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Yes, sure!
Cool!
So, first thing: there are currently two different levels that teach the é ± character, and the characters have different definitions. One is in one of the last levels, and itās defined as āSauce (Jam, paste)ā. The other is somewhere earlier in the course, and itās defined as just āPasteā.
Iām thinking it would be best to remove the item for é ± that appears later in the course.
The other thing that Iām wondering is where you found the word ęē²ē. Itās currently defined as āthumbnail piecesā, and Iām assuming that itās supposed to be referring to the little pictures that you see on menus in Chinese restaurant, but I canāt find much to corroborate that.
Thanks
The other thing that Iām wondering is where you found the word ęē²ē. Itās currently defined as āthumbnail piecesā, and Iām assuming that itās supposed to be referring to the little pictures that you see on menus in Chinese restaurant, but I canāt find much to corroborate that.
I had a lot of confusion about that one at first as well.
For the ęē²ē in cooking it would mean that you āmakeā the food into nail sized pieces.
I found this in a cooking recipe
āå§åęē²ēā ~ cut the ginger into nail sized pieces
more often have I however seen it together with å¤§å° to make it more clear, as å§åęęē²ēå¤§å° or å§åę大å°ēęē²ē
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Oh, wow, thanks! Thatās certainly different from how I was interpreting it.
Do you think it would make sense to change the definition to āthumbnail-sized piecesā? (Leaving the current definition as an alt)
I think i found that word in a cooking book somewhere. Most of the words (if not all) are from my cooking books or recipes, so I just wrote it down like it said in the books.
I added more definitions to the āthumbnail-sized piecesā word now.
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Oh, nice! Thatās pretty cool these words are from actual source material
As an amusing aside, I recently changed the definition of ācorianderā to have ā(cilantro)ā after it, since thatās what itās called in America. I had heard of coriander but didnāt know or had forgotten that it was just cliantro. It sounded so exoticā¦ a little disappointing to find out itās just cilantro! XD
@sajiao, do you think it would be good to change the definition of ę°“å£¶ from āwater boilerā to ākettleā?
Hey @sajiao, sorry to bug you again, but I noticed that there are some basic characters that are in more than one level.
For example, é±¼ is in at least three different levels. I think this might have been intentional, because é±¼ is learned as a separate character before learning åø¦é±¼ and also as a separate character before čé±¼ćWas this something you did intentionally, or would it be okay to remove all but one of the places where é±¼ is learnt?
I encountered a couple of other characters where this was true, and Iām afraid I removed them before asking, sorry.
Hi @sajiao, just asking about something that I run into a fair amount while reviewing:
There are currently two different levels that teach the é ± character, and the characters have different definitions. One is in one of the last levels, and itās defined as āSauce (Jam, paste)ā. The other is somewhere earlier in the course, and itās defined as just āPasteā.
I could add alternatives for the two entries, but Iām thinking it might be better to just remove one of them. I donāt have strong feelings on this, though.
Thoughts?
Hey everyone,
Iāve made a mirror of this course that tests on English->Chinese instead of Chinese->English and Chinese->Pinyin, like this course does. The idea is that people could use both courses, so that they have all three testing directions covered. Iāve personally found testing on English->Chinese in addition to Chinese->English and Chinese->Pinyin to be helpful.
If youāre interested in the course, please check it out here.
@sajiao, would you mind if I added a level to the Kitchen Essentials course that contains a link to this companion course?
Thatās ok!
Regarding characters coming up several times;
The problem is that all the courses on Memrise (in the early days) used to have a āAuto-ignoreā function described here, where you could ignore all previously learned characters. I had this in mind when I created my courses, because it would auto-ignore all words you have already learned in this or any other previsously courses you were learning.
It is easier to learn a double-character word when you know what characters they are build up of, but when they arenāt auto-ignored any more I can see that it would be a problem. Frankly, I dont likee that they removed that function, because all their original HSK courses include all previously used characters and use this function extensively to help you remove the characters you know before learning the new course. I guess it used too much machine power to loop through all users and cross check every character in all their courses to see if they have been learned or not. So when the community grew so much I understand that they removed it.
Sorry for my late reply.