Do You Sync WK with BP?

Bunpro
#1

Good day!

May I ask for those who has both WK and BP, do you key in WK API to BP?

Other than it replacing furigana on those kanji you’d learned, what other benefits does it has?

I’m asking because from what I read from the community, it seems like it caused more problem than benefits.

Common problem:

  1. Undesired jump in level in BP
  2. Error in showing/missing furigana on kanji that user had / hasn’t learned

Any advise pls?

Thanksss!

#2

I dont have issues with them, they work fine in my case. And I do not see the problem on jumping a few levels, I would recommend to sync both even if it just hides furigana in a few kanjis

#3

I’ve been trying to get through the vocab decks, and it’s been going pretty slow, but I synced WK yesterday and that helped a lot (I have over 700 burned items on WK, I jumped to almost 600 mastered vocab items here, the N5 vocab deck is almost done now)

As for your potential problems: I wouldn’t consider #1 a problem, and as for #2, that doesn’t seem to work for me (it’s set to WK, but behaves like it’s set to hide all), but I don’t mind so much. Sometimes I know new kanji on WK just from seeing them a lot here and having to guess/hover all the time.

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#4

I can’t see why this would be an issue. Just go for it.

I’ve had this problem sometimes, but overall furigana has worked properly. Besides, if you plan on learning vocab via Bunpro decks, it will save you so much time instead of going once again through words you know way too well from WK.

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#5

  1. This is no problem since your XP aren’t your progress in the grammar you’ve learned.

  2. I’ve noticed that sometimes words are marked as learned which you haven’t actually learned when you get to a new chapter in WK. I think BP just checks for the words in the whole chapter not each individual. But that’s no problem because you can hover the words and get the furigana.

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#6

I synced to WK because this way I have fewer vocab items I’ve gotta manually mark as known (that’s the huge pain). Also, unlike WK, your EXP isn’t progress toward unlocking more items, it’s just your progress through all the content on the site. (You also get less EXP for vocab than for grammar.) If you want the extra review on the WK items, you don’t have to sync if it’s most or all items, or you can individually reset the progress and add them back into your queue if it’s only some items.

I never noticed any problems with the furigana, but my kanji knowledge is greater than just what I’ve gone through on WK, so I wouldn’t necessarily anyway. If there’s something I don’t know or have blanked on how to read, then it’s a simple matter to hover over the word.

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#7

Thanks all for the tips and advices. The one thing that doesn’t work for me is the hovering for furigana. I’m using my android phone and Ipad to study on the go, so unless there’s a way to hover without mouse on these devices, then hovering feature wont work for me.

I’m almost never on my laptop to study.

Then again, I’m only at WK Level 2, and BP level 6, so i’m still early in the study journey, so the said problem won’t affect me much i suppose! =)

#8

iirc if you tap the kanji on mobile the furigana stays present until tapped again, as if you were hovering over it

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