Atypical Vocab Usage Feedback

Bunpro
#1

Apologies if this has been brought up or discussed before. So far I’m loving Bunpro as a new member, it’s been fantastic for practice and review.

However some vocab items have common usages and uncommon usages, and naturally I can get the common ones pretty easily but not the uncommon ones. However both instances are bundled under the tracking for that one vocab item.

It’d be nice to reinforce the atypical or uncommon usages without artificially bringing down the marks for the vocab item that I normally get right, and vice versa, I don’t want to artificially inflate my “mastery” of a tough vocab item because I can get the common usage more often.

Is there a way to flag or focus on certain usages of a grammar or vocab item? I’m still learning the ropes on navigating Bunpro so if this is an implementation that’s already live, I’d love to know about it!

On an unrelated note: Would there be plans in the future to perhaps study Japanese idioms or phrases that have a different semantic meaning than their literal meaning? More so than specific words, but set phrases?

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#2

No, there’s no way to separate sentences. If you truly aren’t worried about it and you don’t want it affecting your SRS level, you could always just force the pass. That being said, usually these type of sentences will end up as ghosts and you’ll learn them eventually anyways. These exceptions do appear in real life (I actually find Bunpro does a great job adding these types of sentences).

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#3

Hi there and welcome to the forums! :partying_face:

To answer your first question – the only thing you can currently do is either:

  1. Create Ghosts for specific sentences of a Vocab/Grammar
  2. Create your own Self-Study sentences

We have plans to split up certain Vocab words into multiple ones – with one for each meaning.
E.g. stuff like 上げる vs 揚げる vs 挙げる

On an unrelated note: Would there be plans in the future to perhaps study Japanese idioms or phrases that have a different semantic meaning than their literal meaning? More so than specific words, but set phrases?

No plans of yet, but this is an interesting idea.
Could maybe manually add some as Vocab, or create a Deck out of the existing ones.

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#4

You can’t explicitly search for them as a category, but a lot are already on bunpro as vocab

#5

A deck for this sounds like a great idea. With only N1-5 decks available I feel like the deck feature is being under-utilised tbh.

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