A while ago I wrote a Wanikani-related web app (duendecat.com) which cycles through an automatic slideshow of sentences that contain kanji based on your Wanikani level.
Lately I’ve been thinking that it would be useful if there was a similar version of the app that could be used as a browser “new tab” page (showing just one random sentence each time the page loads), and so I put something together.
My first sentence was: 私は悲しい映画は嫌いだ。 I’m on level 13, and there is a Kanji from level 14 (私) and one from level 20 (嫌) in the sentence. Is that supposed to be?
Under options I set my API key and Tab Content to Current level and below: Sentence…using Chrome.
My next sentence was: どうして彼女としりあったのですか。 Just one Kanji and it is from level 35…
Many sentences in the Tanaka Corpus are still bad, and I would highly suggest either using something else or putting a giant warning that says “Warning: Sentences may not be natural Japanese.”
DavidDettling said...
Thanks. I like this idea, and I'm trying it out.
My first sentence was: 私は悲しい映画は嫌いだ。 I'm on level 13, and there is a Kanji from level 14 (私) and one from level 20 (嫌) in the sentence. Is that supposed to be?
Under options I set my API key and Tab Content to Current level and below: Sentence....using Chrome.
My next sentence was: どうして彼女としりあったのですか。 Just one Kanji and it is from level 35...
I closed and reopened Chrome and it's still showing all Kanji. So I'm thinking something's not working right.
I don't know how you were able to enter your API key there, but I clicked cumulative level and then clicked the level that I'm on and I didn't see any unfamiliar kanji.
JackTsuchiyama said... I don't know how you were able to enter your API key there, but I clicked cumulative level and then clicked the level that I'm on and I didn't see any unfamiliar kanji.
Interesting, it sounds like our options interfaces are different...mine just has a box for API Key and one set of boxes for Tab Content. I don't have any boxes for level anything.
I realized that even after setting the options in the Chrome extension, it always sets the New Tab page to be “http://www.duendecat.com/any”. Which would explain why I see Kanji from all levels.
DavidDettling said...
I realized that even after setting the options in the Chrome extension, it always sets the New Tab page to be "http://www.duendecat.com/any". Which would explain why I see Kanji from all levels.
This happened to me too. It seems the chrome extension is not reading the settings somehow.
Is it possible to change the font to one that shows different characters for 一 and ー? Being unexperienced, is kind of hard to tell which one is which some times.
DavidDettling said...
I realized that even after setting the options in the Chrome extension, it always sets the New Tab page to be "http://www.duendecat.com/any". Which would explain why I see Kanji from all levels.