I was willing to learn some Chinese from BenWhately’s HSK courses (I had started that before Memrise Courses were created) and grammar from the Chinese Grammar Wiki (which has a bunch of nice information). However, I’m currently almost done with Level 1 and I found out that all the words I’ve learnt I will have to learn once again with the following HSK 2, 3 and 4 courses.
There were user-made scripts to ignore the repeating words, but all the links are dead. Does anybody possibly still have them and could he/she send them to me? Please
I mean, I really detest learning a single word multiple times - now I’m rushing something like 25-50 words a day (and their pronunciations, which gives about 40-100 in total) and having to learn words repetitively will probably successfully put me off from learning the language. Unfortunately.
The auto-ignore scripts were removed about half a year ago. It has caused major issues with chinese learners ever since. The only official statement about the change said that the feature was relatively unused and had some bugs that caused it to periodically fail to do its job properly.
If that is too complicated for you to use, just remember that the manual ‘ignore word’ button is still there. You can ignore them when you’re viewing word for the first time or when you get a word wrong (presentation mode). Also, you can ignore words when viewing the words that exist inside a level of a course.
I think I remember the lists being in the scripts from that thread? You could try to find them there. If not, they are also available elsewhere or you can copy them from the course itself.
I think I remember the lists being in the scripts from that thread?
My dear. Oh my dear. I wanted to reply that ‘the links are dead’, but then I realised that I’m an idiot. The links obviously were not in the WebArchive, but it didn’t mean they aren’t there on pastebin.com servers. Now I’ve checked. They are. If I had known it before, I wouldn’t have created this thread (I’d already searched for the ‘ignoring’ script and also visited that archived discussion). Well. Thank you anyway
or you can copy them from the course itself
In that case I’d have to go through all the levels or does each of the courses have a single list of all the words it contains?
I don’t understand your second sentence.
I wouldn’t probably understand myself as well, sorry I meant - I don’t know how the script works exactly. And I wondered if it’s possible to make it ‘learn’ all the new words it meets, which means - when the script would check a level, it’d add all the words that were not marked as “ignored” to the variable where the list of words to be ignored is stored (e.g. with an ‘if…else’ instruction that’d be triggered when a word that the script had been searching for isn’t there).
But these are just kind of off-topic as the main problem is, hopefully, solved, thank you one again!
EDIT:
My goodness, it works! (though I had to realise I had to turn Greasemonkey on in order to make the script work :P)
I meant - I don’t know how the script works exactly. And I wondered if it’s possible to make it ‘learn’ all the new words it meets, which means - when the script would check a level, it’d add all the words that were not marked as “ignored” to the variable where the list of words to be ignored is stored (e.g. with an ‘if…else’ instruction that’d be triggered when a word that the script had been searching for isn’t there).