Week 43
Thoughts on new UI patch: You Can Now Prioritize Your Reviews by "Apprentice First" (plus, Kanji Hoverpocalypse™ updates)
Once again we get statements from the Dev Team that contradict what the website actually does. [quote=“koichi, post:1, topic:72226”]
- All apprentice items are priority — i.e. they are more likely to be forgotten, more quickly.
- I also didn’t want to say “current level items” are more important than previous level items. When you level up, those vocabulary items from the previous level that appear are important to continue to add some more of that varied context to your kanji understanding.
- I don’t want to discourage people from learning or spending time in the vocabulary. An option to only indicate radicals / kanji would imply that vocab isn’t important when really it’s probably the most important of the three item categories we have right now.
- I don’t want to encourage people to level up quickly for the sake of leveling up.
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What’s this new focus on vocabulary? If it were that important, why don’t users have to complete any part of those in order to level up?
Context
I’m almost at the limit of my patience. もうそろそろ我慢の限界だ．expression the limits of one’s patience, the last straw, the end of one’s tether
I have to lose weight. 体重を減らさなければならない．
Strike while the iron is hot. 鉄は熱いうちに打て。
He has an allure that attracts people. 彼には人を引き付ける魅力がある。
The transparency of this lake has improved recently. この湖は最近透明度が増してきた。
Through what sort of mechanism does this process start? どういつ仕組みでこの過程は始まるのだろうか？
The process is even more important than the result. 結果よりも過程が大事だ．
I would like to ask for your honest opinion regarding this matter. この件について率直なご意見を何いたく存じます。I would appreciate your honest opinion on this matter.
It will take some time before the effects appear. 効果が現れるまでにしばらく時間がかかる。
Vocabulary
| DUO | WK | EN | KANJI | KANA | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.36 | SCIENCE | ||||
| formula e.g math | 公式 | こ う し き | official, formal compare WK 15 ALT 式 | ||
| 52, 26 | patience | 我慢 | が ま ん | self-restraint | |
| 40 | transparent | 透明 | と う め い | clear | |
| 54, 28, 13 | microscope | 顕微鏡 | け ん び きょ う | ||
| chart | 図表 | ず ひょ う | diagram, graph compare WK 5 図 | ||
| 7 | mechanism | 仕組み | し く み | workings, structure | |
| 34 | magnet | 磁石 | じ しゃ く | じせき compass | |
| introduction | 導入 | ど う にゅ う | bringing in, installation | ||
| to attract | 引き付ける | ひ き つ け る | to entice | ||
| 28 | process | 過程 | か て い | course, mechanism | |
| emphasis | 重視 | じゅ う し | regarding as important compare WK 10 強調 |
Started B1-2. Close reading of the course description reveals that B1-2 is not B1 to B2 but actually just the second part of B1. This is the last course offered, therefore I will kind of not make my goal of B2 by end of year.
Graded readers continue:
まだらの紐 9 of 31 pages sherlock holmes
Challenge: rumade’s 42 try I started and failed on day 2. Restarted today with better results.