I have the Hiragana Japanese keyboard installed (I’m an English speaker), but it’s difficult to type the Dakuten so I’m always getting the answers wrong. I was able to use the little bracket key and then the circle/quotation mark key, but Wani doesn’t recognize my answer with the brackets still there so I have to go back and delete them
If I type on my English keyboard, then it changes to Japanese – good – but it keeps changing when I’m trying to type the meaning and I want to use English. Any suggestions? Thank you.
If I understand the question right, using the iPad hiragana keyboard you can hold the key and it will give you the dakuten option to the side - just slide your finger across to select that.
Thank you so much! I hadn’t known of that technique to hold for options on the Hiragana keyboard.
Now I just need to know how to get my English keyboard to write in English, not Hiragana. I tried the hold, but the letters show only accented versions.
It doesn’t happen all the time, but I always get stuck on “eight.” It keeps writing the Hiragana, and I have to exit the lesson or quiz for it to reset or whatever it does.
I’m a little confused by this. Are you sure it’s the English keyboard you’re using? There’s a full hiragana keyboard and an English/japanese one which will automatically convert to hiragana. So you need to make sure you’re not using that to type in English.
I personally would not use a Japanese keyboard at all on WaniKani. Presumably that’s why you’re running into issues, you’d need to switch keyboards for Japanese readings and English meanings. That just seems like it would slow your reviews way down.
I think I found the right keyboard, I can toggle between English and ひりがな by touching the key where CAPS usually is. Thank you for your patient assistance.
I do my reviews on iPad/iPhone. I do have the Japanese keyboards set up, but they’re completely unnecessary for WK. when it wants English, it acts as an English keyboard. When it wants Japanese, it acts as romaji keyboard. You’re making a lot of extra work for yourself with little gain.