Bunpro Audio - January 26, 2021 Update!

[Pushindawood]

@s1212z

Should this audio be attached to reviews?

Yes, you should be hearing the audio from the example sentences in Reviews. This should be true for both the newly added audio and the older recordings. We are not sure what might be preventing it from playing on your end. Do you have Bunny Mode activated? How about autoplay? The next time you get an N3 review question that should have a recording associated with it (the example sentences have audio) without any audio, would you mind taking a screenshot and reporting it here? Cheers!

@walkerranger Thank you for drawing this to our attention! I have straightened out the audio for べつにない. Cheers!

[s1212z]

I’ve yet to reproduce it, perhaps I was outside the range of added audio. I only had one review today was within the new audio additions and it worked as expected.

[Kappa420]

So afaik some new audio has been added, right? The N5 and N4 reviews give me the old audio while the newly started N3 reviews give me no audio at all (despite the new audio being available to listen to in the example sentences of the grammar point)
Clicking on the little play arrow during reviewing doesn’t do anything

[Asher]

We are currently not redoing N4 and N5 until we finish all the newer content. As for the new audio not playing, I am not sure what the problem is there

[Asher]

Hey guys, just giving you a heads up that we are still busy recording (currently have about 50 grammar points that I am going through), but because the naming takes a buttload of time there has been a short delay due to me getting home from work most days at midnight and just not having the energy to name the files… lazy on my part but I am doing bits and pieces where I can!

In saying that, if anyone wants to volunteer to name files, be my guest. I use a batch naming program to name the albums/ track numbers etc, naming the individual sentence text is the only thing that takes time.

[Pushindawood]

@s1212z and @Kappa420, @hali_g was able to figure out why some of the audio was not working so that I could implement a fix. Let me know if you still come across some review questions that do not have audio, even though they have audio associated with them in Example Sentences. Cheers!

[Kappa420]

Thank you!

[Asher]

Sorry for the delay in the audio guys. I have cut back my schedule for August (thanks to a government stimulus package that will allow me to work a bit less for a while). So my partner and I are aiming to complete everything then. I will have 4 days off per week to work on it. Woo!

[bgilstein]

Hi Asher, I want to thank you and your partner very much for the audio! Without it I have doubts that I would have subscribed to BunPro.

Whenever I start a new grammar point I read each example sentence out loud, quickly check the English translation, then turn it off to listen to the audio and repeat it back following the example. During reviews, after I type in the grammar point I play back the sentences while reading along. Actually hearing the spoken language is excellent for listening practice and reinforcing the grammar points.

努力してくれてありがとうございます！

[Pushindawood]

Update! - August 6, 2020

@Asher and Haruna have recorded, edited, and uploaded over 360 new sentences from 〜ようとする to で言うと. These sentences are now available on Bunpro and for download on Google Drive.

Thanks again to Asher and Haruna for all of their hard work.

Cheers!

[entropyofchaos]

I am so happy that the audio is being updated. I can’t wait until the N4/N5 audio is updated. The other audio was so much harder to understand.

[Johnathan-Weir]

@Asher Audio on this sentence is missing the に after あまり

[Big_Paws]

Cant wait for n5 and n4 updated voice, because as a beginner I feel like current recordings are waaaaay too fast, it even beats anime level of fast speaking. Cant focus on grammat point when im even struggling to hear each individual words. When i checked some grammar point from N3 it’s 10 times better.

[Pushindawood]

Update! - September 1, 2020

@Asher and Haruna have recorded, edited, and uploaded over 1400 new sentences from N3’s 第一 to N2’s 確かに.

This means that all of the audio for N3 is complete. We have uploaded the last batch of N3 to Bunpro and you can download the files from Google Drive.

The first batch of N2 audio will be made available on Bunpro later tonight. However, you can download it now from Google Drive.

Edit: The N2 audio files are now also available on Bunpro.

Thanks again to Asher and Haruna for all of their hard work.

Cheers!

[mathijsdm]

@Asher and Haruna, once again : Thank you so much for doing these! Can’t believe the two of you have already finished the entirety of N3!

[Asher]

Happy to help! I use them myself with the ambience app playing on my phone at the same time. Most phones can do it simultaneously. It adds an extra layer of difficulty depending on what kind of ambience you choose. Cafe, heavy rain, thunder, etc etc.

[alyr_arkhon]

Asher and Haruna, thank you both of you.

[Aecharjay]

@Asher I literally shouted with joy when my reviews started playing the new audio this morning. Thank you so much! Using an ambiance app is a great idea.

[Pushindawood]

Update! - October 28, 2020

@Asher and Haruna have recorded, edited, and uploaded over 1100 new N2 sentences from てこそ to と考えられる.

These sentences are now available on Bunpro and you can download them from Google Drive.

Thanks again to Asher and Haruna for all of their hard work!

Additional Announcement

We have added N3 to rōmaji search. The ability to search for N2 and N1 material via
rōmaji will be made available in the next few days.

We have also added a number of “keywords” that you can use to search for specific terms associated with grammar points.

Searchable Keywords

Formal or 硬

Particle

Demonstrative

Colloquial

Polite

Casual

Masculine

Feminine

Conditional

Hypothetical

Counters

Emphasis

If you have some suggestions for keywords to add to Bunpro, please let us know!

Cheers!

[Aecharjay]

I didn’t see a new update notification but I wanted @Asher and Haruna to know it has not gone un-noticed. Thank you for the new audio! It really makes such a difference. Often when I’m having trouble understanding a new grammar point as soon as I hear the audio it clicks. Really helps cement everything in my brain.