I had a few free hours today, and I had a chance to implement some suggestions to my Mandarin word of the day service http://cn.robrohan.com. Here is what’s new:
- Fixed the Mac OS X widget to allow for multiple lines of English text on the back side
- Added an initial HSK filter so the words the service sends out are not quite so obscure
- Added several English words to the definition list. So you’ll see “woman; female; daughter” not just “daughter”
- Updated to the latest version of http://cc-cedict.org/wiki
- Doubled the word of the day to 2 words per day (which makes “word of the day” seem kind of silly, but eh.)
The twitter post now looks like this to indicate the HSK level of the word:
今天的单词: 女 (女) nǚ — woman; female; daughter HSK(1)
And the OS X widget looks like this:
You’ll need to download the latest widget to get some of these improvements. You can get the new widget here: http://cn.robrohan.com.
I have not updated the Google gadget because Google changed the format or something and I’ll have to write a new gadget. The HSK filter will still work (so the words wont be as weird), but you wont know if the word is level 1,2,3 or 4.
Happy studying
