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That’s good to know! Thanks for checking that out! It’s nice to not have to have study sessions restricted to areas where I can access the internet even if the whole syncing thing can be a bit awkward.
I saw this thread a while ago and decided to give iKnow a try. I’ve been at it for about a month now and I can’t say I regret the choice! I actually kind of look forward to doing iKnow reviews each day, though it’s having the unfortunate side effect of making Anki feel more tedious by comparison. I feel like I’m really dragging my feet to get through my Anki reviews every day (ultimate vocab decks + kanji).
I started using the syncing thing with Anki because I had to go on some long drives that would have me away from my main computer the whole day, so I did that, synced everything to my laptop and now I’m having problems where probably only 10% of the audio ever plays on either computer…! Not so good for those “What is this word [that was just spoken] in English?” cards.
I guess I’ll be getting a smartphone soon and I’ve definitely been wanting to use it to help me keep up the Japanese studies when I’m out and about, so I’ve been curious about the iKnow app and whether or not it would be usable offline. I take it from what クリス said about Anki being nice because it’s usable offline, that’s a no? Maybe that won’t be so terrible for me if the school I’ll be spending much of my time at has WiFi anyway.
Welcome to TextFugu! Haha, I’m also from BC! I’m in the Okanagan right now, but I’ll be moving to Vancouver soon.
Good luck with your studies! I hope it turns out to be a lot of fun for you~
Thanks, Hashi.
I just had a look at TextFugu with Chrome on my Windows 7 netbook, and all seems to work fine there. Maybe I’ll have to try and find some solution of my own to fix my problems with my Windows Vista SP2 + Chrome combination…!
I like it when websites change! I’m excited to explore all the new stuff you guys have been working on and adding to the site! I’m already enjoying the little things like those icons at the top right and their fancy fade-in, fade-out tooltip-type things. I’m certainly amongst the group of people who have been having difficulty remembering kanji-related vocab, so I’m excited about the improvements in that area.
Sadly, I’m having Chrome-based problems where I can’t seem to see the majority of the Japanese text on this site anymore. It just… doesn’t show up. Screenshot of what I mean: http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp49/Sabredragogashi/Privateish/nojapaneseforme.jpg
Apparently I can highlight and right click things and see a bit of text in the ‘Search Google for ___’ bit.It all shows up fine in Firefox and IE, but Chrome doesn’t want to cooperate which is sort of odd because it worked before. After I noticed that though, I did some Google searching and found out that Chrome just plain doesn’t display kanji reliably – it’ll show Traditional Chinese characters instead of the Japanese kanji. I know I was kind of surprised when the genius kanji (which looked like the katakana character オ on TextFugu) looked a bit different when it showed up in Anki. A bit confusing, but I got past that. I think I’ll be switching to Firefox for my Japanese studies from now on though so I don’t accidentally teach myself Traditional Chinese characters instead of proper Japanese. (Why, Chrome, why? 8|)
I wonder if maybe it would be appropriate to warn people somewhere that, depending on which browser they’re using, they may be seeing the wrong characters… The characters displayed in this chart show up differently between Chrome, Firefox, and IE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Examples_of_language_dependent_characters
After comparing them, I’m guessing Firefox’s character rendering is the most accurate there.
Bff, SORRY FOR THE RAMBLE. Maybe you’ve heard all this before, but it just came up and blew my mind and I felt like I had to talk about it, haha.
But yep, I’ve been waiting excitedly all day to see what sorts of wonders awaited me on TextFugu and nothing’s made me feel the want to tear my hair out yet! Well I mean, aside from Chrome having character-displaying bugs that have apparently been reported for years and aren’t fixed yet. But that’s not your fault. :c
