#WANIKANI ADD SYNONYM HOW TO#
#WANIKANI ADD SYNONYM INSTALL#

#WANIKANI ADD SYNONYM HOW TO#

So a lot of intentionally omitted synonyms are just because they’re (English) homonyms that mean something else in a completely different context, which won’t be a problem once you’re a little bit used to the kanji/vocab (alo gives a good example of this). Hey hey I’ve run into a frustration with the kanji meanings and vocabulary meanings, and looking for different perspectives on how to improve my accuracy without inadvertently hampering understanding. Especially given the pointlessly frustrating way you’re forced to add synonyms during reviews. Wanikani’s own definitions have to more stringent, since they’re teaching strangers and don’t want to ever accidentally mislead. So personally I don’t think they need to perfect, they just need to be in the ballpark and memorable enough to get the job done. The Problem The current process for adding multiple synonyms to an item is very tedious: Click add synonym. They’ll fade away anyway over time as seeing and using the word replace the artificial connection with natural ones. I think the situation where you would a) add a misleading synonym, b) forget the associations from the original lesson entirely, and c) not recover from the mistake after seeing the item in context, has to be very rare.Īll of the English SRS words are glosses to one degree or another, so none of them are going to be 100% right.

I didn’t really check mine at all to be honest…

It makes no sense when you review this radical that this is suddenly duck, when later on you learn something that has absolutely nothing to do with ducks, birds. The new button is twice as large which stands out, when you put an synonym in it goes beneath them and makes a larger gap between the meanings and the word type, and the new input box is also a bit over the top. Add your public WaniKani API key, which can be found on on the WaniKani website, and hit save. Synonym feature changes stick out too much.

#WANIKANI ADD SYNONYM INSTALL#

To get started, install the extension, and go to the options page. It is a great utility for practicing and recalling vocabulary you may have forgotten. What do you guys do to verify an added synonym before you throw it onto the card? Just came across the radical called duck in a review, and I flunked, because I had got used to the kanji family name. Wanikanify can find word anywhere on a webpage and replace it for kanji characters. The black list is designed to prevent this right? Like they’re adding meanings that shouldn’t be accepted no mater what, right? My process to verify synonyms is to study the japanese meaning of the word via weeblio, check the meaning on jisho and then add it.

I am more so worried that in the back of my head I know that wanikani could have excluded the synonym i’m adding for a reason… So i get this mounding anxiety that I’m possibly adding meanings that shouldn’t be there. This does not bother me in the slightest. to be clear: i have no problem failing the card, adding a synonym and getting more practice. In several circumstances, I miss cards for putting in a meaning that is an alternate meaning that wanikani does not have but I know from other texts/immersion/weeblio etc. However make sure that slight differences between two English terms translate over to your language before you generalise a meaning of two learning items.Hey hey! I’ve run into a frustration with the kanji meanings and vocabulary meanings, and looking for different perspectives on how to improve my accuracy without inadvertently hampering understanding. You can also add synonyms during your reviews. Go to the item’s page, click add, and type whatever you want. I think it is perfectly fine to do this, since it is more important to associate the correct concept with the learning items, rather than the exact precise perfect English term for it that you might not even know. If there is a radical, kanji, or vocabulary word missing an English meaning you know, you can add it to your personal user synonyms. It is much easier for me to see the translation of zuurstof, rather than oxygen in this vocabulary, so I added zuurstof to the synonyms. This is probably no accident, as the Dutch used to trade scientific journals for wares with Japan, so terms might have been literally taken from those Dutch books. This is most likely taken from the Dutch (my native language) term for oxygen, which is “zuurstof” or literally translated “acid material”. Simply press “+add synonym” on the learning item’s page or in the information page during reviews.įor example, 酸素 means oxygen, and is separated in 酸 (acid) and 素 (material). You can make your own user synonyms if you want.

Wanikani add synonym