You have mastered your language but have no idea what to do with it, why not give a music career a shoot;-)

How about a 老外 version of gagnamn style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7Dp5X5WOf2Q

For our Japanese learners, believe it or not but there is a market for even this sort of music. Yes, he is a boy and he is from Sweden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=INKCPOQL98c&feature=endscreen

Ha, cool thanks man. That laowai style video is great! The guy seems pretty cool too. More videos of him on youtube. And the video is on youku also. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDYwMTg3ODQ0.html

Thanks for sharing Mandarinboy

Yechan, what is up with your stats? You have studied more characters than there are Unicode points, and you have done so with a rate of 89 characters per minute, and that is not even counting the compound words. Something smells fishy.

Chinese Stats
Time Spent 37 hours
Characters 197466 learned
Words 197268 learned

yechan831 was an early iOS app alpha tester and his progress stats suffered the consequences!

yechan831, if you want to de-疯狂 your stats, we could run the progress recalculator on them.

Progress recalculator? Intriguing! How does it work?

It looks at all the items that actually exist for your account and resets your progress totals based on those. We hid it because it creates a discontinuity between your old progress stats and the new, recalculated ones, and this was freaking people out, even in the case where the changes were small.

Sometimes it was needed because of massive iOS progress bugs, like above. Other times, an accumulation of small imprecisions due to bugs we've now fixed eventually led to substantial drift over time. As soon as I fix one more bug and turn the batched item saving back on, we're hoping the progress stats won't have any inaccuracy going forward.

Can it help to reset the progress of characters we’ve removed from the studies? I discontinued studying the simplified characters and would like to 'forget' them so I can see a more accurate overall retention rate.

That it wouldn't do, since those items are still around, just not active. Note that your overall retention rate since you turned off simplified characters would just be based off of the traditional reviews you do--it's only the retention rate before you made the switch that includes those simplified reviews.

Oh, alrighty then!
Can we somehow see which words are inactive but still around?

Sorry for hijacking the thread, Mandarinboy

I don't think there's some easy way for you to do it. Are you interested in this? No item is ever deleted unless you nuke, so any items for words in lists that you used to study but removed, or in styles/parts that you don't study any more, or that you've banned, will still exist, waiting for you to re-add them.

It could be interesting. Maybe I can find some lost gems I’d like to re-add. I thought it’d be feasible since you guys created the "Old Words" lists after the big list reorganization a while back, but if it’s not, it’s not a big deal.

I just checked it out and it seems like there are 1262 of these for your Japanese and 2432 for your Chinese. A lot to look through. Are you still interested in the list?

Great, thanks! Can you send me the list or spreadsheet per email?