studying the wo
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