March 18, 2018
I officially have sound clips now! (On five words only. See if you can find them.) Hopefully my pronunciation isn't awful. I still have to find a decent audio recording software. Using a chromebook seriously limits my options though.
Other changes:
- The translate feature is now case insensitive.
- The translate page has a new format.
- I had to fix the translation for one of the "uncle" and "aunt" words.
- More words and more chinese characters were added.
There are a few words I'm having trouble finding what the "correct" chinese character is. Looking up the character for "orange" came up with a character that has completely different pronunciation that I'm used to. I also had trouble with the word "wife".
March 17, 2018
I changed a lot of things in this last update, including restructuring the database, so hopefully I didn't break anything. I also added a bunch of Chinese characters. (I lied in the last update. I went with Simplified) Still a lot more to add though.
I also added a new feature! You can translate words now. I'm referring to my transliteration as Peng'im even though it's not official Peng'im. I'm hoping to add more details to the translations in the future.
Finally, I made the top navigation all bootstrap-py. I'm not really a huge fan of the color scheme, so I'll need to figure out how to customize the bootstrap theme.
March 13, 2018
More words! They're scattered in the Miscellaneous section for now.
I decided to try and add some Chinese characters to the flashcards as well, so you might spot some. They will be slowly added to all of the existing words over time. I realized that I run into the issue of Traditional vs. Simplified when adding these characters. Right now I'm sticking with traditional characters because Teochew is a more traditional language, and I figured if you learn the traditional character it's easier to recognize the simplified character. Of course then I run into a weird character that seems to have more than two forms and I get really confused.
I also made some UI changes so it looks a little better on mobile devices. Previously, if the word on the flashcard was very long, it would stretch the page, but now it should wrap properly.
March 11, 2018
I spent way too long trying to figure out how to say "evening" and "tomorrow" and I think the differences I'm seeing are just from people with different accents.
I've added all the days of the week and the months as well as a few other miscellaneous words. Since I have so many words relating to dates and times, I created a new category just for those and renamed the Time category to Clock Time.
March 10, 2018
Hello world! This is my first update.
After being away for a week, I can finally get back to this project. I added Time flashcards. Because it's rare to hear people refer to time using the exact number of minutes, I've limited the minutes to only multiples of 5.
Other small changes:
- The Numbers are split up so you can limit them to less than 100.
- Random was renamed to All to better indicate that it's all the categories.
- Miscellaneous was added for any words that don't fit into any of the other categories.
Every single resource that I'm using for learning Teochew has a different word for "evening", so I'm still trying to sort out the differences between those.
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