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mkenny

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About mkenny

Founder of JinbuPal, Chinese language learning app. Mechanical engineer, Chinese speaker.

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    Comment #34833521

    Thanks for the feedback! I actually have considered adding a feature for easily-confused characters in a more obvious way. As for now, you can filter by a particular radical, but t…

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    Comment #34829520

    Sorry about that! We will definitely incorporate a direct link to the Terms & Conditions from the registration page. Thanks for that feedback! You can access the terms directly her…

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    Comment #34829211

    We actually have a beta going on right now for Cantonese, so Japanese would be the next language after that. With the Cantonese version, we incorporate additional filters that allo…

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    Comment #34824948

    Thanks for your feedback! I will definitely consider a way we could batch the marking of characters and words as known once you are through the onboarding. I am not sure if you've …

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    Comment #34823215

    Thanks for your questions! JinbuPal is a tool for anyone from complete beginners all the way up to higher level speakers. Regarding grammar, characters which have grammatical usage…

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    Show HN: JinbuPal – Learning Chinese doesn't have to be difficult

    My co-founder and I built a Chinese language learning web app that helps you quickly master the most common Chinese characters and recognize 95% of real content. JinbuPal uniquely …

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    Comment #34788170

    I wonder if there might be a way to incorporate metrics like h-index, which I would think that many researchers themselves would be interested in. Perhaps something like that might…

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    Comment #34342376

    I have experienced a lot of frustration trying to set up ngrok in the past, so this looks very interesting! I will have to try it out soon! Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #34264264

    There's something about this that is really interesting. I would be interested to see this as a Chrome extension that takes over your browser at specified times for you to schedule…

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    Comment #34068909

    Excellent work! You're probably already aware but I figured I would provide feedback in case not. Almost all of the clips would play for a few seconds, pause, and then start again …

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    Comment #34068791

    I really like this idea. I felt a real desire to want to be good at it so it was definitely addictive haha. In keeping with the score idea already mentioned, it might be cool to di…

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    Comment #33945389

    Thanks for sharing! I will definitely plan to go through this course.

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    Comment #33833036

    I really like how you can chart the data. I will say though that I found myself wanting to click the dots on the chart as links and wasn't able to. If you intent people to use this…

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    Comment #33832568

    I've probably read around 5. Honestly though, after I discovered the Y Combinator YouTube channel, I just started blazing through those videos instead because they were so densely …

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    Comment #33832386

    I am not sure which aspects you are looking to recreate exactly, but please check out my Chinese learning web app (JinbuPal). The primary focus is to help you learn high frequency …

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    Comment #33832178

    Great work! I just downloaded the app and was testing it out. I like the way the onboarding is down with a gentle suggestion of what to do first without locking the user out of par…

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    Comment #33831870

    Regarding the Wanikani memory associations, I feel similarly about this. I speak Chinese and learned characters without any of these mnemonic devices. Not being a Japanese learner,…