Kanji Teacher - Learn Japanese

October 11, 2024

o Improved test selection for the tutor: - On the start screen, when the TUTOR tab is active you can use SELECT to choose the tests that the tutor will present. The previous, less precise setting is not automatically transferred. - A new setting allows you to intensively test all kanjis marked with a star; they will be presented by the tutor once a day, regardless of their color. - Another new setting allows you to choose whether or not the red and blue tests are displayed by the tutor. Regardless of these settings, the brown (review) and gray (new) tests that become red or blue are presented until they become green. However, if you choose to change the settings, this history will be ignored.. o Various adjustments for the answer of the tests: - Improved logic of how answer buttons are arranged and how texts fit into them. - For sentences, you can choose whether the words are spaced or not. - The kanjis 唄, 岡, 栃, 埼, 阜, 茨 now have a reading. - Obviously impossible answers, e.g. because a hiragana already present in the question is missing, do not appear or appear less frequently. o The buttons on the bottom have been moved slightly inwards towards the center when the iPad is in landscape mode. o Changes to keywords no longer affect example words. o Minor adjustments to the manual. o Unfortunately, speech output did not work in some cases on iOS18, this has been fixed. For this reason, I had to make this release earlier than planned. So, if your change request has not yet been implemented, the next release will try to address that. Thank you very much for your feedback. o Bugfix 12.5.1: some tests of type “Word → Reading” caused an error if grouping was “School Year”.

September 29, 2024

o Improved test selection for the tutor: - On the start screen, when the TUTOR tab is active you can use SELECT to choose the tests that the tutor will present. The previous, less precise setting is not automatically transferred. - A new setting allows you to intensively test all kanjis marked with a star; they will be presented by the tutor once a day, regardless of their color. - Another new setting allows you to choose whether or not the red and blue tests are displayed by the tutor. Regardless of these settings, the brown (review) and gray (new) tests that become red or blue are presented until they become green. However, if you choose to change the settings, this history will be ignored.. o Various adjustments for the answer of the tests: - Improved logic of how answer buttons are arranged and how texts fit into them. - For sentences, you can choose whether the words are spaced or not. - The kanjis 唄, 岡, 栃, 埼, 阜, 茨 now have a reading. - Obviously impossible answers, e.g. because a hiragana already present in the question is missing, do not appear or appear less frequently. o The buttons on the bottom have been moved slightly inwards towards the centre when the iPad is in landscape mode. o Changes to keywords no longer affect example words. o Minor adjustments to the manual. o Unfortunately, speech output did not work in some cases on iOS18, this has been fixed. For this reason, I had to make this release earlier than planned. So, if your change request has not yet been implemented, the next release will try to address that. Thank you very much for your feedback.

May 24, 2023

New setting "Smooth drawn stroke": ○ By default, Kanji Teacher aligns a drawn stroke with the correct stroke. This allows for fluent writing, as mistakes are detected immediately and subsequent strokes can be drawn based on them. Experienced users of Kanji Teacher can now disable this behavior - or enable it only when Kanji Teacher detects an error, to continue writing the kanji in a meaningful way. Two new options allow more control over when the pattern is shown: ○ "Levels for which pattern is shown at the beginning": The default is NEW and FAIL, but after some learning time this setting may make more sense only at NEW. ○ "Show pattern also when": Specifies whether the help pattern is displayed after a test is marked incorrect or the character is drawn completely. The second option can be useful if the strokes are not smoothed, then you can see the correct strokes at the end for comparison. Other improvements: ○ Implemented about two dozen corrections to words, kanjis, hints, and pronunciations. ○ Removed words and their tests that are 100% identical to a kanji (both the reading and the keyword). ○ Added a new voice and tried to improve the quality of the existing ones. PS: The quality of the voices and the exact pronunciation also depends on the device and is partly out of my control. ○ Font sizes have been slightly adjusted, especially for split screen on iPad and when display zoom is active. As with every update, a handful of tests will be reverted to NEW because the correct answer has changed slightly. And: I am still working on requests that have not been implemented in this release.

May 1, 2020

Besides some bugfixes two important new settings have been added.  ○ Show answer: OFF (previous behavior), WRONG (new default), ALL With this new setting you can control if the answer buttons show what they actually mean after answering the question. With WRONG this only happens if the answer was incorrect, and only the incorrect answer is revealed. With ALL it happens always and for all buttons. ○ Auto proceed: OFF, CORRECT (new default), ALWAYS (previous behavior) This setting defines whether the next test is automatically presented when you release the answer button - or you have to press NEXT (or anywhere on the answers) to continue. Auto proceed helps you to learn faster: with CORRECT it happens if the answer is right, but in case of an incorrect answer you can look at the correct answer calmly and then continue. With ALWAYS it happens even in case of an incorrect answer. One behavior remains the same: As long as your finger is on the answer button or SKIP, the answer remains displayed, only when you release it "Auto proceed" becomes active. The new default differs from the previous behavior, but you can simply set it back to the way it was before using the settings "Show answer: OFF" and "Auto proceed: ALWAYS". Many thanks to Gabriel, Soshun and Goccia!

March 31, 2020

- A new setting allows different learning strategies: for example, an earlier review at the beginning and a later one for well known tests - Improved readability of sentences - "More" now also has a tutor, for instance to learn the basic vocabulary

March 2, 2020

Some small bug fixes, adjustment and optimization of the word list. In addition, the review function has been improved to better distribute the tests over time. I will start soon with the development of the next major release. Thank you very much for your feedback, which I will try to implement.

December 30, 2019

# Radicals Learning of radicals is now supported in many different ways: Each Kanji has its own radical in addition to the already present components. In addition to the 214 radicals and 143 components (which cover around 98% of all Kanjis), there are now also own tests and an own Analyze screen that shows which Kanjis are made up of them. Kanjis can now also be searched for using radicals and components. # iPad iPad support has been improved. The landscape mode, Split View (two apps next to each other) and Slide Over (Kanji Teacher above another app, e.g. Safari) are also new. # Keywords In addition to the existing Kanji keywords (from “Remembering the Kanjis”), keywords from Wikipedia can now also be selected (with a slight modification to ensure the words are unique). These are also available in German, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian. Some of these words are automatically translated and should be treated with caution – as a result it remains possible to specify the keywords (and now also the radicals too) yourself. # Settings - The SYNC function is used to synchronize the saved data with the iCloud. - Kanji Teacher now also offers a dark mode. - Vibration is used as feedback for correct and incorrect tests. - The size of the answer grid can now be adjusted to make the tests more challenging. - In sentences, the translation and reading can now be hidden. - “Pencil Support” is no longer used on the iPhone. # Multiple learning lists In addition to the existing starred list, up to seven own lists can now be managed, searched, and the Kanas, Kanjis and radicals assigned in the SEARCH and ANALYZE screens. Additionally, Kanjis detailed in sections of popular textbooks and Kanken test groups can be assigned to one of these lists under SETTINGS. The tests from the “More” section can also now be marked with star. # New tests In addition to the components and radicals, the following new tests have been added: - 127 important geographical locations in Japan - Over 1,300 Japanese first names and surnames together with their reading - Some very rarely used words have been removed. # Tutor The “Recommended Learning” list has been renamed as “Tutor” and significantly expanded: Which tests are included can now be set, while the biggest change is the addition of two dedicated tutors – one for Kana and one for Kanji. These tutors accompany the user through the entire learning process, explain Kanji Teacher, introduce new characters, present the tests in the tutor list and celebrate achievements. # Analyze In the Analyze screen, characters can now be copied to the clipboard and can also be enlarged using the pinch function. In addition to access to the integrated dictionary, external websites (e.g. for explaining the etymology of the Kanji) are now also integrated. Compounds can now be pronounced aloud, the character have a new animation showing the stroke sequence. ## Closing words Various pronunciations of words have also been corrected and other bugs fixed. Many thanks for your feedback! In particular, I would like to thank Gabriel, Aleksandar, Alex, Dave, Frédéric, Hannah, Héloïse, Maxym, Richard and Shoushun. Unfortunately, I was not able to put all of your suggestions into action. I hope to address this in the next release. Many thanks for your ideas and your patience.

March 18, 2019

New settings for the writing screen: - Basic support for Apple Pencil. - Now you can customized when the next stroke or test will be shown. Possible options are: OFF: The feature is completely switched off. ARROW: Touching the small arrow on the drawing area shows the next stroke or test (the new default). SCREEN: Touching the screen anywhere shows the next stroke or test (the old behavior). Bug fixes: - Double words in the analysis screen are now omitted. Thanks to Michele!

February 17, 2019

New feature allows copying backup files from and to iTunes. Buf fixes - Some spelling mistakes were corrected. (Thanks to Michael) - Fixed tests with two answers you could pass by clicking twice on the same answer. (Thanks to Antoine) - The progress is now also stored correctly on 32bit devices (iPad2, iPhone 4s and iPhone 5). (Thanks to Nicole and Lucia) - The year 2017 in charts is now displayed correctly. (Thanks to Peter)

February 12, 2019

New feature: With the function "Settings > Recover" you can select a backup and try to restore it. Bug fixes: - The progress was not saved correctly on iOS 9 and 10: If this happened to you, please use the the new "Settings > Recover" function and select the largest backup file. Or contact kanji_teacher@rusche.ch so I can help you. (Thanks to Claire and B.A.) - Sometimes the reading was not displayed correctly in the Analyze screen of a word. (Thanks to Michael) - In certain cases the answers to a question were not unambiguous. (Thanks to Michele and Jan) - in Practice and Paper mode sometimes the last stroke was not drawn and has triggered the 'next' function. (Thanks to Michele and Michael)