I built this tool to learn the japanese alphabet, what do you think?

http://youpinadi.github.com/jlearn/

by Youpinadi • 14 years ago

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Youpinadi4• 14 years ago

I build it in order to learn angularjs and i'm pretty please with it. The js is about 100 lines, the html 37 lines, and the css 160 lines.

viseztrance• 14 years ago

Very nice. It feels so fast compared to other server-side solutions. You should definitely extend it for katakana as well.

Youpinadi4• 14 years ago

I'm glad you like it! Actually I can extend it to pretty anything, from katakana to learning capitals or even words of any language. Here is how the dictionary works (for the moment): http://youpinadi.github.com/jlearn/js/hiragana.js If i get some pull requests with other cards deck, i would be glad to integrate them in the interface!

yifanlu• 14 years ago

> You were wrong! Answer for よ was: re

I'm just taking japanese for the first time, but I swear it's "yo".

maytc• 14 years ago

just got that too...

Youpinadi4• 14 years ago

Thanks for you feedback! It's fixed!

snogglethorpe• 14 years ago

+ As already mentioned, there's a bug (よ should be "yo", tool says "re")

+ I think it would be good to allow alternative transliterations. E.g., "tu" for つ, "si" for し, "ti" for ち, etc.

+ It would be good to support composite/modified characters as well, stuff like しょ ("sho"), ちゅ ("chu"), じ ("ji"), じゅ ("ju"), が ("ga"), ぱ ("pa"), etc, etc, etc.

koopajah• 14 years ago

That's pretty awesome! Wish I had this when learning the hiragana/katakana!

Two remarks : it would be nice for the divs not to move while using it. I'm not sure why but when trying to keep up the pace I was always distracted by something moving on the page. I think it is beacause your divs below with % of appearance/success was moving everything when going from a 1 digit % to a two digits?

Also, when seeing an hiragana and thinking it is a one letter such as "u" instead of "mi" the system does not really detect my "u" as wrong because it only has one character and expects two. So I can change my answer and get the correct one.

Youpinadi4• 14 years ago

Thank you for your remarks, i just added a live check feature as your proposed. I'll also try to have an interface that doesn't move all the time!

I built this tool to learn the japanese alphabet, what do you think?

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