Hi,
I came to realise that it would be useful to finally start learning reading traditional characters. But to have to write them would be unduly time-consuming.

Can I somehow make Skritter let me study definitions of traditional characters, but definitions alone? Or would I have to manually ban all but definition for traditional (witch sadly isn't possible in the App)?

I saw something on that matter in some old thread, but didn't really get it. Is there a way to add traditional definitions for all characters I've already been studying in simplified form?

Maybe it would be worth implementing such mode. I suspect I'm not the only one, who wants to learn simplified, but still be able to recognize traditional.

In the future I'd also like to use Skritter to learn traditional (characters only, not words), but not write it.

I've talked about this before - I agree that this would be a really nice feature. Really useful too.

Sadly, Skritter doesn't know the difference between reading Traditional and reading Simplified, and so it doesn't make a difference between the progresses of the two.

Which means that when a flashcard for pinyin is due, Skritter decides to show it to you in Simplified or Traditional at random. Same for definitions.

Edit: Hey, three cat avatars in a row :)

The current best plan is to make it so that both simplified and traditional are shown in the prompt area (outside the writing square) on the study page. But we need to get a study page redesign done before we have room for it.

OK, but is there at least possibility to add all the traditional counterparts of characters I know? I'd bear to manually ban down all except "definition" for them.

Come on, Nick, can't anything be done? What are few sleepless nights spent coding compared to the happiness of millions :>

I really like this idea of being able to just study the readings of the traditional characters. I really don't need to learn to write them, but getting quizzed on the definitions would be great.

I agree this would be a great feature. Sounds like it's tough to implement though.

You could:

1) Make a list of all the words for which you wanted traditional definitions and/or readings (Export My Words if you want it for everything)
2) Pause all your other lists (Reviewing Words From)
3) Enable traditional (or both)
4) Disable writing and tones
5) Study through the list until you get to the end
6) Undo settings: back to simplified, re-enable writing and tones, re-add-from your other lists

One of the features we have on the list (but not near the top) is a way to choose which parts you're studying on a list-by-list basis. That would change step 4), but I guess it wouldn't make this particular process much easier. It's possible that we could add list-specific simp/trad to that as well, in addition to the list-specific part selection.

@Nick: So if we followed this process, then once we got all the way through the list once, from then on would we also get scheduled definition reviews in both simplified and traditional?

Correct.

Sounds good, thanks.