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| Eugeniu |
 Posted: Jul 20, 2008 9:35 pm |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 32
Location: Minnesota, USA
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I've literally spent hours pouring into coding this website, and I've finally finished it enough to be able to show it off! 
KanaQuest.com
The site is divided into three parts, KanaWords, HiraKQ, and KataKQ. Each is its seperate quiz and you can read the instructions to find out how to play. But you probably don't need them  .
Please give my site a rating of 1-10!
This is my list of songs that I have for the J-Pop player:
Quote: Ai Senshi
Are You Wake Up
BRAVE
Chu-lip
Daydreamer
Emu ~for my dears~
Frienger
Heartplace
Hide & Seek
is this LOVE
It's all about you
Kalmia
Kimi ga matteiru kara
Kiss o' Kill
Mousou Chop
My Friend
No way
ourselves
Peach
Sensu
Style
Taskinst
U+K
U-Booto |
Last edited by Eugeniu on Aug 19, 2008 8:57 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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| sljinu |
| Posted: Jul 20, 2008 10:00 pm |
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Joined: 02 Aug 2007
Posts: 952
Location: Australia
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| Interesting idea, but I can't access the page. I'd like to rate it for ya though! Is there any special program that you need to view it? |
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| Eugeniu |
| Posted: Jul 20, 2008 10:25 pm |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 32
Location: Minnesota, USA
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It should be viewable for virtually every browser on every OS...lol. Refresh maybe? |
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| mangomalte |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 1:02 am |
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恋愛写真
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 1511
Location: Sweden
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can't access it either... and i'm running on Firefox 3.0 on Windows XP.
"Firefox doesn't know how to open this page since the protocol (htp) isn't associated with any program." |
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| briankrish |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 10:45 am |
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桃ノ花ビラ
Joined: 15 Jan 2006
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| Just type "KanaQuest.com" as the address and Firefox is smart enough to figure the rest out. |
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| Eugeniu |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 10:46 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 32
Location: Minnesota, USA
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I just figured out the problem. I made the url be htp://kana... instead of http://kana...
Edit: Whoops, someone beat me to it xD. |
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| LinLin-Sama |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 3:15 pm |
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Joined: 24 Mar 2006
Posts: 820
Location: Somwhere in Germany
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I'd honestly give it a ten... the questions really help improve the vocabulary and the repaeting helps retain them in your head. Plus I get to re learn my hiragana and katakana. 
Good job. The hard work was worth it. |
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| sljinu |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 7:57 pm |
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Location: Australia
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I'd give it a 7/10. It's quite simplistic, and is a great way to help people but there are a few things that I think could be done to improve it.
First of all, when you put in the definition, some of them are rather vague. みぎ? The right direction? Could that be 'the correct direction' or could it be 'right' as in the opposite direction to 'left'? I know this looks like a very minor thing but if someone did make the assumption that I did then they may go on with the wrong thing learnt, despite the fact that you did try to teach them the correct definition. Getting rid of any ambiguity there could also take this site farther.
Also, with the definitions, I think it could be a good idea to put the actual meaning in bold to distinguish it from the rest of the sentence. It's probably not necessary but I think that might just help it look better.
Second of all, the site is still ridden with mistakes. I know it's still just in its early stages so there are many errors yet to be rectified so I'll let it go for now. To tell you the truth, I wrote a whole paragraph about making a feedback section or whatever until I realised you already did. Stupid me for not crediting you with enough intelligence  申し訳ありません。But perhaps you could put the feedback section readily accessible at all times? That way, people don't have to go back to the homepage and then click on the activity again to reach the link to report language errors. If you make it difficult for people to report something, they'll be less inclined to bother reporting it.
With the music, when you make the listing of where to find more J-pop, the space is extraordinarily cramped and looks quite ugly. If you could fix that up, it would look nice too. Also, I found the music player didn't work for me. It just says "Connecting" when I click on it.
Soo, other than that I didn't really find anything else to gripe about  Good work with the site...I'll be sure to let my old Japanese teacher know about it once those spelling mistakes have been checked out, she may find it useful and show it to her students ^^ I hope you can make the stretch to kanji sometime in the future...I'll be 100% sure to come back for that! Keep it up! |
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| Eugeniu |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 8:21 pm |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 32
Location: Minnesota, USA
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sljinu wrote: I'd give it a 7/10. It's quite simplistic, and is a great way to help people but there are a few things that I think could be done to improve it.
First of all, when you put in the definition, some of them are rather vague. みぎ? The right direction? Could that be 'the correct direction' or could it be 'right' as in the opposite direction to 'left'? I know this looks like a very minor thing but if someone did make the assumption that I did then they may go on with the wrong thing learnt, despite the fact that you did try to teach them the correct definition. Getting rid of any ambiguity there could also take this site farther.
Also, with the definitions, I think it could be a good idea to put the actual meaning in bold to distinguish it from the rest of the sentence. It's probably not necessary but I think that might just help it look better.
Second of all, the site is still ridden with mistakes. I know it's still just in its early stages so there are many errors yet to be rectified so I'll let it go for now. To tell you the truth, I wrote a whole paragraph about making a feedback section or whatever until I realised you already did. Stupid me for not crediting you with enough intelligence 申し訳ありません。But perhaps you could put the feedback section readily accessible at all times? That way, people don't have to go back to the homepage and then click on the activity again to reach the link to report language errors. If you make it difficult for people to report something, they'll be less inclined to bother reporting it.
With the music, when you make the listing of where to find more J-pop, the space is extraordinarily cramped and looks quite ugly. If you could fix that up, it would look nice too. Also, I found the music player didn't work for me. It just says "Connecting" when I click on it.
Soo, other than that I didn't really find anything else to gripe about Good work with the site...I'll be sure to let my old Japanese teacher know about it once those spelling mistakes have been checked out, she may find it useful and show it to her students ^^ I hope you can make the stretch to kanji sometime in the future...I'll be 100% sure to come back for that! Keep it up!
Sorry, for the latest 50ish words added, I was in a *bit* of a hurry to finish them to have enough words to be able to start coding the next two quizzes, HiraKQ and KataKQ.
Ironically I spent more time on みぎ than on other words because I just didn't know how to describe it so that everyone would know what I mean. Do you have a suggestion?
Yes, after this post I'm probably going to add a "Report Errors" link to every page after 'Home' and 'Instructions'. Thanks for the suggestion.
The music player should work on FireFox, IE, and Safari, but it requires Flash and JavaScript for streaming music. I can't really make a music player without those two elements. Unless I use something like Window Media Player or Real Player or something. But not that many people have or use those. And WMP is only for Windows.
Kanji hmm...  . It's probably going to be quite a while till then.
Thanks for the review. |
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| sljinu |
| Posted: Jul 21, 2008 10:39 pm |
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Joined: 02 Aug 2007
Posts: 952
Location: Australia
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How about "the opposite direction to left" or something along those lines? I mean like, I didn't mean to imply to such extremes where you detail it up to a point where the definition cannot fail in all cases and your definition wasn't all as bad as I may have made it out to be. I was just trying to put across the point that things that may seem plainly obvious to you may not be as obvious to others so a little more patience with how things are explained could reap more rewards for yourself as well as those studying from your site. I know such a project is quite the monotonous task for one person, and hell we can't expect you to write the entire Japanese-English dictionary perfectly in a few days.
As for the music player, perhaps it's just something to do with my computer. If other people aren't making an issue out of it then I wouldn't worry about it. |
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| mangomalte |
| Posted: Jul 22, 2008 2:31 am |
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恋愛写真
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 1511
Location: Sweden
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the music player works fine for me.
i don't know which romanisation rules you go after, but i tend to write the way they're written in japanese. like, i got wrong for "ohayou gozaimasu" instead of "ohayo gozaimasu". especially since it's a site for learning kana you'll end up writing it the way it's written in japanese.
oh, and a small thing, the answer for ひらがなすらよめない said "iragana sura yomenai". missing an h.
but it's a really nice site.  even though i've gone past the kana learning stage. |
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| LinLin-Sama |
| Posted: Jul 22, 2008 3:04 am |
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Joined: 24 Mar 2006
Posts: 820
Location: Somwhere in Germany
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sljinu wrote:
Second of all, the site is still ridden with mistakes.
With the music, when you make the listing of where to find more J-pop, the space is extraordinarily cramped and looks quite ugly. If you could fix that up, it would look nice too. Also, I found the music player didn't work for me. It just says "Connecting" when I click on it.
With the mistake part... I never really noticed that because I'm just starting to learn Japanese and I'm not even learning it continuosly because I have to perfect my weird wretched German.
About the music thing I did have the same problem, but I didn't really find it important because I have to listen to my own music when studying.
Thats why I gave it a ten. I'm not taking it back though. |
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| Eugeniu |
| Posted: Jul 22, 2008 10:29 am |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 32
Location: Minnesota, USA
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| Lol, thanks. For the J-Pop player, you have flash installed, right? |
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| LinLin-Sama |
| Posted: Jul 23, 2008 5:29 am |
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Joined: 24 Mar 2006
Posts: 820
Location: Somwhere in Germany
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| Yep... I have flash installed and I am using Firefox. |
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| Eugeniu |
| Posted: Jul 23, 2008 12:23 pm |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 32
Location: Minnesota, USA
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You have javascript enabled too, right? |
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