September 20, 2022
I shared this site with the Gaginang discord server, and people had very nice things to say 😊 Not sure if anyone from there will be following my updates, but I'll try to keep updating frequently over the next month.
The big thing I worked on today was updating the Peng'im to show when a word has undergone tone change. It now displays the number in parentheses. I wrote a script to do this, so it was automated, and I did spot check a few examples, but I did not scrutinize every translation so hopefully it's all still accurate.
One other small change I made was that the category links on the English pages will now jump to that anchor for the category. So when you look at the word shirt for example, and you click on Clothing, it'll bring you to the Clothing section of the Miscellaneous category page.
And finally, more translations were added!
- bowl
- summer
- winter
- dry
- towel
- face towel
- to lose
- the same
- a little
- "I am washing dishes"
How do I decide what words or sentences to add? It's kind of random. I just have a large text file with lots of notes that has grown over time and I pick words I feel comfortable with.
September 19, 2022
I just finished up reorganizing my audio clips. They used to all be in a single folder, but now there are directories. Of course you shouldn't really notice a difference here, and if you do, it means I broke something.
As far as noticeable differences, when you view a word on the English page, you can now see (and click on) the category that it's in!
Words/sentences that I added:
- stove
- stairs
- 0
- "I'm thirty years old"
I did fix a few bugs that I found, and I probably introduced some more as well, but let's hope not.
September 18, 2022
Two updates in one day?! Well, the last update was really yesterday's, I just happened to publish it after midnight.
Just a few quick things today:
- I reordered the flashcard Word categories so Basics is at the top
- I renamed Phrases to Sentences because...I'm expecting to add some phrases to the "words" section later
- I added two sentences: "Do you have free time?" and "I'm busy"
September 18, 2022
I've reviewed all the words! Are there some audio clips that I think could be better? Yes, but I don't want to get too hung up on that.
I did some reorganizing too. There's a new flashcard category called Basics. These words used to be under Miscellaneous, but I think these deserve their own category. I also moved some of the miscellaneous words to other categories and created a Bathroom section in the Around the House words.
I've unhid a few words, and I also added the translation for "pee".
September 16, 2022
I said that I broke some of the Category pages in my last update. I forgot about one, the Miscellaneous category. That page was kind of a mess because I forgot how many categories I actually added and it was listing all of them. So I'm cleaning that up. I've clean up some of it, but I'm still going through it and reviewing the words.
I also made another bug fix. The Lessons were not displaying the Peng'im and audio clips correctly. I think I broke this a while ago, but I guess no one (including myself) really views it much.
I fixed some of the Chinese characters that I had for some words, and also provided alternate characters, like in the page for who.
Finally, I added a few translations:
- to look
- to taste (this word already existed, but I added another translation)
- free time
- busy