掲示板 Forums - Blended Vocabulary Vectors

Here's what they look like:

These new vectors, when used, each effectively collapses two vectors into one.

Consider the following two terms:

漢字

たくさん

With the current (non experimental) settings, if you have kanji > meaning and kana > meaning vectors on, you would get

漢字 - 2 vectors - kanji > meaning, kana > meaning

たくさん - 1 vector - kana > meaning

This is often not ideal, as most learners are happy with a single kanji > meaning vector for the term 漢字

However, if you have the following vector activated: kanji > meaning, you would get

漢字 - 2 vectors - kanji > meaning

たくさん - CANNOT BE STUDIED

Now, consider using the new vector: Kanji/kana > meaning. You would get

漢字 - 1 vector - kanji > meaning

たくさん - 1 vector - kana > meaning

In other words, this new vector will use kanji in the question if it is available, but otherwise will use kana.

This is a rather large change (internally), so please report any issues that you see come up - either with the quizzing, the lists of terms or numbers shown on the schedule summary, or anything else.

Do you mind tossing me a few quiz reports when that happens? It's the ? button at the top of the site/app, then go to "quiz report" in the panel that pops up.

You don't need to do it for *all* of them, just a few.

It is in the Help and Support - you should see a Contact Us button if you go there right now. If you, however, go there while in a quiz, there will be a new button next to it for reporting quizzing issues.

It does :). I haven't checked those reports yet, but I'll do so soon! Thank you :)

Found another problem but I can't be 100% sure is related to the experimental feature.
I've just added the word 岩場 to my Main Schedule, but it is not showing under "Unstudied terms", in fact the section is not even appearing.
Also the schedule is showing the same number for the total number of term in the schedule and the studied terms, which is 5316, but it is wrong because they should be different by 1.
Also in the video below I've opened both lists, and although 岩場 appears as part of the words in the schedule, it doesn't appear under "studied", so the "unstudied" list not appearing is a bug.

video

actually, a strangeness happened today but I "fixed" it myself before reporting it or reading this message.
Essentially I've added 告白 to my Main Schedule, and although the term wasn't Blocked, it got added to the "hidden terms" (first "bug") - it was the only term in that list.
I've clicked on the Hidden Terms list of the schedule, but it would bring up 0 term, giving the "red kao message" saying that no terms where in that list (second "bug")
So then I went in the dictionary, Blocked 告白 and then Un-Blocked it, which moved it into the "unstudied terms" list and fixed the problem
If if happens with another vocab, I'll let you know immediately :)

I've been exclusively doing the 'kana/kanji>meaning' vectors, but am now using both combined vectors. Is there a good way to set the ~5k 'new' terms to a higher mastery level so that I don't have to go through all the early stages?

I sent another report in, please don't mind that, everything works now. Turns out I accidentally switched the settings in quiz and it started showing kana again, now I think it only shows kanji where kanji should be, thank you!

Not sure if this is the intended behaviour, but the new vectors don't respect my global setting for how to view kanji I don't know.

If there are any unknown kanji in a term, they appear in kana instead of as a grey kanji with furigana like I've set. Is it just falling back to testing the kana vector instead of the kanji vector if I haven't studied the kanji yet? In which case, will learning that kanji later affect the mastery of terms that were already studied with the blended vector but were previously in kana?

Currently what I've been experiencing is for example with a term like 威力, I know the second kanji but not the first. In questions with the blended vectors it will appear as い力 instead of 威力 with furigana over the 威. It's consistent any time I get a term with unknown kanji in it, so I should be able to send in several reports when I do quizzes tomorrow.