Greetings. I found your superb site thru Hacker News. I tried the demo and was indeed very impressed. What you've achieved here is awesome, keep on with the good work!!

There's just something I couldn't bear: the demo insisted I wrote down the simplified version of love, rather than the traditional one.
I studied Japanese prior to Mandarin Chinese, as a result I tend to prefer traditional characters to simplified ones - I find them more pan-Asian, and, in some instances, more beautiful :P

On the other hand, simplified chars are... well, simpler :P And most of the times, faster to write also.

So, my suggestion/petition is: could you please have your impressive program understand *both* sets of characters? Most of the times I don't care using one set or the other, but for *love*, I think it's a crime to take heart out of it

Just my 2 cents.

You can actually choose between either. ^_^

You can choose to study both, or choose to study specific chars. as simplified and others as traditional. The 'options' pane under vocabulary shows the different possible combinations.

The traditional selection is available with an account. The Try It page is currently giving simplified only (and Chinese only), but it's got a lot more problems than that. It's due for a lot of overhaul and will eventually let you do traditional or Japanese in there, too, as well as having a tutorial built in.

The account is free for two weeks, so check that out; you can also play around with more stuff on the Scratchpad, including putting traditionals on there:
http://www.skritter.com/scratchpad

Glad you dig it, Jose! And yeah, taking the 心 out of 愛 was a bit too much.