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
September 15, 2022
That subcategory stuff I added in the last update actually broke the Category page for Phrases, Clock Time, and Numbers. But I quickly fixed it, I hope 😅
I tried really hard to re-record the audio for "black pepper" and "umbrella" because they sound almost the same but have a subtle difference in ending, and I ultimately gave up. They just sound the same in my audio recordings. I did ask my grandma to say both words and I can totally hear the difference when she says it! But it's so hard to pronounce the words correctly myself.
I don't have any obvious updates today. I'm still reviewing the Food/Drink words and making little tweaks here and there.
September 14, 2022
I'm still going through each of the categories and reviewing the translations. Today I realized that I'm really bad at distinguishing between a "io" and a "ia" sound. Like I don't make them sound different at all. I'm not going to worry about it too much 🙃
I've rerecorded some audio clips and made small changes to the database, but the one big change I added was the the Food/Drink category now has subcategories!
September 13, 2022
I'm not sure if people are aware that you can search a single Chinese character to see other words containing that character, but I made a slight tweak to that page. Now the "Words containing" table will be ordered to show the words that have only that character first. See the page for 红 for an example.
I also added some more words to the database:
- bone
- fast
- dark/late
- tonight
- day time
- afternoon (re-added)
- night (re-added)
And finally, I made a few Chinese character fixes:
- fixed the first character for "me6 ja2" (morning) because it had the wrong one
- added the missing Chinese character for "puang5" in "ka1 puang5" (body pillow)
- added the missing Chinese character for "jang5" in "jang7 ek8" (to shower)
September 11, 2022
So, that feature that I added last week where I was distinguishing between different dialects for some of the translations? I removed that. 😅 I realized that I don't really know the specifics of the different dialects, but I do know that there are some words that people pronounce slightly differently. So for those, if I have multiple accents recorded, I'll include them on the English page for a word. (See today for an example)
I kept going back and forth between using "yik" or "yek" for day. I think I'm convinced that my family doesn't actually consistently say one or the other pronunciation. So...you might see both versions scattered throughout the site.
Also, this required a non-trivial amount of restructuring the database and refactoring the code. 😬
I think I'm finally done reviewing the Date/Time words. The words for today, yesterday, and tomorrow are so confusing. I wasn't totally sure on the tones, and I also wasn't sure what pronunciations made sense given different accents. But I've added all the translations that I've heard of from other people, and I've also re-recorded a bunch of words.
Lastly, I added two words, "day after tomorrow" and "Cambodia"!
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