Comments on: Speedanki and the official JLPT vocabulary

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:33:17 +0000

In my opinion, having a limited number of words adds focus and makes it easier to study. I think it would be a mistake to flood the levels with hundreds or even thousands of new words. I’d keep it the way it is.

Off topic: I’d love to see an offline version that I could download and run on my pc without an internet connection.

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:29:25 +0000

I’d personally love more content to study on this website!

That said, I think others have good points about motivation and preference. I want you to add more vocabulary because I love learning as much as I can. However, I think it would be smart to add them under new options so as it wouldn’t bother others wishing to only study basic/more common kanji/vocab.

By: Yukitosumi

Yukitosumi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:24:41 +0000

Hello,

You know what would be GREAT!!!! I mean, really amazing – is if there were an option to export a list of kanji to a table that would allow one to then print out a kanji practice sheet containing selected kanji. You know the kind of practice sheets all Japanese kids use in school: ten colums and ten rows of 1/2 inch boxes (with a little space between each box to make it easier on the eyes).

I think that if you don’t write the kanji at least once, then it’s very hard to differentiate the thousands of strokes and combination of shapes (i.e. radicals) that form all the various kanji.

This would be AMAZING and I haven’t found another site where you can basically generate your own practice sheets. Would definitely boost your site traffic.

Thank you.

By: Jamie MacG

Jamie MacG — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:48:51 +0000

ok sure ^_^

By: Vili

Vili — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:52:40 +0000

Some very insightful comments here, thanks!

Sumiko said: “A lot of the jlpt vocabulary and grammar could just be used in the example sentences, but doesn’t need individual cards.”

Very good point. For now I take it from your comments that adding tons of new cards is not the biggest priority at least. I’ll be addressing the example sentences in a blog post soonish.

Cheers!

By: Jamie MacG

Jamie MacG — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:48:48 +0000

Word.

Hmm, aye this is a tough one! Though I for one, would not like to have to learn 5000 for level 2 -_-

I think that if you have the time, then you could always add the offical card lists separately!

And yea, the kun/on yomi thing is important, and well as the point about us sending exapmles etc.

(sumiko what the hell is opthalmalogy? haha)

By: Sumiko

Sumiko — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:07 +0000

Maybe you should add a way to the cards that we could send you sample sentences or corrections referenced to that card. That worked really well with kanjikuma.com. For example, right now the card for 眼科　has the definition ‘eye hospital’, if you had that button, I could suggest eye clinic, or better, opthalmalogy. Or the card after that, 検出　Needｓ a sentence。　I could send you　その振動は検出可能な水準を下回っています。

By: Lili

Lili — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:22:32 +0000

A possible way to make everyone happy might be to add levels, rather than options;
for example, level 4 would stay as it is, a level 4a could include all 700 words of the “official” list, there could be a level 3a and 3b with 700 words each etc.

This way, if you want to go straight to “useful” vocab, you can just skip those additional levels. And such a solution would probably not be too difficult to implement from a technical point of view.
I think you’re right to say that motivation would be a problem with 5000-word levels. Breaking it into bits is probably easier – at least for me.

By: Michèle Ouellet

Michèle Ouellet — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:28:27 +0000

or rather invaluable.

By: Michèle Ouellet

Michèle Ouellet — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:27:44 +0000

Yes, I agree with Sumiko that it would be fantastic to be able to get to both onyomi and kunyomi easily. At this point, I try to recall one when I get the other but feedback would be valuable.