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great!
how do you solve the problem of synonyms at this level? - the issue - in the case of chinese- drives me nutsâŚ
Short answer: I havenât yet.
Longer answer: Iâm going to take the course myself and Iâll be adding synonyms as they crop up. I know itâs not ideal for early users, but Iâm hoping that after I take it, as well as a few others, the course will be in ship shape for the next wave!
If you have any other ideas, please let me know and Iâll incorporate 
i have not, unfortunatelly 
⌠and in real communication i happen to mix up things because of this issue - not really knowing how to really learn/recognise (the many) alternatives ways of writting/saying in MandarinâŚ
My only advice is to keep at it and copy what the native speakers do. My friends or teacher will let me know if Iâm (trying) to use a written form when speaking and vice versa.
Also, there are so many specific terms that they have for certain contexts that I just fumble my way through and let them correct me. Basic example: you can use ćźäşŽ to describe a person, clothes, or environment. But you canât use çžä¸˝ to describe a person. And you can use either ćźäşŽ or çžä¸˝ to describe a voice or sound!
丞 - lift above your head
ć - carry in one hand with the arm down
ćŹ - lift with two hands
ć - lift up a cover/curtain
ćą - carry in the arms
çç
!!! 
thanks!
however, my problem these weeks focuses on understanding technical projetcs⌠in specialized terminology the individual pictograms vary their meanings considerably⌠also, speaking about directions, sizes, standards, component, everythings is very different from what one gets in classes, manuals, memrises ⌠ufffâŚ
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Oh wow, that does sound super tricky. Itâs hard enough to manage tech projects in oneâs native language!
Thanks for your hard work in setting up a new course. Iâm about to finally finish HSK5 vocabulary, and am looking to progress into HSK6 territory. Can I ask: what is the advantage of this course over the established Maltronikus course?
Thanks for your note. I set the course up because some folks had requested an HSK 6 that tested on Chinese with English prompts. Thereâs a few other courses, including the Maltronikus course, that test both ways.
For some, thatâs preferred. For me, it effectively doubles the number of items so you have to learn 5000 as opposed to 2500.
Since I myself just finished up taking BenWhatelyâs HSK 5, I wanted to continue with the same approach but there wasnât an HSK 6 that only tested on Chinese.
Ah okay great. Yeah I agree thatâs an improvement via simplicity. Previously, I was thinking of taking the Maltronikus but only doing the English -> Chinese levels.
Another question: howâs the ordering of vocabulary configured? One issue Iâve had with the HSK5 course was the ordering: sometimes I learned compound words before I learned the individual characters.
Vocab is in frequency order (by most common -> least common) as provided by HSK here.
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Good news:
Note that when ordering by frequency, characters used within a word were, if necessary, moved before they are used, e.g. ĺ° is placed just before ĺ¤ĺ° even though ĺ° is less frequent.
Cool. Good to know!
By the way, it seems that when you separated the vocabulary into levels, it didnât wipe my progress after all, which is great
Phew!
Only thing that will change from now on is the adding of audio, but that shouldnât impact progress.
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Cool
Would you mind making it so that the pinyin is shown after you answer a question correctly, like in some of the other Chinese courses?
Hey there, Iâve made the update to always show pinyin.
(I also increased font size of the characters.)
Let me know if this is what you were looking for or if I missed a check box! 
Looks like it worked. Thanks! I donât suppose thereâs a good way to increase the size of the pinyin when itâs shown in this way?
弽ç I think I increased the pinyin size. Let me know if it looks okay. 