September 10, 2020

September 09, 2020 - Patch Notes

Hey everyone,

While the devs are working on their updates, we have content some fresh content fixes here.

Content

Typos / content fixes

  • Spacing of furigana on 防腐剤 fixed on 腐 kanji flashcard onyomi example sentence.
  • Capitalized the keyword "I" on 私 kanji flashcard.
  • Added a missing translation in the first sentence of "A conversation between a couple." in Unit 100.
  • Fixed misaligned highlighting in "Intro to 四字熟語" lesson sentence.
  • Fixed incorrect furigana on 次 kanji flashcard's onyomi example sentence. B組 should be ビーぐみ, not くみ.
  • Fixed incorrect furigana on 押 kanji flashcard's onyomi example sentence. 200キロ is now にひゃっキロ, was にひゃくキロ.
  • Fixed a literal for した in a "Plain verb forms review" lesson sentence. Was "was doing" and is now "did".
  • Fixed some odd spacing issues in "How to say "I think that…" lesson
  • Made な and の into their own separate literals in the "Forming nouns with の" lesson instead of combining them.
  • Set 鳥 kanji flashcard kunyomi sentence to properly use 鳥肌, which the example word was set to.
  • Fixed a missing space between じょ and "jo" in the "How to ask “Are you OK?"" lesson.
  • Fixed some missing furigana on 美味しい and美味い in the "Making 2-word sentences" lesson.
  • Added a missing Identifier highlight to "The particles や and とか" lesson.
  • Fixed incorrect furigana and added some missing furigana in the "What if I'm not a beginner?" Using NativShark article.

New explanations

  • Added an In-Depth Box near the end of the "相槌 and other speaking customs" lesson which talks about how ちっ is known as 舌打ち and that you can use it by itself, not just as a part of a sentence.

Sept 8 fixes

Content

Typos / content fixes

  • Fixed furigana over 図1 on the 並 kanji flashcard example sentence.
  • Fixed some missing and incorrect furigana in 焼 kanji flashcard onyomi example.
  • 訳 kanji flashcard kunyomi example sentence now matches the kunyomi example word.
  • Fixed odd spacing on furigana for 一台 in 馬 kanji flashcard onyomi example sentence
  • Fixed a typo in a header in "Take the t's one at a time (Stem Changes, Part 6)" lesson.
  • Fixed odd spacing on 新年会 furigana. Applies to all places 新年会 appears on the site (lesson and vocab flashcard, etc.).
  • Fixed two typos in the English explanations of "Japanese verb types" lesson.

New explanations

  • Changed positioning of a Writer's Note that says to not bother memorizing stem changes quite yet in "Verb stem changes" lesson. It's a little earlier so it can be seen before people start trying to do so :shark_laugh:

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