I’ve been doing some Cloze reviews to polish my grammar.
Given the inevitability (and frustration) of synonyms and 2 ways to say the same thing, it might be nice if the “correct, but not quite right” attempts at a grammar review were listed, with their hints beside them. It’s a small UX change that would embrace the frustration, rather than try to avert it.
This could help mitigate a sense of going in circles. When you see a huge list of valid synonyms you’ve tried, it helps visualise how many synonyms you’re guessing from. And where a phrase has many alternative ways of saying to help compare and contrast those methods. It also helps revise those misses too.
For example:
“____ 寝坊したの?” (Answer is また)
Attempt 1 - 再び❌ - Searching for something less formal.
Attempt 2 - もう一度❌ - Searching for something less specific.
Attempt 3 - また✅
Maybe it’s a bit like Wordle in helping you build up clues to the correct answer.
