I started using Bunpro earlier this week, and here are my thoughts on it so far. I’ve long been skeptical of whether Bunpro would actually help, but I’ve never found any other ways to study grammar that help either, so I figured I might as well give it a shot.
One thing that is immediately confusing is the scoring. If you put in an answer that is even close, usually the hints will just tell you what to do or you can keep trying different things until you get it right, and it is still marked correct. The only time it actually counts as missing a review is if you can’t remember it at all and have to click “show answer”, and even then it seems like you have to manually mark yourself incorrect by pressing enter. If you just hit backspace and type in the answer, it seems like it is counted as correct.
Another thing that disappoints me is that Bunpro appears to only be E->J. It feels like you’re basically just memorizing a bunch of things like “when it says ‘importance of means’, type in ‘noni’”, which doesn’t seem very helpful. And there’s often many different grammar points that seem like they could fit a given description, at which point it’s just trial and error until the hints hopefully tell you what to do or you give up and reveal the answer.
The hotkeys are also difficult to discover. I tried searching for hotkeys online, but the only post I found didn’t list very many. But I discovered a couple not listed by accident, like pressing F to view information or A to switch between alternate answers. However, there’s a lot more where I haven’t found a hotkey yet. For example, there doesn’t seem to be any way to start a quiz once you’ve read the pages for three new grammar points using the keyboard. You have to switch to the mouse and click on the dialog which is annoying.
Another annoying thing is that during reviews, there doesn’t appear to be any way to modify the beginning of your answer, other than deleting and retyping the whole thing. You can’t just move the cursor back for some reason. It’s pretty annoying if there’s a long answer where you’re trial-and-erroring the bit at the beginning.
Also, for some reason this popup won’t go away no matter how many times I close it.
Edit: It looks like there is an option for “reading reviews”, so I guess I’ll try that out. I only found out about it by browsing the forum. I did look through the settings menus before, but missed the fact that it has multiple tabs and didn’t see any way to control review types before so I assumed the default was the only option.