When learning the reading for a kanji, is it important to also learn whether that’s the on’yomi or kun’yomi reading?
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In my opinion, it’s not important for a beginner to be concerned about that. It will probably become naturally more clear which is which as you gain experience.
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Hi. I’m finally learning the language and just finished katakana. Working on Kanji now.
Couldn’t find an answer for this anywhere: I see that Campfire is locked for me… do I have to reach a certain level first?
It’s not locked, it’s just a weird use of the symbol to indicate that it’s not publically searchable.
Boards that are locked to you are completely invisible to you.
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I have to say, now that I have more words and kanji in my repertoire, I am really enjoying things. Good work guys!
…Now get back to work!
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Hi, I guru’d my first radicals, but now I don’t have an hover saying I’ll get a review in one week or so, why is that?
You probably now have lessons that you need to do.
Thanks but that is not what I meant, I meant why there is no “Your next guru review is in 6 days”. Now I have to click on each item to see in how long I’ll be reviewed
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Hello hello, welcome!
It sounds like the new dashboard system and it’s hover messages are only geared towards the notion of level progression, and in that case, the thing that matters most is hitting Guru once for any new items. 
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Not sure if this is the right place, but the search function didn’t give me any good results and I didn’t want to add a new topic just for that.
I just failed my burn review for the vocab card 方, because I put in “person” as a meaning instead of “way” or “direction”. Shouldn’t that absolutely be included in the default meanings? Or am I missing something?
Is it vocabulary or kanji version ?
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Looking at the vocab page, they’re accepting かた as well as ほう, so “person” is not an unfair option to add as a synonym.
I wonder if anything changed / was added in the overhaul and they forgot to add a synonym. You can send them an email with the suggestion.
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Looking at their use of かた in the example sentence, it’s not the “person” meaning. It’s わらい方 “way of laughing”. So I’m not sure that just because they have かた that it means they meant to have person.
ほう and かた can both get translated as “way”, while “person” can only be かた, so that might be why person isn’t there.
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Usually you don’t have to be keeping example sentences in mind to choose the synonym, though. ^^ Especially at those lower levels.
Since they also allow かた as an answer, and given that kanji with the reading of かた can mean “person,” adding it as user synonym at least seems fair.
Maybe they’re trying not to pile too many exceptions and alt meanings into lower levels. 
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Well, the other way of looking at it is ほう is accepted, so they didn’t intend for the the person can meaning.
The example sentence just demonstrates it.
This is the same issue as with other multi-meanjng-multi-reading words, but it’s complicated by having one meaning that applies to both readings and another that doesn’t.
Usually a different reading / meaning combo is completely separate.
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I mean I can’t really look at the example sentences when the meaning comes up. It’s a vocab card, so if I see this vocab coming up in a text, it definitely can mean person. In fact I think most of the time I see this vocab “in the wild” it means person.
Well, I guess that would have more to do with what you’re encountering than anything. かた for person is keigo, while ほう and かた for way are just standard, non-honorific words. I’m not saying all 3 aren’t common.
But they don’t want people to learn ほう = person, so they don’t have person on there. They could have alternatively eliminated ほう and done かた only for way and person, which also would have only taught valid pairs.
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Yeah of course it’s because I encounter a lot of keigo in my Japanese classes or all the train warning signs or advertising during commute. Point is, it’s not an obscure meaning, so I was just really surprised that it wasn’t set there.
Right… they didn’t forget it exists, it’s just a limitation of the system.
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Hey! First post here. I’m wondering what critical condition items are. I’m guessing it’s not great, considering those are the lessons I’ve been having trouble with over the past few days? I looked in the FAQ but couldn’t find any information.
Regardless, I’m glad to be here!
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