Hi, I've been practicing my kanji almost nonstop ever since you released the Japanese Alpha yesterday.
Because of that, I've pretty much practiced all the Japanese you have available to practice.

I want to keep going over things again and again, but it just keeps repeating the same few kanji for a bit before telling me I'll need to add more words, but there are no more words to add.

How do I tell it to let me practice everything again? Even the stuff I've already aced?

How about creating a "cram list" ?

That didn't take very long! Nice.

You can do a cram list, but repeatedly overstudying things is usually unnecessary unless you're cramming for a quiz. Better would be to add individual words you want to study via the Queue or to create your own custom list with new stuff that you want to learn.

Or you can wait for us to upload the next Genki textbook in the next couple days.

Well I've added the 'study all kanji from lists' option, so if you want you could do what I'm doing and learn all the kanji for all of Genki I, from the larger vocab lists, or start to anyway. That should keep you busy for a good long time. Writing out 'international student' in kanji alone took me a good bit of time.

To do this, change the setting in the options page, then start adding from the beginning of Genki again. I'll be adding something to explain it better this week I think. And yeah, we'll be doing Genki II soon.

Scott--do you have an ETA for hiragana/katakana?

I'm afraid that's a good ways off. Katakana isn't so much the problem as hiragana. Our stroke recognition software is mainly good at writing with straight lines, ie it's tuned for recognizing Chinese characters. Hiragana is a cursive script, and characters in any language that are similarly cursive wouldn't do well with the system we have. Nick and/or I would have to develop a new system from the ground up, or heavily add more to the current system, in order to make it work. That would take a great many developer hours.

Our theory is, hiragana and katakana are something one learns in the first month or so of Japanese study and used constantly from then on and so are not highly in danger of being forgotten. On the other hand, kanji have to be learned for years and so we focus on teaching those and making learning them efficient. Basically, it's a question of how useful something is versus how much time it would take to build, and hiragana and katakana are not important enough to warrant the time, at least while we've got things like pinyin and definition practice on our to do list.

Sorry about that!

Katakana recognizers might come sooner rather than later; we'll have to see how well they can be jimmied.