A Suggestion

brian
 April 20, 2007, 11:08 AM posted in General Discussion

Obviously the V3 bugs/features that are still rolling out need to be addressed first, but this would be nice to see sometime in the future. The ability to search for lessons via the transcript text. EG I could type in '没关系' and have a list of all lessons containing that phrase thrown back at me.

I understand that the 'explore vocab' option falls along similar lines to this, but as I understand it that only works for words that are already in your word bank.

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henning
 April 20, 2007, 11:13 AM

Brian, amazingly that works. Just tried that out after a post from Lantian on the Blog. The result for 没关系: Lessons that include ‘没关系’ include: Newbie - Basic Greetings Elementary - How embarrassing! Newbie - Dialect Party Mix Newbie - A Late Knock Newbie - I would like to buy a pen Newbie - I can't sing Newbie - Useful Phrases #2

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John
 April 20, 2007, 01:22 PM

Yeah, this is the kind of stuff that the V3 architecture enables us to do. As we amass a huge amount of data, we really do need more sophisticated tools for sorting through it. Maybe we can't implement new stuff right away, but keep the suggestions coming... I can't wait until we get past the "cleanup" stage and back into the "innovation" stage....

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brian
 April 21, 2007, 01:37 AM

Ah... just gave it a try again and see that it works! Not sure why I wasn't getting any results earlier... but nonetheless, a very nice addition to V3!

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nurdle
 April 21, 2007, 06:19 AM

I'm a new user of the CPod premium features (just after the launch of V3, how lucky am I?) and I really appreciate the breadth and depth of the extra materials. I had a suggestion about games... I've seen somewhere (I think it might have been an old Chinese textbook) a crossword puzzle that used entire sentences in characters, with English translation or Pinyin under "Across" and "Down" - this was such a cool game! Do you think you guys could create something like this from your dialogues or expansion phrases?

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brian
 May 11, 2007, 01:26 AM

Another suggestion - being able to sort in the bookmarked lessons page. I.E. "View only bookmarked" or "View only Studied" or something along these lines. I like that my studied lessons remain in this list for future review, but I'd prefer if they were made distinct from the merely bookmarked or scheduled ones.