i’m new in this website and was happy to finally find a good flashcards app to study japanese.
i’m not a beginner in this language and i thought that this course seems to be the best one to use with minna no nihongo. Minna no Nihongo Beginner I-II
anyway, i think that the problem that i have encountered doesn’t from the course itself but from the application
here is my problem:
as you can see, the answer excpected was みなさん even though the card provide also the real way of writing it in kanji 皆さん.
the creator of this course had to add another lesson (number 51) for the kanji learning.
So i think it’s just point to the weakness of this app (maybe, in fact i don’t know). Is that you can’t provide more than 1 answer by cards
P.S: that would be cool if we could press a button “next step” when we write the right answer because with the automatic next card, i have almost no time to read the kanji version of my answer.
Actually, I’m a bit surprised that this is the behavior. On the Chinese courses that I’m taking, if one types the pinyin when the system wants Chinese, it will tell you something along the lines of “I’m sorry, but you typed the pinyin instead of the Chinese”. Maybe this doesn’t work on the Android or iOS apps? (Are you using Android or iOS, by the way?)
Would you mind giving this a shot using the website and see if it marks the answer as being wrong, too?
Hello,
well on the PC it write "Sorry, you typed the Kanji when we wanted the Kana. Try again."
oh, i just notice that on iPhone there’s a quick message in orange that appear and say something like “almost correct”.
Well so the programmation work. But it’s not relevant.
i understand that there’s a kind of step by step learning. But why penalize an answer that is more correct than what is excpected?
it would make more sense to accept both writing if the answer is given in hiragana OR kanji when just hiragana is asked.
And accept only kanji when and not hiragana when kanji is asked.
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Also one last thing, the App should let you see the kanji when it require you to give the english anwer (by pressing a button “show kanji” or show it just under).
just to help the student to get used of the kanji writing. Which is at the end the final purpose anyway.
Actually i’m still hesitating between the app Anki and memrise. i like memrise but sadly there’s some inconvenience in memrise that doesn’t help the fast progression.
