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N2 Content Drop #12
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The champ… is here! Punching and kicking and jabbing and ducking and weaving and bobbing and also swerving their way… to victory!!! All the way from the Sands of Mastery! It’s… AN N2 CONTENT DROP!!!
This week’s grammar features the ever-magnanimous ～に限って (with not one, not two, but three usages!), ～のみ, a fancy “only”, and the mystery-beset ～まい・のではあるまいか (oh… my!).
And for vocab, we’ve got words such as 俳句 (“haiku”), 免許 (“license”), and 致命的 (“fatal”). Think of all the sentences you can make with those!
What’s more, this week’s reading features nepotism in the workplace, a house party, and some surprising info about the awesome and mysterious elephant!
All of this and more awaits you in the sandy N2 region…
Happy studies!
N2 Content Drop #11
Yet another content drop??? Yes! The rumours are true! And so are the rumors, for all of our American users! But before we get into all that, as the summer winds down, along with the MaruMari anniversary sale (!!!), I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge all of our lovely users.
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Okay done! Acknowledged. Now to the good stuff.
This week’s batch features some real heavyweight grammar points. In the red corner, wearing the white shorts, we’ve got ～てたまらない・てしかたがない for “can’t help but feel X”. And in the blue corner, wearing pink, there’s ～てならない for… “can’t help but feel X”. So, who’s going to win? What’s the difference between these two? You’ll just have to check out the lessons to find out!
And for vocab, there are awesome and useful words such as 忍者 (“ninja”), 忍ぶ (“to endure; to hide”), and… 茶, for “tea”.
And be sure not to skip this week’s reading, as we take a look a high-tech lawn, the true identity of the pizza thief is finally revealed, and the gang takes a trip to the MaruMori escape room!
All of this and more, available now (yes, now!) in the Sands of Mastery!
Happy studies!
N2 content drop #10
Another week, another N2 content drop, another chocolate croissant secured. (I’m allowed one per batch, according to the rules. Although, as they say, rules were made… to be broken.)
In this batch of content, we’ve really pulled out all the stops, giving you not just one, but TWO ways to say “in the end” (～あげく and ～末に), as well as TWO ways to express your desires (～たいもの and ～ない(だろう)か). What can I say, we were feeling generous.
For vocab and kanji, we’ve got distinguished items such as 睡眠 (“sleep”, but fancy), 飾る (“to decorate”), and 砂糖 (“sugar”). Incredible!
And last but not least, this week’s reading exercise features fireworks, doggos, and dementors. What’s not to love?
All of this and more, available now, in the Sands of Mastery!
Happy studies!
(Note: we'll be posting updates about content drops here on the site from now on as well, as previously we were only announcing them on Discord, and figured it might be nice to do both!)
MaruMori's Second Anniversary Sale has started!
Hey everyone!
In celebration of our second anniversary since our full launch on the 14th of August, 2023, we've decided to hold a special lifetime sale.
We've created a sales page where we (hopefully) answer most of the questions you might have. You can take a little looksie over here:
We can't believe it's already been two years since our launch out of open beta! Somehow it feels like just yesterday (and at the same time like 10 years ago haha!)... Oh, how time flies, huh...
It's also nice to look back at what we've accomplished since then, as well as look forward to all of the exciting features and content we've got in store for you in the coming year(s)! So to help with that, we've also updated our roadmap to give a better indication of what is coming (and when), as well as added tags to show what type of feature/content it is:
Anyhow! I'm sure many of you've been waiting for this moment, so be sure to check out the billing page to take advantage of this sale and join the rest of the cult lifetimers in their endless devotion to Maru studying Japanese:
For those of you who plan to support us, or are already doing so, thank you so much! We really couldn't do this without your support and (heaps of) feedback. All of you have helped us make the site and mobile app so much better already, and we're excited to continue to improve them even further. Thank you!
- The MaruMori Team
New Mobile Apps Update - v1.0.11 - Tap to display Furigana & blurring English translations Settings for Grammar Lessons
Hey everyone!
Yet another mobile app update was approved by the app stores! The fourth one in a short period, totally not because someone reported an issue with the results page of the Verb Transitivity Trainer... No, definitely not 👀
Anyways! The good news is that along with a fix for the above mentioned results page, it also brings a neat feature to the mobile apps that many of you had been waiting for:
Grammar Lesson Furigana & English Settings
We've replaced the Suggest Changes button above the navbar on the Grammar Lesson page with a new "more" button. Tapping this button brings up two additional buttons:
The Suggest Changes button (red)
The Lesson Settings button (purple)
Tapping the latter will bring up the lesson settings modal, where you can change if/how furigana shows up on Japanese text in the lesson as a whole, as well as tell it to blur English translations in example sentences or not.
If you enable "tap to show" for furigana, it hides all furigana by default, but when you tap on a kanji (compound), it will show the furigana as usual. This is a great way to test yourself on kanji readings! This setting is now the default for the mobile apps.
In this screenshot, you can see that I've tapped on one of the English translations, and a few kanji (but not all) to show the corresponding translation and furigana. It's that simple!
Other Improvements & Bugfixes
Verb Transitivity Trainer - Fixed the results screen answers
Statistics - Added extra padding to the bottom for the heatmap tooltip to show properly when tapping on the last days.
SRS Lessons & Reviews - Fixed an issue where it wouldn't accept answers with ー in them for reading layouts.
Kanji Imposters - Kanji now show up a bit more towards the bottom of the screen to make them easier to tap.
Images - Images (like Maru in the navbar) would sometimes glitch out and show a purple square. This was a bug in the framework we were using, and it should be fixed now, as we've updated to the latest version of the framework.
That's about it for now! But keep an eye out for more app updates soon! We've already finished work on implementing Quick Study into the app, but want to add a few additional features/pages before releasing yet another update!