October 18, 2022

I'm still here! I've just been trying to relax a little more since my sabbatical is nearing to and end. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to update the site once I have to start working a full time job again, but we'll see.

I've been tweaking how the compound word breakdowns are displayed. It was looking kinda bad on mobile, but it might be a little better now.

New translations:

  • kitchen
  • living room
  • crispy
  • brown
  • question
  • midnight

October 13, 2022

This was one of those days where I started out doing one small thing, and then ended up down a long rabbit hole. I was researching the word 内 (lai6), and then before you know it, I've restructured the database again 😬. But the page for house now has more information on it!

New translations:

  • to cook
  • jicama
  • hour
  • minute
  • inside

October 12, 2022

I have a big feature in the works. For some "compound" words, you can now see a breakdown of what each character means. Look at the page for hello or pink for a couple of examples! I did manually add these to the database, so it's going to be a long, kind of slow project to actually fill in this information for more words.

New translations:

  • raw
  • breakfast
  • evening
  • early
  • noon

October 10, 2022

I have just about two weeks left in my sabbatical, and I'm trying to make sure I have everything sorted out so the updates are slowing down a bit. The one big change I added was that a translation will be shown directly if you search a word that's designated as a synonym of another word. So trying to translate "hi" will take you directly to the page for "hello" instead of showing search options.

New translations:

  • straight
  • don't need to
  • to open, to turn on
  • to bite
  • to rise
  • fruit
  • You don't have to turn on the AC

October 7, 2022

A bunch of little things today...

I had this crazy bug where all of the translations would show up if you searched the word "0". But that's fixed now. I also fixed a bug that would result in duplicate words showing up when you searched.

I also added a new feature--you can now search using traditional characters!

And I updated the UI a little. If you're looking at the site on desktop or with a larger viewport, the tables won't take up the full width of the page.

And finally, I have some content updates. I created a new category for "Linking/Transitive Verbs", and moved some of the words that were under "Basics" to it. (Yeah, I googled "types of verbs" and I'm not even sure I fully understand it all) I also added these translations:

  • box
  • bag
  • completed
  • to take
  • Eat all of it
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