@Noire12 The display of “< 1 min” might be a bug, I don’t think that reviews are skipped. I’ll check that out later.
@r111tan You’re right, thanks for letting me know. I just fixed that.
@MissDagger It’s the ‘+’ button in the top left corner of the app available in both lessons and reviews. When you search for vocab via the ‘Browse’ menu, you’ll have to select the word by clicking on it and then click the “View” or “Edit” button on the bottom.
Just downloaded Torii, it looks really interesting.
Is there any way to add an Item to your lessons, other than creating the Item yourself?
E.g. going into Browse → Search by Reading → Add Item to lessons?
Edit: I guess my question could also be “Can you study practice lists within the SRS intervalls, or only as additional practice?”
No that’s not possible. Practice lists are meant to be additional practice. Maybe I should add the possibility to add items to the lessons queue via the Browse interface
I just had a bug earlier that I thought I’d mention.
I had 1 review, I finished the review, went back to the main screen, and it said I had one review. I clicked it (knowing it was probably bugged) and then it just endlessly loaded until I closed the app. It was fine when I opened it back up, but just figured I should let you know. I think I had the review option on mixed at the time, and no lessons ready.
The examples for “coat” and “court” are the same, as they have the same katakana.
If this is on purpose, I think it can be a bit confusing. Especially for ESL learners.
There is only one example for “court” and the rest are “coat”.
I’ve got another weird thing. I was just doing lessons and I was halfway through the quiz (I’m pretty sure I wasn’t finished quite yet). I was installing a video driver at the same time, just as it reset my screen to finish the installation, Torii closed, I open it back up, I now have 6 lessons available instead of 5 or 10. I just don’t know which word the other one was that I was missing during the lesson. It’s not very reproducible either. haha Hopefully I still learn the word I missed.
That said, currently it is very annoying to wait 1-2 seconds between items (maybe I’m far from the server?). Is there a reason it has to send the data immediately and not do it in batches? Or do it in the background? Also my computer burns scarily hot when I use it. Unfortunately this will be a dealbreaker until the app is optimized a bit…
@iA1ec 6 lessons just means that you were able to complete 4 lessons before the app closed and the one word you were missing went back to your lessons queue. You will learn it again, no worries
@morteasd Thanks for your feedback. The overheating issue on some devices will be fixed in the next update, I’ve been working on it. As for the waiting time between items, I agree there’s room for improvements. This will have to wait a little bit though, I don’t want to delay the next update much longer. Distance to the server (it’s in Amsterdam) and connection quality in general are factors to consider.
Great to hear! I’m in Japan (and behind a VPN usually) so that definitely affects it.
Regards to the overheating, I noticed for me at least is worse in the beginning, and if the app has been open for a while it is not so bad. Maybe some initial loading is the culprit.
Thank you for your hard work! This will be a nice tool to supplement my N3 studies ^^
Feedback is appreciated. If you find any bugs, please let me know. Download links can be found in the top post.
New features
Font randomization is now available
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I got the ideas for this feature from Jitai. When you’re doing reviews, this feature automatically sets the font of the vocab to a random one you have downloaded. If you can’t read it, you can hover over it and right-click & hold (Desktop), press & hold Space (Desktop) or tap & hold (Android) to switch back to the normal font. The font will be changed for every new word.
To activate this feature and download fonts, go to Settings → Reviews. There are currently ~15 fonts to choose from, all taken from freejapanesefonts.com. (You could in theory add your own fonts by placing the *.ttf or *.otf files into the folder where Torii saves the fonts, but I don’t support it.)
If you notice anything weird, for example missing glyphs, please let me know.
It’s now easier to test one’s Kanji knowledge: Just check ‘Hide Furigana’ in Settings → Reviews. When doing reviews, press Tab to make it visible again.
Desktop: Added various keyboard shortcuts. For details, press the keyboard-shaped button in the top bar when doing reviews.
When searching for items via Browse, unlearned words can now be moved to the front of the lessons queue. This allows you to prioritize items or learn words that are not part of your currently selected Study mode. Use wisely.
Unlearned words are now visually marked with gray font color.
A auto-submit feature has been added, no need to press Enter anymore. Use wisely.
In EN->JP mode, only basic PoS will be displayed from now on (eg: ‘Verb’ instead of ‘Godan verb with su-ending’)
Added a setting to auto-play sentence audio in reviews
Added some more minor features not worth mentioning in detail
Bugfixes
Fixed a couple performance issues that could lead to overheating on some devices
Fixed an endless loading loop bug caused by the dashboard incorrectly showing ‘1 review left’
The confirm-button didn’t convert n to ん if it’s the last character of a word
Hi, just started using this, and i’d like to turn off the example sentences. I didn’t find an option for that. Or am I just blind? Btw, you’ve done a great job. The app is so nice looking :–)
@morteasd Did you update Torii right after the update was released today or just recently? Because I uploaded a hotfixed version some hours ago that should fix the issue you came across.
@grapesalads Hi, I think Settings → Lessons → ‘Hide context sentence’ is what you’re looking for ^^
Hey came across something that was a little confusing. My lessons have just presented the word 集る(たかる) with the definition extort. The examples sentences, however, are for the definition to gather; to swarm; to flock which I found on Jisho through the link. I just wanted to bring this to your attention because I was really having trouble understanding the context for this verb until I checked Jisho to see it has another definition.