Coming soon:
Multiple choice quizzing in other languages won't choose entries without a definition
Help screens
Intelligent entry system which asks you a question that the dictionary doesn't know (i.e. What is あめ in Korean?) to help fill out the DB
High score lists for multiple choice and other types of quiz
More quiz types
Spaced Repetition Flashcards
School, Course, and Textbook Vocabulary Tracking!
Bunshou Analysis!
Implemented since last update:
-- Help screens.
-- Spaced Repetition Flashcards. (<--- major feature)
-- Lesson tracking (School, Course, and textbook...) via the Tag Tree system.
-- Flashcard creator (drag 'n drop, compatable with ios 7 and android)
Other developments:
-- The database has been rewritten from scratch twice now, and is now a superset of JMDictDB functionality with modifications for multilanguage headwords.
-- When searching in Japanese, entries are imported on-the-fly from JMdict XML.
-- The database developments were the major hurdle, and is 90% of what I have been working on for the last several months.
I expect development to be coming along a /lot/ quicker, now that the db stuff is done. It took a lot of meditation to chew through the db stuff, tying xquery to sql and reimplementing JMdictDB from scratch. All that's left are number of re-integrations to get the new database hooked back up to the flashcard creator and stuff like that, and maybe implement some of the (extremely powerful) features of having full JMdict data. But these are all trivial, variable-renaming tasks. I am 350% satisfied with the database system now. I feel free, this is an amazing feeling, and what I learned working on the drag 'n drop Flashcard Editor gave me a billion ideas.
Once a small amount of re-integration work is completed, likely by the end of next week, I feel Beta-1 will be complete and I will move to phase 2 (Beta-2). Stuff to look forward to in Beta-2:
-- Flashcard browser (Flashcard library system / deck editor for users)
-- Reintegrate SRS flashcards and SRS multiple choice flashcard games
-- Reintegrate user profile control panel
-- Create a system for users to add data and for editorial review of the database data (the security side of things has already been coded, we need an approval system, an incoming-changes table, essentially)
-- Lesson trail system with flashcard and activity packs
-- New games: Memory Game, Re-arrange the sentences game, maybe a few other study games featuring touchscreen technology
I've decided to hold back on the example sentences system & fill-in-the-blanks tests, as well as the bunshou (short composition) analyzer, bunshou library and cloze test generators until Beta-3.
IRL developments:
-- Stuff IRL always happens so slowly :/
-- Work on MCI Japanese has been going well, we have almost as much data collected as we do for the MCI Chinese project -- about 50 children's books.
-- We have signed two Japanese teachers who work for Japanese cram schools in the area to do audio.
-- in contact with a major japanese langauge learning website, we may be able to work together on a few projects.
-- In contact with someone who runs a video teaching site (for an English cram school) and several English cram schools and highschools in the area.
-- In contact with several local highschool students, whose manga skills are somewhat polished -- for artwork for the books and the site
-- I will be taking my JLPT N4 next year.
This is going to rule, man. This is totally going to rock. This website has been one of my dreams for years.
p.s. lifetime accounts have been extended until the end of june, please post your requests to me here or in PM.
