A review style that has you input FULL sentences

Bunpro
#1

I have been loving Bunpro so far but I think it would be great to add a review style in addition to the already existing options that has you fill in the FULL sentence. I know it might be hard based on the vocab you know vs what you do not know, but I think it would be a cool option to add along with the other revoiew options.

Something where it would ask you to write the FULL sentence “It would be better to sleep” in Japanese.

Does the feature already exist and I just don’t know where to find it?

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#2

I agree. I have been looking around for this sort of thing, but it would be great if it was available in the one app.

#3

I think speechling has something like this?

I don’t know if this is what you were looking for, or if you meant you wanted to translate sentences.

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#4

I agree this would be cool. I think the obstacle for implementation of something like this would be flexibility of grammar and the ability of BunPro to assess correct/ incorrect answers at a whole-sentence level.

It seems for single words there’s likely already some large amount of manual input from Devs for determining correct/ incorrect/ viable (but not intended) answers. At a sentence level, these viable answers probably multiply out to make this a tough feature.

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#5

The two main challenges with this:

  1. It’s effectively impossible to give an objective grading on how correct a translation is, unless an AI was used.
  2. There are many correct ways to translate a sentence. Translation is an art form, and without a lot of additional context, it would be hard to explore all meaningful variations of translations for learning.