Toggle pinyin option

[ghost]

Would be cool to implement a "Show Pinyin" button. I personally find it distracting to have the characters under the pinyin as I don't learn with pinyin but by sound. If it could be a toggle button one could still see the pinyin but it wouldn't be the first thing one sees.

[Kvaibhav01]

@yaoberh can you elaborate on the issue?

[ghost]

It's not an issue. Pretty simple actually. Put a toggle button son pinyin can be shown if necessary but it's not there when you see the word. It's pretty distracting to see the pronunciation for those of us who don't use pinyin to learn chinese.

[jayehernandez]

Hey @yaoberh! I just searched and pinyin seems to be the official romanization for Chinese. We can definitely add a "Hide Romanization" checkbox in the options menu so that it's a catch all for all the different languages. Would you like to work on this, or can I open it up to whoever wants to do so?

[ghost]

I know it's the official romanization but nonetheless it's a confusing and unintuitive method of learning chinese. Many people prefer to learn by sound or Bopomofo (Taiwan) as I do myself. It's much better to learn this way as you don't learn by reading romanizations of characters but the characters directly. You also acquire the sounds by listening and not by seeing a letter with a tone which I find stupid. I'm not a developer so yeah, open it up to whoever can! Thanks :)

[bhavinip]

Hello! Would it be possible to be assigned to this issue! This extension is really cool, and I would love to contribute. I have taken several years of Chinese and am a Computer Science major! Thank you!

[jayehernandez]

Hey @bhavinip sorry for the late revert! I just put this repo in vacation mode as I currently don't have the capacity to maintain it for now. I'll let you know when I revert it back. Thank you!