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March 19, 2023

More SRS Improvements (Hotkeys, Audio in Lightning Mode) And More!

Here we go again! This time we've got some additional SRS improvements like hotkeys, and audio autoplay in lightning mode, but also things like proper thumbnails when sharing MM links, loading screens for adventure, and a bunch of high-priority bug fixes!

Let's get into it:

New Features:

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    SRS Lessons - You can now go back and forth between lessons with the arrow keys (left / right).

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    SRS Lessons & Reviews - Hotkeys have been implemented! You can now use the following hotkeys (and customize them on the settings page):

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      Open Suggestions Modal: S

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      Unblur Spoilers: U

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      Play Audio: R

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      Suspend Item: No Default Hotkey

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      Undo: BACK_SPACE

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    SRS Lessons (Quiz) & Reviews - Audio now continues playing when moving on to the next item

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    SRS Lessons (Quiz) & Reviews - Audio will now autoplay when correctly answering a (vocabulary) reading layout with lightning mode enabled. Meaning you will hear the pronunciation after answer submission.

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    Furigana - Furigana selection has been disabled, which means that copying a sentence will no longer wrongly add the furigana in.

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    Grammar Lessons & Reading Exercises - Furigana size has been increased a little bit.

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    Manage Study List Items - The "Level" column is now sortable

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    Adventure Overworld - Now has a loading screen

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    Adventure Regions - Now have loading screens

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    Unregistered users can now view more parts of the MM dashboard, including the adventure pages, excerpts of grammar lessons & reading exercises.

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    SEO & Sharing link improvements - Sharing a MM link will now have a proper title, description, and a dynamic thumbnail to match whatever you might be linking to (e.g. a Grammar Lesson).

Bug Fixes:

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    Adventure - The side-menu list will now properly show green checkmarks for all completed items.

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    MaruMori will no longer redirect you to /locked if you are not logged in

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    MaruMori will now properly refresh your session in the background, meaning no more random /locked redirects/logouts!

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    SRS - Now properly ranks items down once if below SRS level 5, twice if level 5 or above when submitting a wrong answer.

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    SRS Lessons - Hitting ENTER after clicking the next lesson button would result in it skipping a lesson. This has been fixed.

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    Study Lists - Setting Lessons Per Day to 0 will no longer give 10 lessons the next day.

March 13, 2023

Small update: new artwork!

Small but very fun new update today:

We've got new artwork for the overworld and regions. Namely a new arrow and three new cursor pointers!

"Clickable" cursor:

Default cursor:

"Dragging" cursor

We've also got new level tiles coming along soon, as well as other artwork that we'll tell more about in the future!

March 9, 2023

SRS Reordering, Study List Deletion and many improvements and bug fixes!

Time for another pretty big dev update! This time we focused on a few highly requested smaller features and things that were on our priority to-do lists.

First up, Reorder settings for your SRS Reviews! You can now sort your reviews just the way you like them:

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    Randomly (default)

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    Oldest First

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    Newest First

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    Lowest Level First

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    Highest Level First

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    Meanings Layouts First

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    Readings Layouts First

Next to that, you can also choose to keep item siblings together! This means you will get all item layouts before moving on to the next review item, letting you quickly finish items. This setting is combinable with the above reorder settings too!

You can access these settings by clicking on the gear button next to the lightning mode button in the top-right during reviews:

Next up are a bunch of new features and improvements:

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    Study Lists - You can now Remove Study Lists from your account. Just open the Edit Study List modal and click the Delete button to delete it. Easy as pie! Note that you can only remove your personal study lists or premade lists.

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    Study Lists - Manage Items - This page now also shows your SRS level for each item you learned so far!

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    Study Lists - Manage Items - This page now shows a loader while data is being grabbed from the server

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    SRS - Vocabulary - The All Definitions tab now shows detailed extra information next to the definitions, similar to the dictionary pages.

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    SRS - Vocabulary - Now shows Part Of Speech information on the Primary tab

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    SRS - Vocabulary - Now shows which kanji are contained in the vocabulary. Click on them to open a new browser tab with their corresponding dictionary entry.

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    SRS - Vocabulary - Spoiler blur is now off by default for kana-only items (as there is no other layout to spoil).

Bugfixes:

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    Main Study List - Fixed incorrect lesson order on some new additions

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    Main Study List - Resolved an issue with ghost lessons

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    SRS Reviews & Lessons Quiz - Items with "..." or similar in their meanings are now correctly validated when quizzed.

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    SRS Reviews & Lessons Quiz - Fixed an issue with being unable to answer with just the value without the parentheses. Meaning answering "mandarin" for "mandarin (citrus fruit)" will now properly work again.

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    SRS Reviews & Lessons - Lightning mode no longer breaks the ENTER key from advancing through the modals (finished lessons, quiz, next batch, etc).

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    Study Lists - You can now set a study list to 0 lessons per day again.

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    Study Lists - You can no longer set negative values for the lessons per day setting.

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    SRS & other inputs on the website - Sometimes, browsers would suddenly suggest filling in your details in unrelated inputs on the website. This should be fixed now.

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    SRS Reviews - Fixed an issue where the results screen would show incorrect (visual-only) information if you answered an item wrong in a previous session, then finished the review (correctly) in a new session.

March 6, 2023

Main Study List (Unlocks) Major Overhaul Part 1 + New Lower Intermediate Content

Hey all!

We've got exciting news today! We've been overhauling the main study list unlocks which you get by unlocking vocabulary & kanji in the adventure regions.

We've removed items we felt were odd, unfitting for the level it is in, or deemed redundant. But we've also been adding a lot of new Vocabulary! We feel these additions make for a more well-rounded course.

This is the first batch of major changes for the main study list, we've got a lot more on the way as we work through the whole list. All changes can be viewed down below.

Because we've been removing items, we've also added a new Study List for you to grab, which contains all removed items. The reason we've added this list is so that your reviews still have a home, now that they might have been removed from your main study list. But grabbing it is completely optional!

Note that all additions have automatically been added to your main Study List, based on whether you already unlocked the batch it is in or not. So no need to go back and unlocks things manually!

Next to this, we've also added a new batch of Lower Intermediate content. As usual, you can find 7 new levels in the groovy underwater region.

Check out our main study list changes below:

Replacements:

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    Replaced all Vocabulary with not-yet-learned kanji to their kana-only forms

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    Replaced ページ with たべる in level 2

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    Replaced つける with なまえ in level 2

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    Replaced すぐ with また in level 2

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    Replaced ゆっくり with のむ in level 2

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    Replaced 大みそか with いく in level 3

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    Replaced 日 (Sunday) with 日 (Sun) in level 3

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    Replaced 日ごろ with 日々 in level 3

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    Replaced さん with 中 (Middle) in level 3

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    Replaced 一月 (One Month) with 一月 (January) in level 3

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    Replaced 人出 with 日の出 in level 4

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    Replaced 本日 with 日本人 in level 4

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    Replaced 見かけ with 見た目 in level 5

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    Replaced コンピューター with パソコン in level 5

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    Replaced テレビゲーム with ゲーム in level 6

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    Replaced 半月 (Half Moon) with 半月 (Half Month) in level 6

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    Replaced おじいちゃん with おじいさん in level 6

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    Replaced 何 (なん) with 何 (なに) in level 6

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    Replaced 出来る with できる in level 7

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    Replaced 夜空 with 夜中 in level 10

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    Replaced 予言 (wrong entry) with 予言 (correct entry) in level 17

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    Replaced 要 with 要る in level 24

Additions:

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    Added 人 to level 3

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    Added 口コミ to level 3

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    Added 人口 to level 3

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    Added 〜山 to level 4

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    Added 火山 to level 4

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    Added 女の人 to level 4

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    Added 女子 to level 4

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    Added 少々 to level 4

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    Added 日本 to level 4

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    Added 子ども to level 4

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    Added 上る to level 4

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    Added 先日 to level 4

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    Added 年中 to level 5

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    Added 父の日 to level 5

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    Added 母の日 to level 5

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    Added 王子 to level 8

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    Added 中国 to level 8

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    Added 不足 to level 8

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    Added 不正 to level 8

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    Added 時 to level 8

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    Added 高校 to level 8

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    Added 今夜 to level 10

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    Added 色々 to level 10

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    Added 夜明け to level 10

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    Added 思う to level 11

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    Added 日本語 to level 12

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    Added 歩道 to level 13

Removals:

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    Removed そうですね from level 3

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    Removed 入り口 from level 4

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    Removed お子さん from level 4

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    Removed ごろ from level 5

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    Removed お目にかかる from level 5

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    Removed よそ見 from level 5

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    Removed サーフィン from level 6

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    Removed 大手 from level 6

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    Removed すごく from level 6

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    Removed ディーブイディー from level 6

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    Removed 大正 from level 6

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    Removed 何べん from level 6

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    Removed 眼鏡をかける from level 6

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    Removed 言づける from level 6

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    Removed 未 from level 6

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    Removed 行き来 from level 7

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    Removed 休校 from level 7

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    Removed 聞かす from level 7

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    Removed 元日 from level 7

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    Removed お中元 from level 7

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    Removed 長さ from level 7

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    Removed 長らく from level 7

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    Removed 学長 from level 7

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    Removed 出前 from level 7

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    Removed 歌舞伎 from level 8

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    Removed 早まる from level 8

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    Removed 人名 from level 8

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    Removed 大国 from level 8

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    Removed 本国 from level 8

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    Removed 国々 from level 8

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    Removed 後方 from level 8

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    Removed 兄さん from level 8

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    Removed 父兄 from level 8

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    Removed 空ける from level 9

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    Removed 自ら from level 9

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    Removed 円高 from level 9

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    Removed 入門 from level 9

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    Removed 古本 from level 10

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    Removed いろいろ from level 10

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    Removed 月夜 from level 10

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    Removed 知らず知らず from level 10

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    Removed 知れる from level 10

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    Removed 小売店 from level 10

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    Removed 昨夜 from level 10

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    Removed 思いがけない from level 11

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    Removed 思い切って from level 11

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    Removed ビデオカメラ from level 11

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    Removed ホワイトデー from level 11

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    Removed 字引 from level 11

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    Removed 主 from level 11

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    Removed 姉さん from level 11

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    Removed 金もうけ from level 11

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    Removed 家内 from level 11

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    Removed 海上 from level 11

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    Removed 当分 from level 12

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    Removed アイロンをかける from level 12

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    Removed 紙くず from level 12

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    Removed お医者さん from level 12

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    Removed 歩行者天国 from level 12

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    Removed によると from level 13

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    Removed 見物人 from level 13

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    Removed 物知り from level 13

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    Removed 週休 from level 13

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    Removed この度 from level 14

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    Removed 持てる from level 14

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    Removed 出来るだけ from level 89

Kanji Primary Readings:

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    Changed primary reading of 上 to じょう

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    Changed primary reading of 分 to ふん

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    Changed primary reading of 食 to しょく

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    Changed primary reading of 兄 to きょう

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    Changed primary reading of 弟 to おとうと

Meaning Changes:

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    Changed primary meaning of 父 to (one's own) father

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    Changed primary meaning of 母 to (one's own) mother

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    Changed primary meaning of 半分 to half (of something)

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    Changed primary meaning of ううん to Nope

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    Changed primary meaning of 兄 to (one's own) older brother

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    Changed primary meaning of サボる to to skip school

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    Changed primary meaning of みかん to mandarin (citrus fruit)

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    Changed primary meaning of 引く to to pull; to subtract; to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)

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    Changed primary meaning of 姉 to (one's own) older sister

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    Changed primary meaning of クラブ to nightclub; school club

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    Changed primary meaning of 白紙 to blank paper

February 24, 2023

Our first minigame, tutorials & knowledge articles and Timezones!

Time for yet another update! This one has been brooding for a while, but we really wanted to double-test everything before putting it live.

Introducing our first mini-game

We've added Wordle!

For those unfamiliar with Wordle, it's a game where you have to guess the correct word with a limited amount of tries, and each character you input can either be correct, show a hint or be completely incorrect (not used at all).

And it comes in two difficulties: 4-characters and 5-characters. New daily Wordles are unlocked at midnight depending on your timezone setting.

Here are a few screenshots to give you an idea of how it works:

Desktop (4-characters difficulty):

Mobile:

5-characters:

Can you guess the correct words? Give it a try and earn some experience for your user level while at it!

Onboarding & Knowledge Base Widget

We've also introduced a new widget on the page which will help you start your journey with MaruMori. This widget automatically pops up with interactive tutorials when you first do certain actions (like the first time you arrive on the overworld, or when you unlock a batch of Vocabulary and Kanji).

But next to that, it also acts as a knowledge base! If you've got any questions about MM, like how to use a certain feature or do certain things, you can just click on the button and it will show you a list of knowledge-base articles!

The first tutorial:

We've added a few articles to start with but will be filling it up with more information in the coming weeks and whenever we release new features.

We hope that these bite-sized articles will be able to answer most questions that (new) users have.

If you don't wish to see it, just click the "x" next to the button and it will hide at the side of the page:

Time-zone Setting

Next to this, we also have exciting news for those in time zones other than London (our server time). Which is likely most of you!

The timezone setting is now taken into account for everything on the website. This means that your daily lessons now unlock at your midnight, your streak gets updated correctly if your timezone is already on the next day and things like the daily vocabulary, kanji, and wordles also unlock based on your timezone!

That's all for today! But look forward to a few new things coming very soon! We have a lot of things cooking in the oven right now 😁