It'll only show the furigana if you didn't know the kanji to begin with. So if you have already studied that kanji (in this case, 上) or marked it as known, it's not going to show the furigana because it wants you to recognize and understand the kanji.
It'll work for example with...上達(じょうたつ). If you only know the first kanji, it'll show that in kanji, and the second will be kanji with furigana.
I'm still thinking about the best way to present all this info so the feature makes the most sense, but it still needs a good bit of work.
It makes sense, but it's a bit overwhelming in the beginning.
In my case, I gathered a list of the 30 or 40 Kanji's I encountered the most in my trip in Japan and decided to study them once all in a go, so it replaced a lot of furigana in many words I know.
Why not allow to configure at which level of proficiency in a kanji does the furigana stop showing up?
People could configure that it'll stop as soon as you study it "same as now", and they could configure that at level 6 of proficiency or 9 "random levels", it'd stop showing furigana.
Another idea I have in mind would be to have the ability to toggle furigana on click? Although that might be a bit more of a crutch, so you could lower the percentage awarded towards mastery?
That's another layer of complexity that I am not sure most users will benefit from (alongside the frustration/confusion that comes with any extra layer of settings).
I do not plan on adding furigana to click - it's a quiz system, so you either know it or you don't. The mastery system doesn't allow "slices" of mastery like that, and in the end, the learner couldn't recall the kanji, so at least for that study vector, they were not able to recall it (woo, that was a lot of commas).
I'm with Heatmanofurioso on this that ability to show it on click. I get what you're saying too マイコー but it's not black and white in my mind as you say "you either know it or you don't". The reason is when the question is a multiple choice in a sentence like in this example here (not best example, still works to explain).
I know what the kanji generally means as I've studied it a few times, but the problem is sometimes I do not fully remember what's under that kanji in terms of spelling and I need to change it to a different form. If I don't remember the spelling then I have an increase chance of guessing wrong because I can't sound it out. Since I have gotten it wrong, no progress is made because according to Renshuu, I didn't learn "Polite, past form of verb". No, I know how to change things to polite past form of a verb just not this specific one lol.
Remembering the spellings of 3k common kanji is going to take years, going to take even longer if when I forget I can't get a little bit of help. When there's kanji like 生 and 行 that have like what 5 something common spellings hard to know right now what spelling is being hidden.
I guess maybe as I get more fluent this isn't as much of an issue but right now it's literally the one of the top things that frustrate me on those quizzes. It's not a spelling quiz of the kanji at the moment, its a quiz of if I know how to transform it into the polite past form. Maybe instead for these quizzes change this up and remove the kanji. Instead for lets say "polite, past form of verb" quiz showcase the casual non-past form: "ならう". Like place that over the blank line and say change this form. It's what we do on my Japanese language school class tests.
Sorry this became long reply hope this makes sense. Maybe I just need to get better at Japanese and it won't matter anymore.
I appreciate you taking the time to leave such detailed thoughts!
This is not a direct response, but it might be worth your time to check out the conjugation schedules we have built (Manage your Schedules > All Schedules). They *are* split out based on verb endings, so while it doesn't address the points you are bringing up in a general sense, they may help you somewhat on the conjugation front.
I appreciate you taking the time to leave such detailed thoughts!
This is not a direct response, but it might be worth your time to check out the conjugation schedules we have built (Manage your Schedules > All Schedules). They *are* split out based on verb endings, so while it doesn't address the points you are bringing up in a general sense, they may help you somewhat on the conjugation front.
I didn't notice these somehow. Great addition! 有難う
