Thursday January 2 2025 Content Updates

明けまして、おめでとうございます🎍

Kanji

(25) - Updated the reading mnemonic.

Vocabulary

(1) - Added にん and じん to the warning list.

王子 (2) - Removed “price” from the block list.

撃つ (28) - Added “transitive verb” as a part of speech.

教諭 (53) - Added “teaching” to the block list.

Context Sentence

We’ve added more context sentences to level 30, and now all subjects at (or up to) this level have at least three context sentences! During this process, we also updated some of the existing sentences or translations where needed.

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The often overly difficult context sentences were a pretty frustrating when I was going through these early levels a couple years ago, to the point where I ended up mostly ignoring them. It’s a great improvement!

I still feel like there should be furigana on hover or something like that. I understand that tofugu is pretty anti-furigana and I generally agree with the reasoning but having a quick and easy, opt-in way to check the readings without needing an external lookup would have no drawbacks I think.

You may also consider adding hyperlinks to the individual words that are taught on WaniKani.

Basically I’m proposing that where today you have:

ビエトは赤ちゃんを落ち着かせるのが上手い。

You could instead have:

ビエトは(あか)ちゃん()()かせるのが上手(うま)

Except with the furigana hidden by default.

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A toggle button at the end or under each sentence would be great as hover would exclude people studying on a mobile browser.

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