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    @Dominic thanks! The 'levels' are generated like this

    - count the occurrences of each Hanja in the whole set of words, giving each Hanja a 'score' relating to how common it is (in my set of words)

    - rank the words according to the average score of the constituent Hanja

    - then the easy quiz comes from the top 250 words, the medium from the top 1000, and the hard one might choose any of about 3300 words. 

    The most common character in my set is 적 (的) - it does lead to the easy quiz containing lots of --적 words, so i might reduce the 'weight' of that one a bit.


    I like the idea of choosing "Hanja of interest" as it would add a bit of depth to the app without me having to add any more technical infrastructure!


    Which is your blog? A mention would be great... I've noticed that people a lot more fluent and confident than me often have a bit of a vocabulary ceiling. I wrote a few more thoughts at https://taebongsoft.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/korean-vocab-builder/.

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    January 20, 2017
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    @Liz Do you mean, can the user add her own words? Not at the moment, but the 'Hard Quiz' selects (at random) from over 3000 Korean words, which hopefully should keep most people going for a while. If it became popular I might consider putting the database online and allowing people to add to it as an open-source effort... something for the future maybe!
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    January 19, 2017
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    I really struggle to remember more advanced Korean vocabulary, so I made a little Android app to help me...

    I've kind of got stuck at a lower-intermediate level of Korean.... maybe that's because I haven't been around here at Italki much lately? :)

    But I did get married to a Korean lady, so I don't think that's the problem!

    I think one of the main reasons is that I struggle to remember 'advanced' words that I don't use every day.

    A lot of these words are based around 한자 - and I've heard that learning the 한자 will really help with learning vocabulary.

    Of course I don't really have time to learn 한자 well! So I made a little Android app that would help me remember the 한자 meanings in each of the words:

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=taebongsoft.hanjaobuilder

    It's free (I just want to help, not make money!) and won't ask for any permissions on your phone - just something to help me out, but I hope some other learners might be interested too.

    What do you think of this idea? Is it useful for studying 한자어 vocabulary?


    January 19, 2017
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    'Was' is past, and 'to demonstrate' means the demonstration is in the future. So it means that the demonstration happened in the hour after the (past) time we are talking about. "As Orgos then demonstrated over the next hour" is about the same.
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    August 29, 2014
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    to "get correct" = "to correct", "to fix". So no, "getting the end of the config files correct" is not the same as "which can be solved by correcting config files". "getting the end of the config files correct" is more like "correcting the end of config files". You should learn the phrasal verb to "get right", "get correct".
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    August 29, 2014
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    Actually a Chinese word: "Kowtowing." It means submitting - showing too much respect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowtow
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    August 28, 2014
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    "Would be there any chance of you e-mailing me if there were any tickets available soon?"
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    August 27, 2014
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    However clean everything is, your mother-in-law will complain. Let her clean them when she's with you - she can feel useful and it will save you time.
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    August 27, 2014
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    "Make love" WITH somebody means "have sex". However, in the lyrics, it doesn't say "make love WITH" somebody - just "make love", which could literally just mean creating love, or a loving situation. So "making love out of nothing at all" could mean to create a loving situation from nothing. So, it's a pun on the more usual meaning of "make love".
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    August 27, 2014
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