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The (Similar) Kanji Imposter Minigame & Practice Tool just went live!
Emergency meeting! There is an imposter among… these kanji. In fact, they’re all imposters, except one. Your job is to pick the real one! That’s the game. And it’s out now. Hurray!
The Kanji Imposters minigame is all about fine-tuning your kanji recognition skills, by pairing a given kanji with its similar-looking kanji cousins. (Think 末 vs 未.)
There are two different modes, Practice, and High Score. In both modes, you’re given a kanji’s meaning(s), and are prompted to select it from the list of 2-5 kanji below.
For Practice, you may choose from your known (learned) kanji, N5, N4, N3, or N2 kanji. For High Score, the kanji sets are limited to just the JLPT levels.
In Practice, there’s no timer, score, or combo, and you can take as much time as you’d like to identify the correct character. For practice, you can choose the number of questions you’d like, and there is a toggle that lets you filter out correctly answered kanji from your previous session(s). So you don’t have to repeat the ones you find easy!
In High Score, you can pit your kanji-recognition skills against the rest of the community by attempting to pick as many correct kanji (from a pool of 50 random kanji within that JLPT level) as you can, as fast as possible. There is a multiplier bar at the top that starts at x1 and increases as you correctly select kanji. Once it goes above x1, it will begin to diminish quickly, so answer swiftly to increase your multiplier (up to x10) and keep your combo going!
Failing to pick the right answer on time will decrease the combo by 1. Picking the wrong answer will give you 0 points! So, in most cases, it's preferable to make sure you pick the right one, even if your combo drops by 1 or more (as picking the correct answer will still give you points!).
For convenience's sake, we've also added hotkeys for the kanji options. You can press 1,2,3,4,5 to select the corresponding kanji.
For both modes, after your session, you’ll see a results screen that will show you the number of kanji you identified correctly, as well as the kanji that you didn’t get right.
If you do well enough in a High Score session, you may even end up on the leaderboard…
So good luck, and happy kanji-identifying!
The new N2 & N3 JLPT Mock Exams are here!
Hello all!
It’s nearly that time of the year again, when students of Japanese get a chance to show off how well (or not) they’ve studied. We’re happy to announce that, in advance of the upcoming JLPT, we have some new mock exams for you!
Head over to study tools -> mock exams to access a brand-new, additional N3 mock exam, as well as our first-ever JLPT N2 mock exam!
We’ve put much time and care into making sure these mock exams are not only accurate in level to the JLPT, but also test common gaps in knowledge and test a wide range of vocabulary/grammar. We hope you get a lot of preparatory use out of them!
As we started N2 and completed N3 adventure content, we've also started filling in the missing links of previously made N3 exams, as we made those before N3 was content complete on MM. This means that we've linked the vocab, kanji, and grammar points used in the exams to their corresponding lessons for further study in case you failed any of the questions.
Coming along with this update, we've also updated the achievements and badge artwork for successfully completing the exams:
Rest assured, we are also working on the audio sections for our JLPT mock exams, and we hope to start releasing them in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled!
That’s all for now, and best of luck to all of those writing the July JLPT!
P.s. Are you going to be the first to get the new certificate on your profile for passing the N2 exam?
Looks great, doesn't it? 👀
Sharing (Community) Study Lists, SL item management changes and more!
Hey everyone!
A very exciting new update went live a few days ago! Namely, one that not only brings you a way to grab study lists shared by the community, but also publish your own lists to share with the rest of the community!
Let's dive into it!
Community Study Lists (Lists shared by you, or the rest of the community!)
That's right! You can now publish lists to share them with the rest of the MaruMori Community! Or you can grab one shared by someone else, straight from the Community Page of the Premade Study Lists Section. Clickie here to check
Grabbing a study list is as easy as clicking on the Study List and clicking on the "Get Study List" button. As with all premade study lists, this means it will get added with a default of 10 new lessons per day. Be sure to adjust this number if needed!
Now, as for sharing your Study Lists with the rest of the community. You can do so by going to the Study List that you wish to share -> Edit Study List button -> Open Community Publishing Modal
This opens another modal, in which you can write a little description for the study list and then hit "Publish" or "Push Update," depending on whether you have already published the Study List or not.
As you might have guessed, changes you make to the Study List are not published automatically to the Community version of it. You will need to manually update the Community version through the above-mentioned "Push Update" button. This was done to give some extra control over when content gets updated for everyone using the Community version, making it so that you can edit things without impacting their studies.
One caveat to be aware of is that you can not delete published Study Lists. But you can of course, always adjust your own daily lessons to 0 to not have to study it yourself anymore.
We've also set a few limits in place to ensure at least a little bit of quality:
Must have a description
Must have at least 20 items
The max amount of items is 10k.
Aside from that, we sort based on the number of users who are actively using the list by default. So the most popular ones get to be on top. Hopefully making it easy to pick out the popular study lists!
We can't wait to see what you all will share with the rest of the community! Perhaps a grammar study list for a specific textbook? A frequency list for anime? A study list for a specific game? The possibilities are endless! 
P.S. Some of our lovely supporters have already been publishing some study lists after we announced the feature in our supporter-only Discord channel. If you also wish to join and get early access or information about new features, be sure to join our Discord and then type /verify in chat to get your corresponding supporter roles (if you have a paid subscription or lifetime account). Those roles give you access to a super secret supporter-only channel where we sometimes post updates about new things before they go live. For the invite link, check the top of this page!
Other New Features
Guess what, we're not done yet! We also have a few other smaller features and bug fixes!
Adventure - Grammar Lessons - The Grammar Lessons where you learn Hiragana are now accompanied by Native speaker audio!
Study Lists - Manage Items Table - The item management table for study lists has been revamped! It now makes better use of vertical space, allowing the same table to be used effectively on mobile devices as well. That's right! Easy management of items on mobile (website) now too!
Conjugation Trainer - Removed top spacing for mobile devices to ensure the input and prompts are always visible, even when the device's keyboard covers the screen.
Statistics - Streak - Unlock tiles now count for your adventure heatmap.
Bugfixes:
SRS - (Flip) Buttons Mode - Now no longer zooms the page on mobile if you tap too fast.
SRS - Flip Buttons Mode - No longer plays audio twice when buttons mode and lightning mode are both active.
Website Update! Flip Buttons Mode for SRS, Manual SRS Lessons Picking, Lightning mode modifier, improvements and a whole bunch of bugfixes!
Hey everyone!
We've finally had some time to focus on some smaller (but oh so fun) new features, improvements, and bugfixes for the website again!
Let's get into it!
New Features:
SRS - Vocabulary & Kanji - You can now toggle on Flip Buttons Mode during the lesson quiz and reviews! This means you get a button for "Show" on the front side of an SRS card, and two new buttons on the back side for "Correct" and "Wrong".
When this mode is enabled, you have to grade yourself by using the buttons, and the input gets removed, so no typing is involved!
This is mainly handy for when you are on mobile devices, where typing can be much slower and prone to typos, or when you have a huge stack of reviews to go through.
Watch out though! In general, retention rates are higher when you type things out, so use it with care!
For keyboard users, you can use the following hotkeys while the mode is enabled:
SPACE - Show
G - Correct
H - Wrong
These hotkeys can also be changed on the settings page (see screenshot below)!
SRS - Lightning Mode SHIFT modifier key - If you have lightning mode enabled but want to disable it for the current item, you can now hold SHIFT while pressing ENTER. It will then show the backside of the card, even if the answer is correct (normally, it would skip the backside with lightning mode on).
SRS - Mark As Known Hotkey - We've added a new hotkey option for marking items as known during SRS sessions. You can go to the settings page to set up the new hotkey.
Recently Studied / Leeches - Each table now shows how many items you've selected on top of the table.
SRS - Lightning Mode now has separate modes for Vocab/Kanji vs Grammar SRS.
SRS - Typo allowance has been changed to be a bit stricter.
Study Lists - Manage Items - You can now start a new lesson session with items you selected. Meaning you can now pick your own lessons for the day! Super handy when going through any of the parsed native material lists, for example!
Bugfixes:
Recently Studied - Fixed an issue where turning the "Mistakes Only" filter on would skip certain items and filter them from the view.
Stories - Fixed an issue where certain "elements" used in stories would not render properly during SRS.
Grammar Lessons - Exercises - Fixed an issue where the input would not automatically convert from romaji to kana in Firefox browsers.
Dictionary - Fixed an issue where certain (counter) Vocabulary would not show the contained Kanji.
Adventure - Unlocks Page - Fixed an issue where definitions would sometimes wrongly get cut off, leading to weird definitions for items.
Statistics - Your streak now sorts properly before counting, fixing gaps that arose when "fixing" streaks by changing your timezone 👀
Grammar SRS - Fixed an issue with furigana sometimes displaying on fake tokens when it shouldn't, thus giving away the answer.
That's all for now! But in the background we're working on a few exciting things, so keep an eye out for more updates soon!
New Mobile Apps Update - v1.0.7 - N2 Region, Suggest Changes (for GL, RE), & A bunch of bugfixes!
Hi everyone! A new mobile app update has been submitted to the app stores! As of publishing this changelog, the iOS update has been approved, but the Android version is still awaiting review from Google. Edit: The Android version has also been approved!
As usual, you can get the mobile apps through the following links:
iOS:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/MfpPbqCq
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxlabs.marumori
Please note that currently, in order to access the app, you will need a subscription or a lifetime account, as our mobile app is still in early access until we get it on par with the website!
With that out of the way, let's get to the good stuff!
This update brings the following things:
New Features:
The N2 Region has now been implemented in the mobile app as well! This means both areas of the region can be explored, and the two secret easter eggs (not the actual eggs from the easter egg hunt, haha) can be found in the app as well!
Suggest Changes - The suggest changes modal has been implemented for Grammar Lessons and Reading Exercises, meaning you can now give us feedback straight from the app! This functionality will also get implemented for SRS items in the near future. You can access it through the red button near the navbar:
Bugfixes:
SRS - Grammar - Unscramble - Submitting a created sentence right after removing a token (by tapping on it) would cause it to be marked as incorrect, even if the sentence was correct. This has been fixed!
Conjugation Trainer - Fixed an issue where your answer would be marked as incorrect at times, even when correct. This was due to pressing ENTER/submit before "n" gets converted into "ん". (e.g. with "たべませn". If you entered "nn", it would convert before submitting, so it would not cause a problem).
Home - Widgets are now properly center-aligned again
Study Lits - Study Lists are now properly center-aligned again.
SRS - Lessons - Fixed an issue where trailing spaces could lead to your answer being marked as incorrect.
Grammar Lessons - Example Sentences - Fixed an issue where furigana over numbers would sometimes overlap with the numbers.
SRS - Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes see an empty tooltip pop up.
SRS - Grammar - FITB - Fixed an issue where the text would resize after leaving the app and going back to it.
Home - Timeline - The timeline now always refreshes properly.
That's all for now, but expect more mobile app goodness to come very soon!