[Screenshot_20190612-135946] I don’t know about all of you, but even though wanikani is a great tool there seem to be a lot of small things that build to frustration. For example, the error above. Why is びいだま not accepted as a correct reading when ー is just a vowel extender? Also, I realize this n…

“It’s easy to do for kanji, since we just pop in the other reading, but it wouldn’t really be a practical solution for reading typos since we’d have to think up and then manually define thousands of instances.” Thanks for your feedback! Although, I wasn’t talking about typos for the meaning. What I…

Just use a 3rd party app like Tsurukame to fix your typos or ‘honest’ lazy entries, this will be a lot less frustrating. Add your own synonyms as you go. For what I’ve been told for ビー玉, it stems from “B grade” marble so anything else doesn’t even make sense. I’d say WK is being generous by even o…

Hmmm interesting. All the same it’s asking for the reading of the words, not proper spelling, so I think “this is how it’s pronounced,” not necessarily how it’s spelled. On a side note, is びーだま correct? I know it’s used in manga and stuff but way back when I learned hiragana I was told that the ーisn…

“Reading” here is basically a translation of 読み, which in a kanji-studying context essentially means 読み仮名, so it’s the kana that represent the reading, and so you can have identical pronunciations that are wrong just for spelling reasons. For instance, when お sounds are lengthened, お or う can be us…

I have seen the vowel lengthener ー used with hiragana, but mainly in things written for young children, where they use hiragana for everything - even things that would usually be written in katakana. So, personally, I wouldn’t say that びーだま is not “correct”, but I would agree that it is not standar…

[image] Imaginary: I’ve just realized that you’re on mobile, which this wouldn’t work on, my bad. But if you use PC sometimes: The double-check script actually does work on Firefox when using Violentmonkey. :slight_smile: These also work: [image] Userscripts on Andro…

Take this with a grain of salt, since I’m talking about Elementary/Junior High School students (but no one corrected them, so), I’ve seen Japanese kids write words such as こうもり(bat, the animal) in katakana as コーモリ, which would lead me to believe it’s the same pronunciation.

Ah, gotcha! That would be more doable, since it would be similar to how the on’yomi/kun’yomi wiggle room for kanji works. Not too tough, but it would be time-consuming, so I can’t make any promises in the short-term.

Thanks again for the reply! Glad to have a passionate team that is responsive to community feedback! Keep up the good work :grin:

This is probably not the group to complain about this but I can’t find a better one and I must spit this out. Why is the meaning mnemonic of burial : 葬 not about grass on top of death? Why is there a yakuza and spoon story when we’ve learnt 死 to mean death and it’s used just as it is in this new ka…

Lots of small, seemingly simple fixes they could make WK less frustrating

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The double-check script actually does work on Firefox when using Violentmonkey.
These also work:

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Lots of small, seemingly simple fixes they could make WK less frustrating

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