September 24, 2022
I did a little bit of reorganizing the categories. I moved "Animals" and "Outside" to their own section called Nature. I also renamed the "School" category to School/Work and added the translation for "to work a job".
I've also recorded a few more audio clips, just for completeness. I have recordings for the alternate pronunciations of the numbers 1 and 2.
Finally, I added one more sentence: "I have to brush my teeth". Yesterday I was reading up on the different uses of the word 着 dioh8. There are a lot of them! I've only added two of them to the site: "must" and "then". I don't think these work well as standalone word flashcards, so they're hidden from that, but I'll try to add more sentences that use it.
September 23, 2022
I refactored the code, I fixed a few bugs, and I added two more words to the database, "rabbit" and "to wait".
I've really got to stop refactoring the code so much though. Hopefully next update will just have more translations.
September 22, 2022
I had this idea to hide certain translations from the Flashcards UI. The word fast has two translations, but one of them is just the same word repeated. I feel like having too many translations on a flashcard feels cluttered, so I wanted to clean it up a little. I'm not sure if it was worth it to restructure the database, but we'll see.
New translations:
- squirrel (requested by my aunt)
- to brush teeth
- toothbrush
- toothpaste
September 21, 2022
The code is now on github! I actually did some cleaning up and created a brand new repository for this. I wanted to clean up more, but if I didn't post this until I was satisfied, it would never be public. I have so so many things I want to add to this site and I've just kept it in a giant text file. Maybe I'll actually utilize github's Issues feature now.
I realized I needed to update my code to display tone change for the sentences, clock time, and numbers, so I added that.
New translations added:
- wristwatch
- bracelet
- ring
- dress
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.
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