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Nicki   October 2nd, 2011 8:49a.m.

There is a "feedback" button on the lower right corner of the practice page :)

StEskil   October 2nd, 2011 9:33a.m.

I guess there are numerous ways to study, may way is always correct the pinyin from scratch for any mistake and then ranking it to 1 or 2. It´s a bit slower, but I believe it helps me.

scott   October 2nd, 2011 11:29a.m.

In addition to the feedback box on the study page that Nicki pointed out, there's also a contact link on every page at the bottom, right of 'legal', left of 'resources'.

For responding to your question, I'll leave this one to Nick since he works on that part of the site. He's working super hard on the iPhone app right now though so his response time is going to be a little slower than usual. Thanks for your patience!

nick   October 3rd, 2011 4:24p.m.

I am not sure about allowing one to change the grade after typing a pinyin like that. It seems more useful to me to be able to quickly backspace or just retype the last tone number in case I made a typo. What do others think?

nick   October 4th, 2011 12:35p.m.

Well, I like to retype the tones if I make a typo to indicate what I actually meant, because Skritter can then figure out which characters inside the word I knew or didn't know, too. If I use the correct button, it has to mark everything right, or just the word-level pinyin item wrong (without submitting any of the char-level reviews or the word-level tone item).

The practice page is the study page (it used to be called the practice page). So if you click the "study" link, you're on the study nav page, and if you click "Study All My Lists", then you're on the study page.

wispfrog   October 4th, 2011 6:36p.m.

I too find myself sometimes getting confused and trying to grade at the tone prompt (or indeed tone at some grade prompts.) Ideally, there would be tone shortcut keys that have no meaning as grading keys.

(I'm very often nowadays working entirely from the keyboard, just writing characters in the air/my head.)

Dennis   October 6th, 2011 2:36p.m.

This thread has straightened things out for me about synonyms. I'm getting a lot of them lately in "Rapid Literacy in Chinese". So if I understand things
I should just go back to the beginning of the item, redo it and this will set things straight?

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