June 24, 2025
Some number of updates ago, I talked about how I had to add another font to the site just to display the character for ghao5 (smart). Well, today I wanted to add another character, and that extra font that I added didn't have a glyph for it! So, I decided to change my approach here, and I downloaded FontForge and learned how to make my own custom font. Sort of. I don't really know what I'm doing, but now you can see the custom characters in both ghao5 and na7 (to be at).
I'm also cleaning up some of the extra notes I display as a part of working on the feature to show traditional characters.
Finally, here are the new translations I added:
- east
- west
- south
- north
- Asia
I also added more translations for "kitchen" and "Southeast Asia"! A while back someone had complained about my translation for it, and I've finally added a more literal one.
June 19, 2025
I have a really exciting update in progress! I'm currently in the process of making it possible to view traditional characters on the site, rather than simplified. That's going to take a while to completely implement, so I've got it in another branch, and if you're really curious you can see what I've done so far on github.
In the meantime, I've added some more words:
- cloudy
- to cover
- weekend
- dangerous
- to decorate
And I've also added two words for toilet! I went down a rabbit hole on the different ways that people say toilet (and restroom), and I'm lumping them all under the same entry for now because it seems kind of interchangeable.
June 17, 2025
I added a few more translations today:- butterfly
- blood
- a short while
- to drink
- to sip soup
- to stack things
- cloudy
I've been trying to watch youtube videos of people speaking Teochew to see how much I can understand. So far, I can only really understand them when there are English subtitles! But I'm picking up words here and there, and hopefully I will keep understanding more as I learn more words!
June 16, 2025
I've done a little bit of tweaking to some of the flashcards to show a little more information, so hopefully it's easier to understand what word the flashcard is asking about.
Apart from that, here are the translations that have been added since the last update:
- pasta
- humid
- peanut
- mung bean
- monkey
June 15, 2025
More translations!
- like (similar to)
- to return
- to go back home
- dried fish
- happy
- bottom
- purse
- particle that follows a negative statement