posted by rachel.friedman on November 20, 2013 | 3 comments
Hi guys, is there any way to delete vocabulary from my review? When I first began using the site and didn't really know how anything worked, I listened to a podcast about Communist mustaches, and now am stuck reviewing words like "Trotsky" and "Rihanna" constantly! I tried deleting from my own personal dictionary but it hasn't removed them from the review rotation.Also, as for adding more functionality to my vocabulary reviewing, each time I listen to an absolute beginner level podcast, I believe it adds "ni3" and "wo3" and similar to my vocab. Being much closer now to elementary level, I'd like to focus on reviewing harder words, but very basic words keep popping up, much too often in my view. Any way to change this? Thanks for your help! - Rachel
murrayjames on November 20, 2013 | reply
I get a lot of 你 and 我 too. It seems the Popup Review counts every instance of 我 as a separate item with its own review history. Since I study a lot of lessons, I have 15 我 flashcards to review for every one 太阳黑子活动加剧.It would make more sense to count 我 only once, no matter how many lessons we've studied it in. Might tricky to implement, given that some words have multiple definitions. But it would keep us from reviewing the same characters over and over again, or manually deleting words.IIRC the Skritter guys have this in their SRS. You can add characters from multiple textbooks, but a character, once added, won't be added again.
Rachel,Are you sure you are studying from wordlist vocab? The default is to pull vocab from lessons you've listened to, in which case marking the lesson as unstudied or deleting it will stop the pain:http://popupchinese.com/account/reviewBest,--david
rachel.friedman on November 22, 2013 | reply
I've changed the setting so now I am reviewing from my wordlist; however, I seem to be getting about half words that I have never seen before! Also, when I click into a new lesson, I'm unable to review those words at all: the space where the character is usually displayed comes up blank?