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"You don't have enough words selected to study"?!

b4kemono   September 27th, 2014 5:12a.m.

Hi, I'm getting this error even though my list custom list "HeisigLesson44" contains 8 items and it's diverse.

I don't understand how I could get this working. Could this be made a bit more simple? Some usability tweaks?

I know how to write most Heisig characters but I just want to practise some of them. I don't want to go through 1000 easy characters.

b4kemono   September 27th, 2014 5:17a.m.

Sorry I was meaning to send this to the support. I didn't realize it was going to the forum. I got misled by the "contact us directly", right on top of the form. But I guess since it's weekend, Skritter admins might not be working, so hopefully someone will help me with this during the weekend. Thanks for the (possible) help.

Puffton   September 28th, 2014 3:41p.m.

The staff are reading the forum too, so I think you'll be OK :)

I might have the same problem with custom lists and the advanced study mode. It says I need to practice the kanji before I "review" them. This is highly annoying, because I strictly use Skritter for reviewing custom lists of kanji - the reading and definitions are just a big hassle causing many extra clicks to get rid of.

I've reported this issue previously, but in the past year seen no fix for it. What I'm asking for is that I should be able to determine myself if I'm mature enough for writing practice in the advanced study mode, on my custom lists. That is, without having to spend hours in the regular study mode first.

ジェレミー (Jeremy)   September 29th, 2014 1:37p.m.

@b4kemono Are you still getting this message for your HeisigLesson44 list? I've tested single studying this on your account but it appears to be loading correctly, at least on my end.

@Puffton If you want to separate the writing prompts from the rest, there's a good workaround: you could remix the list creating a duplicate, then set one of the copies to writing only, and the other copy with writing prompts disabled. You can change which parts for study are enabled for a list itself by going to the list's page (clicking it's name), and then clicking "Change study settings".

b4kemono   September 30th, 2014 4:05a.m.

Thanks for the help Puffton and Jeremy. Now I got it working. It started testing reading. I had to write the pinyin or something. I'm not doing that at this point of my studies. At least not much. I tried to change it to testing writing only in the settings, changing the settings in the area where you see the list of the characters of my HeisigLesson44 but it did not change into writing only. I succeeded in changing the settings only inside the study session, changing the settings in the right up corner.

I guess I will get used to these settings. I don't if there would be a way to make the usability of the webpage clearer. English is not my mother tongue which complicates things a bit also for me.

BTW I'm studying now Mandarin from the Glossika course and Assimil.

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