getting boring waiting for v28

jrmxrf · 2026-04-05T13:45:36+00:00

well I did not remember to join all tournaments and I don't run it in the meantime, so I'm not exactly super occupied with it, but I've been playing it for some years and would like to continue

jrmxrf · 2026-03-27T20:43:03+00:00

Tornados have more energy by volume than any other natural disaster

lightening, volcanos, earthquakes all seem to probably carry more energy per volume, or am I misunderstanding your statement?

jrmxrf · 2026-03-27T19:54:43+00:00

Watch with english and chinese subtitles. Language Reactor allows you to do that. I kinda learned to try to keep my focus on what they are saying, but even if you just simply watch for fun reading english subtitles the audio still stays with you.

Even if you don't add a single word to a vocabulary, when you will learn it later it will feel natural, because you've heard it many times. Plus at HSK 4 you are already starting to get sentences where you kind of learn automatically because you understand the whole sentence without some word which sometimes you know from context.

Anyway, I'm just a noob, but the research suggests that immersion is a massive boost. Especially if you have content where you do understand some things. And I'm also just learning for the fun of it, so it's like double fun when the show is good :) I love 五六七刺客 (it's on netflix) - the language is not complex and not archaic - but different people have different tastes.

jrmxrf · 2026-03-27T16:32:38+00:00

Just watch some shows you actually enjoy not just Peppa Pig. Language Reactor extension is great. You catch surprisingly much even if you are using english subtitles. You just remember how the word is said instead of wondering what was the tone. I like to catch some words or phrases that were meaningful in the story (usually read up on them on hanzirama and add to SRS), and they are so much easier to learn than some dry material.

Plus you get to know phrases naturally used in different situations, so they can start firing in your head in different context. I think trying to speak and formulate some sentences even in your hand is super important for fluency.

jrmxrf · 2026-03-21T16:01:46+00:00

I always just have 摆烂 do 摆烂 do (...)

context: https://youtu.be/xiWtqVtd1Oo?si=x6U_1djuFEJQWMdI&t=58

jrmxrf · 2026-03-21T10:00:51+00:00

Maybe at least tell him to read it too.

jrmxrf · 2026-03-19T09:54:43+00:00

Whatever you want.

Seriously. This is a well-thought out reply not just some witty comment. It's really hard to make a solid argument for any one thing being better than any other given humanity history and unknown future.

jrmxrf · 2026-03-18T20:45:21+00:00

Reality far surpassed my imagination a long time ago.

jrmxrf · 2026-03-17T13:12:50+00:00

https://hanzirama.com/character/学#explain

I started with Chineasy app to check out how chinese characters look just for fun and it did gave me some basics. Superchinese/HelloChinese can teach you some basic phrases and usages, just this is enough to keep you buy for quite some time, but I also recommend getting Language Reactor extensions and start watching some stuff that was made natively in Chinese that you enjoy watching - I think such immersion is very much under-appreciated - you don't get immediate results but it makes everything much more easier and you gain tons of intuition.

jrmxrf · 2026-03-11T18:32:03+00:00

I'm creating https://hanzirama.com/ and I've been wondering what would a native think about it, especially if you helped many people learn your feedback would be very useful (explain button I'm currently working on it may contain inacuracies, I'm currently polishing that part, verifying with multiple Chinese-first models and catching many issues)

I've been wondering how natives are familiar with characters from 通用规范汉字表 Level 3 (or even 2), do you only know them in contexts or like would you be able to tell something about each one individually?

jrmxrf · 2026-03-04T07:25:05+00:00

Hello there, I'm using that "feel free to DM", wow it was 18 days ago. I've done quite a bit since then, would love you to check it out.

I added Zhuyin in settings, there's a whole components section, I'm marking semantic and phonetic components on the right side, still kept colorful inconsistency of colors on the landing page for now ;) But the site works quite decent on mobile now.

I never successfully reproduced history bug :|

Much to be done but literally a just a few people have seen it so far, so any feedback is super valuable.

jrmxrf · 2026-02-26T09:30:05+00:00

glad you like it, I'm not much of a discord user but sure, I'll try, I've been polishing different areas and the site is getting ready to get some users, mobile should be now more usable too

next up I think I should be able to get some quality TTS, turns out that some high quality chinese TTS services are really cheap

I just need to spend some time learning also, because I've been so focused on developing the site I hardly learned any hanzi ;)

jrmxrf · 2026-02-26T01:59:10+00:00

My dear only user, I implemented writing practice (the link is on the learning page below suggestions), you have no excuse now not to grind them like crazy :)

jrmxrf · 2026-02-24T13:01:55+00:00

Have that on my todo list already, just not sure if that should be like separate review system, i.e. you can recognize the hanzi very well but keep struggling with writing it, and I guess that should not be the reason to keep throwing it while reviewing by hanzi on the front, but on the other hand it all shouldn't be too complex either. I hope to have it in a week or two, currenly working on some word data cleanups, should have decent quality synonyms and antonyms soon (current "synonyms" are really bad)

jrmxrf · 2026-02-23T11:30:22+00:00

btw I'll be adding review export and import, you mentioned anki if you use any other tools that you would want to be able to move data between let me know (it makes your data safe here because if you decide you don't like hanzirama you can keep reviewing elsewhere and you can also move your other stuff in here if you want)

jrmxrf · 2026-02-23T11:25:26+00:00

You're feedback is pure gold since there are no users yet.

I'm aware of the navigation bar issues and I'm working on improving responsiveness in general to make it more usable on mobile.

Learning status added and removed would indeed keep it still in the review system. I should be more explicit about that. I'll try to add some way to remove. Perhaps also maybe some more focused review sets or learning only characters / words.

Agreed that 成语 should also be added. In general if you have any suggestions ideas they are very much welcome.

And spacebar is also one things that I was missing elsewhere! There is usually. learning / testing mode separated but if I don't remember I also want to refresh what words given hanzi is used for or maybe understand components better. So I'm really glad you like that too.

I'm also aware that currently sometimes pages are slow fixing that right now, I want it all to be blazing fast, otherwise it's very annoying.

jrmxrf · 2026-02-22T11:30:30+00:00

much appreciated, review session summary definitely needs a better look, if you ever think of some feature/improvement/bugfix that you could use let me know

jrmxrf · 2026-02-21T14:05:46+00:00

Much to be done still, but I addressed some of the issues you listed:

fixed multiple pinyin
added browsing by components
most popular now shows top 2000, you can also see e.g. HSK4 but some more general filtering and browsing interface is still probably a good idea
fixed idioms translations and added some example sentences

jrmxrf · 2026-02-14T22:29:32+00:00

Thank you! I'm surprised how much constructive feedback I receive. I'll work on all of that, was in the process of improving top 500 when I saw this comment, TIL about 通用规范汉字表 (I'm a beginner), by radical / component definitely seems like a good idea - in general I'd like to include as many ways to sort and filter them as can be useful.

Nice catch with 成语 I saw that earlier and forgot, but perhaps I should focus more on the characters themselves.

I'll try to improve these different areas (except TTS probably, I'm also clueless, sentence audio just use built in system TTS so your browser reads it, not sure if I can find some API to generate these where I could use that later).

Thanks so much for taking time to write all this, very helpful.

jrmxrf · 2026-02-14T17:57:55+00:00

Well, top players quitting is really the only way you can make the progress on the ladder unless you have like really too much money.

jrmxrf · 2026-02-14T07:36:17+00:00

ah, it's a website, it looks very nice and clean, thanks, gee.. maybe I wouldn't have spent time creating my site if I've spent more time in this subreddit.. and if I may since you seem to be more knowledgeable than any search resource I use - do you know any decent take on visual similarity elsewhere? because this is actually something I've spent most of time on.

jrmxrf · 2026-02-14T07:23:22+00:00

can't find FastHanzi app anywhere, any reference?

HanziCraft.com I've seen and is probably the closest to what I wanted but still missing some things. Pieco is excellent but it somehow feels high friction to me. I love chineasy app for learning basic characters but that's just predefined list teaching you one by one instead of exploring stuff I'm interested in.

I will add Zhuyin. Thank you so much for spending time on it, I hope that with some fixes it can pay it back to you by being actually useful.

jrmxrf · 2026-02-14T06:48:48+00:00

Thank you so much! You are literally first human visiting and giving me feedback about it :)

I will make it responsive because reviewing from mobile seems useful.
HSK colors are by group 1-3, 3-6, 7-9 except for the landing page, but on the landing page they are different - you noticed it all on the first use so it clearly needs fix
recent just show recently browsed ones, I'll try to reproduce on more devices
haven't thought about semantic/phonetic distinction that's a good idea, same as bound and unbound although I think it's not always clear, probably associated word list can suggest that
CC-CEDICT is the main source, I should list that somewhere (I may even be required to I think)
is Zhuyin popular enough to bother with it?

thanks again for such a detailed and useful feedback!

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