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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 57 of 131 05 June 2013 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I just noticed continuing reading a text today that the words i'd looked up before seem to have disappeared from the document. I just "learned" them. My other texts seem to be this way, too. I also noticed that my "phrases" were also stored as individual words when i went to learn the flashcards. I don't remember it being this way before, it saved the words i'd looked up and (i think) phrases were only saved as phrases, not the individual words. Is that how it's supposed to be?
I've really been enjoying this so far, thank you so much! Also, for something like Verbix, i'm pretty sure you could create a single program to fetch the data, but since each language has a different set of tenses i don't know if you'd need to pass some parameters to the program for it to be able to pull the correct data. I guess i'm really not the best person to talk to about it, but it seems like if you can get something working for one language it wouldn't be that difficult to support others, too. And of course there's always the possibility of having users manually enter the data in ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4280 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 58 of 131 05 June 2013 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
The list of words in the document sidebar are the words you've translated *this session*, and doesn't include words from previous sessions. I should probably change this to always remember the words attached to the document as I agree it's confusing. Don't worry about losing words though, they will still be in the system, and you can see them all within the Words tab. About the phrases - if you translate a single word, then expand it to make a phrase, the phrase will overwrite the single word. But if in your next reading session you translate the same single word again, it will create a new card. Again, I can see that this is confusing. I need to create a better way to deal with these cases. Again, thanks for the feedback, it's very useful! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 59 of 131 05 June 2013 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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WOW I checked which languages are available now and I'm impressed :)
however, I think you should do like wikipedia and capitalize all language names on the list. as it is, it looks like some languages are respected more than others, but English and Deutsch would also stand out if almost everything else was written in small letters (as it should be). I think wikipedia's solution is the best:) Edited by Serpent on 05 June 2013 at 10:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 60 of 131 06 June 2013 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I wasn't worried so much about losing words (i'd just studied them so i knew that wasn't the case), i was just confused because it looked like i hadn't studied that page yet. When does a session end? I thought i remembered words still being highlighted when leaving a text and coming back to it, but maybe i'm making that up. It might also be nice for words you've looked up before to be underlined or marked somehow, it might make you pay special attention to it. I realize it won't quite work on touch-screen devices, but being able to hover over it and see your previous definition might be nice too. Or simply clicking on it would show it to you, but without adding the word to the database again (unless you wanted to add another sentence to provide a different context for the word).
I think that's how it should be, i was just confused because i'd translated the phrase "al caire" and in my cards i had "al caire", "al", and "caire". There were one or two other cards that did that, too. Maybe it was something i did on my part, i'll see if it happens again when i study today :) It's not a huge issue, though, since it's so quick and easy just to delete the cards you don't want. And maybe it was me, maybe i clicked on them separately, exited the document, and changed them when i went back in? Maybe the cards were created and not deleted when i changed them to include the whole phrase. I can't remember now. EDIT: Ok, i think i figured what it is. It seems like it's adding words even when i unclick them. So if i click a word once, it adds that word. If i add the word beside it, it combines the words. But if i unclick those two words they're still stored in the word list. Any word that you unclick still gets stored into the word list. Edited by Crush on 07 June 2013 at 8:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4280 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 61 of 131 10 June 2013 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks, I've updated these, they'll be visible in the next release, probably later this week.
For the purposes of the word list in the reader page, a session ends when you hit refresh in your browser to reload the webapp. Note that you can navigate the site and read different books without triggering a new session, so the list may even contain words from different books. I'll think about this and change the behavior to be more intuitive. The highlighted words never remain, even if you turn to the next page and then go back they won't be there. I always unhighlight the words after translating since I prefer to read the original word again, so I haven't been bothered by this behavior. I'll think about adding an optional mode to add marks to the words you've looked up before, it's not high on my priorities at the moment though.
This is intentional, I unclick words all the time just to read the original again, and I still want to review them all later. Note that you can delete words from the reader page by opening the sidebar and clicking the "Words" tab, select the words you want to delete and click "Delete". When you translate a single word which is a part of a phrase you already have in your list, it gets added anyway - I'll think of a nicer way to deal with this in future. Note: If you have issues which seem too technical or off topic for this forum, you are very welcome to use my feedback page here: https://readlang.uservoice.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 62 of 131 12 June 2013 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Ok, that makes sense. I was suggesting to show the word for a second or two and then if you wanted to review it hovering over the word to have a popup box show it's definition, but this takes care of that. Previously i thought that unhighlighting a word word remove it from the list.
Another thing i've found which really i have no idea what could be done to change is that a lot of times the sample sentences are incredibly long. I don't know if there'd be a convenient way to quickly select the part of the sentence you want to use in the flashcard. Editing the flashcard is fine, i just don't know if there might be a faster and more convenient way to go about it, like maybe instead of clicking on the edit button being able to double click on the flashcard, change it how you want, and clicking outside of the flashcard would save it. It's just an idea, right now i've been editing most flashcards to shorten the sample sentences and remove things like d' and l' attached to the front of words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 63 of 131 19 June 2013 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Just wanted to comment that i've liked the changes you've made over the past few days :)
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| SteveRidout Diglot Groupie Spain readlang.com Joined 4280 days ago 65 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 64 of 131 19 June 2013 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks :)
And thanks also for the feedback on the long sentence lengths, I'll bear that in mind. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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