2024 Yearly Recap (Bunpro Wrapped)

It is hard to believe 2024 is almost over, but that means it is time for the third annual Bunpro Year End Recap!

Your 2024 Recap

This year we included vocab data (if you have been studying vocab on Bunpro)!


It can be easy to get caught up in all your reviews and miss the forest for the trees. Whether you study numerous hours every day, or a few hours a week, the fact that you’ve stuck with learning Japanese is a feat in and of itself. We hope that with this recap you’re able to truly see the great progress you made this year in Bunpro! :tada:

Some food for thought:
Think about any aspect of your learning that you struggled with at the beginning of the year. Whether it was a tough grammar point or struggling to follow an episode of your favorite show in Japanese, it may be worthwhile to revisit those before the end of the year to show yourself just how far you’ve come in such a short time!


It was a ton of fun seeing all of the charts that were posted in the yearly recap threads the past two years, as well as reading what your thoughts on the year were + your future goals, so please continue to do that again this year!

From all of us here at Bunpro, thanks for making 2024 another exciting year for us . Thank you for continuing to use and support us with such passion and enthusiasm year after year.

See you all next year!
良いお年を!
The Bunpro Team :bunprogold:

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The only “year in review” that matters



Now that I’ve actually been to Japan, I have a definite answer for the yen per review question. The answer is BookOff and コンビニ.

While I didn’t get as much accomplished this year as I wanted to, I didn’t do too bad. As always, I’ve made a bunch of ambitious goals for next year. I did a write up of my 2025 language goals on Natively. Wish me luck!

Happy New Year! :fireworks:

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Wow. Learning that many languages concurrently would be impossible for me. I had to put my Korean studies on hold because Japanese was difficult enough.
Your ambition is very impressive. I hope you reach all your 2025 language goals. Good luck.

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Thanks! Studying Korean is more of a “when I have time” thing (as it’s been since I started last year), so my goals are fairly small compared with my Japanese goals. I’m not really “studying” German, but more “reviewing and maintaining” since I’ve been with it for so long (although my knowledge has regressed a bit, it’s still better than my Japanese).

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The review is really lovely to see. Thanks for putting in the effort into making this!

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I started Bunpro in August and have been on the grind since! I’m glad I joined after vocabulary was added to the summary. I’ve found vocabulary to be the most important for comprehension, and it’s nice to see the statistics on that. I can’t wait to see a full year’s worth of progress next year.



I joined Bunpro because I started working in a rural town in Japan with N5 Japanese and felt completely lost. I knew I would have to do everything I could to break down that dang 言葉のかべ! And boy has it helped tremendously. I have a long way to go, but I’m feeling more secure now that I have better footing in the language.
My goal for 2025 is to take the N3 JLPT in December. I want to connect with my friends and coworkers more, so I want to improve my speaking abilities. I neglected WaniKani a lot so my kanji is lacking but I want to be able to read a book in Japanese that doesn’t have any pictures by the end of 2025.
皆さん、今年お疲れ様です!来年もよろしくお願いします!

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The goal was to learn 100% of N5-N3 this year.
I fell a little short and will probably finish the year at 95% of N3 but I can’t say I’m unhappy with the progress I made in just under a year.


Definitely feel like I need to up my review numbers though but to be fair to myself I didn’t start studying vocab on bunpro until last week :sweat_smile:
Gonna kick N2-N1’s butts’ next year :muscle:

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Hello from the UK!

I passed the N5 in the Summer, thanks to BunPro! I move to Egypt for 3 years from this coming September, but then the next move I hope to be to Japan thereafter- and my (optimistic) ambition is to be at N1 level by then (particularly optimistic given I have quite a full-on job, while also doing a Masters, neither using Japanese!). Next up, is the N4 (using BunPro) either December 2025 or July 2026 we shall see!

My current daily Japanese learning tools are:
BunPro for Grammar [using Genki 1/2 alongside for a bit of retro analogue throwback (!)]
WaniKani for Kanji
NativShark and Migaku for Reading/Immersion.

I don’t know if anyone’s ever experienced this: but it’s quite a head-scrambler learning a language that I’m intending to use from 2028, when I’m moving to another different country sooner. My head keeps saying “why aren’t you learning Egyptian Arabic, given you’re going to be living there for 3 years ?!” but I feel somewhere in my gut that Japanese is the language I wish to fully learn, and Japan is the place I would like to be. If my gut is wrong - it is a lot of years to have dedicated to a passtime - but they say we should focus on the journey rather than destination- and I really enjoy the learning process. Some days the work/the reviews feel arduous, but those breakthrough moments feel like a new multiverse dimension is opening up - and that moment when I passed the JLPT N5 was such a moment.

Best of luck, keep going and enjoy the journey to all you fellow language learners :pray:

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pretty nice in my oppinion. i started learning japanese this year, and since then, using sources like anki, wanikani for kanji, and of course this. i dont think if im going too fast or smth, but im okay with this rythm and im sure 2025 will be even better!

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This year I actually started putting my Japanese into practice, and I’m glad to say that I’ve been making steady progress towards my goals. My comprehension of Japanese has improved significantly, and without Bunpro I’m sure I wouldn’t have made half the progress I made this year. I definitely feel confident that I’m at an N3 level right now (I also learn vocab on Anki) which is great since I barely passed the N4 exam this summer. As for my goals next year, I want to finish off my JLPT studies which is probably not the most realistic goal but I love to shoot for the moon and when I fall I enjoy my landing among the stars!
100 hours of Bunpro isn’t too bad but hopefully next year I can shoot for 200 :wink:
Thanks Bunpro team!

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Managed to complete N3 and N2 this year!!!

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Nice year!

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Wait, I thought one year is 365 days how did you study 358 days? :exploding_head:

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Sacrifices had to be made to the Nihongo God for such numbers!

Honestly though, i did a lot of Bunpro on the bus this year. Nice way to fill on dead time

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Anyone else having trouble getting theirs to load?

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By the way, you can see your yearly recap by opening the side menu in the mobile app, and tapping on the “Year Summary” button. :+1:

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It’s great, thanks a lot!

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I was far less active this year than I was last year. I thought I’d manage to be done with N1 by now, but that just didn’t happen:


While I decided to not push new items when I didn’t feel like it, I still did Bunpro everyday (though some days I only remembered after 12–i have Anki set up to start a new day at 4 am, so sometimes I’d forget that Bunpro starts the new day at 12–so I lost my streak a couple of times).

For comparison, these were my 2023 stats:


I didn’t read nearly as much either, but again, I read and did Anki everyday.

Gotta keep grinding!

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That’s my recap.
9k Reviews is a lot but next year I am going to double it (but not give them to next person).
First 9 months of this year I was doing between 3 and 30 reviews, but now I got myself to study more and I do between 30 and 130. I am sad now that studied only 349 days, I missed 9 because of my laziness and 7 because of my trip to Tunisia.
Sadly because of some sort of bug, my vacation mode didn’t work and broke my streak. (I see that status: processing on my report (;´д`)ゞ ).

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Well, I only started in May this year and due to some watery/fountain-stylish troubles in my old apartment and thus moving to a new place, I couldn’t reach my goal to finish N5+N4 grammar (plus I have a very strict setting for failed items, lol).
But to feel a bit better, I’ll just look at the vocab stats and totally ignore that they’re from my WaniKani studies, ehehehe! :crazy_face:


I’ll pick up the pace in 2025, ideally finishing N4 and N3 grammar to a Seasoned level. :muscle:

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