harsh-harlequin•8mo ago
Counting Known Words Twice Kana + Kanji
Hello! New Migaku user here. I am importing my known words into the known words section, and are noticing that Kana only words ex (一人で) and that same word written with kana only (ひとりで) Are counting as two known words. Or if we go with a much more uncommon word in kanji ex. (有難う) vs (ありがとう).
Should I be only inputting one of the two as known? Or does this “technically” count as 2 words being known. I just want to be sure I am being honest with my known word count as I am moving through my immersion and measuring my progress.
Thanks
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unwilling-turquoise•8mo ago
@SoggyNachos
有難う and ありがとう are treated as separate words in the current parser. I assume this is the case for most or all kanji/kana pairs.
Should I be only inputting one of the two as known?
I just want to be sure I am being honest with my known word count as I am moving through my immersion and measuring my progress.I think you should mark both known. Why? Words known is simply a proxy for your progress. It also has the tangible benefit of making unknowns more noticeable and will make your sentence mining experience easier. There's a good argument that these should be treated as separate, which is that a learner could very well understand ありがとう and not 有難う. There is no hard and fast definition for a word. Distinct word forms is never perfect as it is almost always different from distinct word meanings (senses). E.g. an English learner may know to "fish" as in they know it refers to the aquatic lifeform, and they may also know it can be used as a verb meaning to catch fish. They still might not know that it can mean:
search, typically by groping or feeling for something concealed."he fished for his registration certificate and held it up to the policeman's flashlight"
try subtly or deviously to elicit a response or some information from someone."I was not fishing for compliments"
pull or take something out of water or a container."the body of a woman had been fished out of the river" All this to say, most people are not aware of the complexity of words and vocabulary knowledge. There's no reason to worry or feel bad about your known words being inaccurate by marking multiple forms of a word as known. Your word known count is always inaccurate.
harsh-harlequinOP•8mo ago
This makes perfect sense, thank you!
unwilling-turquoise•8mo ago
yw!