Hello everyone. 久しぶりだね！ I bet you didn’t think you’d see me here, and that’s because we did a maintenance update today without needing to take the site down for the first time ever! (Cue cheers and applause for the dev team.) Anyway, here’s everything we touched: Moved [Level 1→3] アメリカ人 [Level …

[image] DaisukeJigen: [image] chiasa: especially carrot I hate words like this. Person + Participate = Carrot? What? Why? That makes no sense. Whats the story here? Here ya go. [image] ニンジン／人参／にんじん - 語源由来辞典にんじんの意味、語源、由来を解説。セリ科の越年草で、根は黄橙色や紅赤色。名前は人の形に似た「朝鮮人参（オタネニンジン）」か…

Wow… I don’t know what I expected but I didn’t expect that. Thanks for the infinite knowledge!

I don’t know what Graded readers you’re reading… Unless they’re the non-Joyo really common Kanji that are conspicuously missing from WK like 嬉しい and 匂い

[image] Syphus: I don’t know what Graded readers you’re reading… Unless they’re the non-Joyo really common Kanji that are conspicuously missing from WK like 嬉しい and 匂い Getting very specific here: http://www.ask-books.com/tadoku/3/kibitu.html The joyo kanji in the title not used in WK is: …

Jisho has it as an N2 kanji, and I’ve never seen it on any lists for N3 or below, so I’m not sure that it’s really going to come up on anything for beginners. The most likely place to encounter it seems to be stories that involve kind of old-fashioned Japanese cooking, etc. The inner bowl of a rice …

Ahh yea you’re right it is, it must’ve been on the last Joyo revision or I’m imagining stuff now. かま is definitely a sometimes kana / sometimes Kanji word, my IME didn’t even convert it automatically.

[image] Low level lessons at higher level WaniKani ARGH! I had wondered why I had a review for 首位, which I was sure I had never seen before but was almost all the way to guru. Had me questioning whether there was a bug that affected other items as well, or whether I had …

In this case I wonder if making it a new item would have made more sense.

I think it would have. Both the kanji and the reading changed. And it’s the onyomi reading of 首, which isn’t taught in the lesson for that kanji and only shows up in one previous vocab word (I think).

[image] MastodonFarm: Both the kanji and the reading changed What do you mean by that? It’s one word with two different ways to write it in kanji form. EDIT: Actually, the common JE dictionaries might just be wrong on that. They do seem to have different definitions in monolingual dictionari…

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