If you're studying Chinese, it's now possible to ignore spaces when testing on Pinyin! 🙂
Different Chinese courses tend to take different approaches to writing pinyin. For example, there are three main ways to write the Pinyin for 你好老师：
- Add a space between every character's pinyin: "ni3 hao3 lao3 shi1"
- Don't add any spaces at all: "ni3hao3lao3shi1"
- Add spaces between "words" but not between the individual characters in a word: "ni3hao3 lao3shi1"
I've just added a new "Ignore spaces in pinyin" setting that makes it so that spaces are totally ignored when testing on Pinyin. With this setting turned on, then no matter what the course wrote, "ni3 hao3 lao3 shi1", "ni3hao3hao3shi1", and "ni3hao3 lao3shi1" would all be counted as correct! 🙂
This setting is enabled by default and can be changed on the "My account" page:
I've enabled this for Chinese, because that's what I'm familiar with, but I'd also be happy to enable this for pronunciation columns in other languages, if it makes sense. If anyone is studying another language with pronunciation columns, please let me know your thoughts on this! 🙂 For example, I have a feeling that an option like this this might make sense for Japanese.
