Vocabulary not showing up in lessons

[phil]

@damia

are marked as HSK 7-9+ so that might be the reason I’m not getting its lesson

You would be correct here are some docs on how we select lessons.

Beyond the above qualifiers, like HSK level and number of words already learned per character, one also needs to become familiar with each character within the word.

So looking on my side of things, not all of the characters are familiar for the examples chosen

But as for 複雜 , this is indeed a bug – the HSK level of this word isn’t correct as 複 duplicate is currently reported to be HSK7-9+. I’ve filed a note to fix this

Still, I see there’s an issue when it comes to word access/number of words I can see us doing some changes to the word selection algorithm soon as discussed in:

Feature request: set daily word limit

Thank you for clarifying your philosophy. I completely share your view on words. Most are swiftly learned through context, at least at my beginner level. In contrast to Japanese, words– mostly– don’t carry essential pronunciation information, so they don’t seem like a core necessity for Hanzi acquisition. I mistakenly left it in this paragraph (building on a different point), which might look like I’m disputing the basic merit of word study. I’d discard it, but I can’t seem to find the edi…

A great visual improvement we could make is to “grey out” the characters you’ve not yet learned, or have not yet become familiar with, otherwise one has no way of knowing whether the character/word is available for lessons. I can definitely see us implementing that!