Yesterday/way early this morning was quite frustrating. It was quite easy to describe what I wanted to build: Japanese Vocab Quiz should track wrong answers so that users can review at the end of a quiz to see what words gave them the most trouble. As is, the thought is that users could look at the list and see if the word is still really hard to remember and if so, go look up additional information on it or build flashcards, or just whatever they need to make it sticky for them.

Japanese Vocab Quiz now has the vocabulary and kanji readings from Chapter 3. For me personally, this will be the first chapter where I get to test how well the site works for teaching brand new vocab (as opposed to my getting accidentally exposed to it as I was building/testing the site). In general, I tend to think that nothing would come close to someone sitting down and making their own flash cards (whether physical or in Anki or similar software), and finding their own personal connection/examples/representative images for a word or concept.

how to use もう and まだ もう and まだ have a bunch of different English translations, but it’s fairly straightforward in Japanese: use もう when something has changed use まだ when something has NOT changed Though I’ve highlighted the equivalent English words below, I would recommend NOT memorizing the English translations of もう and まだ and instead ask yourself: has this situation changed? If it has, use もう.