For kicks, I’ve enabled a new experimental mode whereby you can see your own squigs after you finish writing a character. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to enable this new mode, then write some characters and check out just what you actually put in there. Try it out!
(Scott points out to me that this shortcut happens to minimize all your windows on some Linux window managers, so if we keep this around, I’ll probably change the shortcut to something else.)
For Chinese, I’ve also added a keyboard shortcut to hear the audio for the current prompt. Just press ‘A’. Faster than clicking the speaker icon, and if you’re trying to train your hearing, you can combine this with hidden pinyin mode to hear the sound before you’ve seen the pinyin.
We’ve recently begun alpha testing the decomps, mnemonics, custom definitions, and starred words. If you want to help test, let me know and I’ll activate the new stuff for you!
There’s some App Engine downtime today at 4PM EDT (GMT-4): you won’t be able to practice, save any changes, or post to the forum for up to one hour. Thanks for your patience.