Asking for Guidance

Bunpro
#1

Hello Bunpro peeps,

I would like to ask for a guidance for Bunpro’s who are now currently living in Japan and continuously studying Japanese.

I would like first to start with my short introduction. I’m He/28 decided and currently living in Nagoya, Japan. I am a Japanese national who grew up overseas and now decided to look for an opportunity here. Recently graduate as BS Computer Engineering and looking for tech Job here but as i scan and reading the job description their requirement is at least N3 or above. If you ask my Japanese proficiency I’m currently confidently speak and converse Japanese kinda like in daily conversation level but i can say that i sometimes say in a not grammatically structured. Also i have a 0 kanji stock knowledge so whenever i ready text that has Kanji i can’t even understand at all unless it’s hiragana or katakana.

Right now im looking for a learning material and someone suggested me Bunpro on a discord community. I would like to ask if it’s worth it ??

Also, for someone same case as me do you have any suggestion or recommendation for me. I really want to cope up and pursue my passion on tech but i need first to surpass the barrier of the language.

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#2

For reading I’d say there’s two main ways people go about it, at least in internet Japanese learning communities. The first is to just focus on the words themselves and drill vocab. Bunpro can help with that, if you use the J->E review options. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a built in way to test how well you can read the word, but you can turn off furigana and tap the word to reveal them if you aren’t sure. Another option would be to get one of the many premade Anki decks with a curated list of common words and use that.

The second is to learn the kanji themselves. There are a number of apps, websites, and Anki decks built for this. I think WaniKani is still the most popular of these, but it teaches them based on visual simplicity, which means you don’t learn some of the most common Kanji for months.

I personally recommend studying the Kanji, and against relying just on vocab. It’s a bit more work, but it makes things just so much easier.

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#3

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation — it really helped me understand. I think I’ll follow your recommendation and start studying kanji seriously instead of relying only on vocab. It might take more effort at the beginning, but if it makes reading easier and helps me progress faster.! Currently, Im starting and i guess this is the one i needed content.

Thank you again for your message, and Let’s keep learning together

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#4

I like Bunpros interface so much more than Anki, I also used Quizlet. But I like how Bunpro has practice N level tests.
I think Bunpro plus the Genki Textbooks and Remembering the Kanji Book are good to combine.
I also use Duolingo to practice kanji everyday. I do 1 lesson, usually takes 30 seconds for the Kanji lesson but Im doing the same kanjis over and over and over so its easy for me to remember. I will say im almost done with Section 4 in Duolingo so I have way more Kanji to study verses starting from scratch.
I didn’t like WaniKani because living in Japan I already knew some basic Kanji and the way it was introducing kanji with me was throwing me off and too slow.

Also some friends of mine don’t have N level tests but are conversational and they’ve said as long as you demonstrate that you can communicate well in Japanese they’ll hire you.