August 25, 2020

August 24, 2020 - Patch Notes

Hi everyone :shark_wave:

Today we have a lot of content fixes for you! On the development side, things are going smoothly with the audio rewrite and we can't wait to get that out to everyone (especially since it'll close a lot of bug reports 😉)

System

General

  • Account deletion is now working as intended - we appreciate everyone's patience while we resolved the issues.Streaks
  • Attempted to normalize all streaks across the site. If your streak is still wrong, reach out to support and we will manually adjust the remaining ones to be correct.
  • Updated the code which increments user streaks to attempt to resolve issues where streaks would not change overnight.

Note that streaks will only change once every 24 hours, so if you change your reset time to be earlier than it normally is, your streak will lag a day behind.Progression

  • Fixed an issue in Unit 79 where users were getting stuck while learning vocabulary. This was caused by a duplicate flashcard being added that already appeared earlier in the system. As a result of this fix, any users past that unit will receive a new vocabulary flashcard that they must do to advance.

Content

  • Added a note to Unit 117 dialogue to clarify potential confusion regarding the use of な after する.
  • 椅子を買った。 was incorrectly marked as "Textbook Formal." Changed to "Textbook Casual."
  • Fixed missing audio in "How to ask for help (e.g. lifting a heavy suitcase)" lesson, on すみません。 sentence.
  • Removed a sentence mentioning a touch screen on public phones in "How to say "Please call the police [an ambulance, etc.]" lesson.
  • Renamed male speaker in "Discussing what to do for dinner." dialogue to be a more common name.
  • Changed meaning of 杯 from "cupful" to "cup" in an explanation in "How to say 'Cheers!'" lesson.
  • Removed a sentence about intonation for いえ in "How to say 'no'" lesson.
  • お now properly shows in the literal of お弁当温めますか?
  • 様 now properly shows in literals for いらっしゃいませ、二名様ですか? and 何名様ですか? (Also fixed furigana for the latter sentence. The change caused it to default to よう. :shark_sumimasen: )
  • Literals for 綺麗 in "A parent and child are viewing the cherry blossoms." dialogue were "clean," fixed to be "pretty."
  • Fixed wrong furigana on an example sentence on the 足 kanji flashcard. Was じゅうふん for 十分(じゅっぷん).
  • Changed 来 kanji flashcard example kunyomi sentence. It was using 出来る instead of 来る.
  • Added missing audio the sentence "アラスカってカナダだと思ってた。"
  • Added a Deep Look box that quickly explores the differences of 美味しい (おいしい) and 美味い (うまい) in the "Making 2-word sentences" lesson.
  • Fixed incorrect furigana on 間 (あいだ) in the 見える vocab card.
  • Fixed a word that was missing the subtext color in "Vた:Plain past tense" lesson.
  • Fixed grammatical error in English explanation in "How to offer your seat to people on the train" lesson.
  • Added some words to an English explanation in order to connect to the example Japanese sentence better in "て-form of na-adjectives" lesson.
  • 浮気者 was being improperly read as うわきしゃ instead of うわきもの. Fixed in all places. (vocab card, kanji flashcard)

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