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Posted: 2023-09-30, Tags: updates whatsnew topics jok
It's been a while since we've posted an update as we've been busy working on some very exciting new features! We will have more to share over the next few weeks, but in the near future we will be bringing you three major new improvements to Kanshudo:
  1. Some amazing AI-powered interactive features which will add a whole new dimension to your Japanese studies
  2. 'Thematic Bundles' from our partner Joy o' Kanji which will group and cross-reference kanji in ways that will make them much more meaningful. The first bundle will add 'color' to your studies (quite literally ...)
  3. A new JLPT-focused section of Kanshudo to help and support students for the JLPT
In the meantime, we've made many updates and improvements. A quick summary follows below, but first we'd like to highlight a very special milestone: Joy o' Kanji's essay on 徹 marks the 500th essay! While that means there are still 1636 to go (!), 500 in-depth, visually appealing and linguistically intriguing explorations of 500 kanji is a huge achievement. We're especially excited that the new Thematic Bundles will bring the essays to even more kanji students. Congratulations to Joy o' Kanji's founder, Eve Kushner!
Here's a summary of updates since our last post:
25 new Joy o' Kanji essays: 圏 欄 娯 漏 慨 撤 慕 賄 繁 丘 抑 浪 妄 累 沙 埋 潤 弧 妨 占 及 萎 秀 徹 朱
7 new Topic Lessons:
Holidays by Tsunomaki Watame
UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Hay fever Season
UPPER INTERMEDIATE
お
はなみ
花見
INTERMEDIATE
ころ vs ごろ vs ぐらい/くらい
UPPER BEGINNER
Summer in Japan 1
UPPER BEGINNER
Summer in Japan 2
UPPER BEGINNER
ほんまつてんとう
本末転倒
UPPER INTERMEDIATE
13 new grammar points:
POI
羽（わ） 羽（わ）
 
Why 'wa' 羽 for counting rabbits?
〜なのか〜なのか 〜なのか〜なのか
 
whether ~ or ~
verb stem + 忘れる verb stem + 忘れる
 
forget to do ~
誰もが〜 誰もが〜
 
〜なのか 〜なのか
 
(question)
でも + question でも + question
 
POI
解体新書 解体新書
 
detailed analysis
まだしも・ならまだしも まだしも・ならまだしも
 
better ~, rather ~ than ~
～とも～とも ～とも～とも
 
unable to decide
〜ても〜切れない 〜ても〜切れない
 
can never be ~ enough
国民 vs 国家 国民 vs 国家
 
その他 - そのた and そのほか その他 - そのた and そのほか
 
かいがある・かいがあって かいがある・かいがあって
 
to be effective, to be worth doing
Additionally, we made updates to 23 grammar points - you can find the most recent here.
We also added 588 new example sentences and updated another 299!
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