This is great; I can’t wait to see how it helps once I catch up to my previous studies.
I noticed early the kanji start problem (where 入り in 入り口 was highlighted for 入る)
That might be a problem in the corpus though. Combined with undo script it’s not a big problem.
edit: Actually it was the exact same double kanji bug; I just didn’t read carefully enough. The full example sentence is: “ちゃんと入り口から入ってください。” So it is just a problem of just choosing the first instance.
Hey everyone,
Sorry about the radio silence. I currently am not using WaniKani, so my ability to improve and test the script is near zero right now.
I’m glad people are still using and benefiting from the script even while being gone.
That being said, if someone else wants to try their hand at improving the script, I’ll do my best to give pointers/support.
I installed this as a beginner as I thought it makes a lot of sense. A warning would be nice as it REQUIRES grammar knowledge to differentiate conjugations. As a beginner, I do not have that grammar knowledge so this script forced me to guess my answers several times. Very frustrating. In an ideal world I would like to see a version with context only using the standard form that is also taught by WK and an option to also include conjugations. I had to deactivate this script and will come back to it in a few months when I worked through genki…
Is it possible to update the script to keep the original vocabulary word along with the sentence?
Thanks for sharing this
Does anyone know how to disable the highlight? I think it looks better with just larger font and key word centered.
I disabled it by editing the script. Go to line 157 and delete the mark tags and extra +'s, then add .bold() so you can still see the word bolded. Like this
'<span>' +
currentSentence.substr(0, vocabIndex) +
currentSentence.substr(vocabIndex, vocabLength).bold() +
currentSentence.substr(vocabIndex + vocabLength) +
'</span>';
Does this script have any options just to show the sentences with words until my current level?
Because I skip reading all the time the sentences because there are many words that I dont know the meaning and reading yet.
(Found this just now, so super late…)
The crux is you typically don’t always see words in the same context, which is why this method never works for me (I have tried. Multiple times).
After a few times, I just naturally start to recocnize which of the various context sentences this is and then I know what it means, even if I don’t remember the actual words.
If there were enough context sentences that it could show you a different one each time, then sure that’d be pretty realisic.
I’d find this a lot more useful if it’d replace the vocab after having answered instead. (Maybe I should try to learn enough userscripting to make such a script…)
Well… by stealing a bunch of stuff from this script as well as Anki Mode I’ve cobbled something together, mostly for my own usage.
Basically what my version does is that it replaces only the vocab meaning quizzes with this anki inspired verson:
So basically I’ll first show just the word, then once I think I know what it means, or can put it in context, I compare with the sample sentence (or optional translation) and grade myself accordingly.
I also made one that just replaces the word with the sample sentence after you’ve typed the answer, nothing else changed.
Like I said, I made this for myself, and it’s not super high code quality (most of which is stolen anyway), but I thought I’d mention it in case someone wants to give it a try, in which case I’ll try to figure out what my greasy fork username was and share it there.
I’m just linking this other script here so it shows up in this thread’s Post Links section for future searchability 
I’ve made a hacky edit to this script that I’m finding very useful.
Here is a gist of it.
The first major change is that it display the vocabulary as well as the sentence, with the vocabulary larger than the sentence.
The second is that I’ve added a text-to-speech function for the sentences. Assuming your browser supports it, if you click on an example sentence, a machine-generated audio will play.
This is because the script couldn’t find the word in the sentence. The word is もうしこむ or 申し込む but the one in the sentence is 申込をしました. (Seems that the WK team has changed the latest context sentence to use 申し込む).
The script tries to find the index of the word in the sentence. Because it’s not found, the index is -1. Then the script run a substr() function for the purpose of the highlighting. When you execute substr(-1), it will go to the end of the sentence and grab the 。character instead. Then it will cut some part of the sentence and add that character in front. That’s how you get this.
Maybe it’s better to add another checking logic. If the index is not found, don’t show the context. I would add:
if (vocabIndex < 0) {
context.hide();
return;
}
on line 150.
Thanks for this! I took your gist and made two small changes
@OnigiriBoooy, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but I think the WK team added certain words and there isn’t context sentences for them yet. The one I’ve seen so far is “lucky” 「運がいい」I thought you may want to know about this so yeah, but otherwise, love the script!
This isn’t working with the new update, I’d love an update if possible!
I am also hoping for an update. Is there an alternative? I only see some scripts displaying the sentence below the target item, but merging it like in this script here is much better imo.
What’s the script? I’d like to have a context sentence in some form at least.
This one is still being updated – [Userscript] Simple Show Context Sentence