Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

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My free trial ended on 1.29.25 which is pretty upsetting (but I’m not mad) because the learn and review features were pretty useful for keeping me on my toes. I think it would be cool to have those two features as the default features of Bunpro so they can be used after the free trials end. But to still promote subscriptions, maybe limit the number of grammar discussions you can join and keep the self-study and cram features in the subscriptions only. I feel like having tests right after lessons in grammar/vocab was also very helpful, so that would be nice to have on free Bunpro too. Thanks for reading! :purple_heart: :purple_heart: :purple_heart: :purple_heart: :purple_heart:

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Yeah. You should be able to go to your decks, click one of the options, look to the right of the grammar/vocab point, click the three dots, then press “mark as mastered”. Or you can click the drop-down button on learn, click those dots, and mark items as mastered.

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Hi! Welcome to Bunpro. You’ll love it here! :purple_heart: :purple_heart: :purple_heart: :purple_heart:

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Is it just me or are there way more AI voiced examples in the lessons than there used to me? I can’t stand the robot voice… will it eventually be replaced by human??

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tldr: grammar lessons and all its examples have always had a real person, vocab was AI generated. the team is currently replacing both grammar and vocab with professional voice actors. this will roll out to grammar first, and within the coming months vocab as well

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Something I’d like - since we already have audio examples for grammer and they’re mostly rated. I passed my N5 but really strugged with listening practice. I think it might be nice to have an audio module that tests listening - at it’s most basic it could just be like grammar SRS, but random sentences from grammar points that we’ve already covered and gotten to a point.

I’m trying to do that now - when I get a new vocab or grammar point I blur out all examples and start with listening to it and seeing if I get it before reading it and then seeing if I translated it right - (all need work)

On a deeper level, finding a better way to test and expand listening would be great. Give it it’s own module and step up in difficulty somehow. Otherwise I’m having to sign up for podcasts and then pay their pateron to get the transcriptions

Edit: - post 3000? Sweet :slight_smile:

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Have you tried cram? It’s not srs, but still a great way to test listening with bunpro and have the sentences to check

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One thing I’ve missed coming over from another app (iKnow!) is being tested on my listening comprehension in reviews, particularly with vocab words. Often I’ll get a word right over and over and feel like I “know” it, but then I hear it somewhere and don’t understand :sob:

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I would love to see a deck that focuses on the most frequent kana-only words. I use WK for learning kanji but every tool I’ve found that includes kana only words also includes kanji words. Even just a way to filter to only kana would be great!

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Can you give us some examples of what you’re looking for? Also, if you’re opted into beta youre able to make your own deck if you’d rather

Sure, happy to! An example word would be あなた. Of course, there is a kanji for this but according to jisho.org, it is “usually written in kana alone.” There are lots of words I’ve run into like this. Eg, いくら. Does that make sense? Happy to find other examples.

As for making a deck, yes, that’s true but it’s a lot of effort since all the words already exist in other decks. It seems like filter them should be easy but maybe not?

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Ahh I see. You want words usually found in kana, even if a lesser used kanji exists for them. Not words like さて or でも with really no kanji

Yeah, even if you did make your own bunpro deck, the vocab itself will still have kanji attached. although bunpro usually does throw in example sentences using it in both forms

Honestly in those cases like 貴方 and 幾ら it’s still nice to be able to recognize it as あなた and いくら. Their kanji is used, just less, but still common enough depending on the content. Not the answer you’re looking for, but I would recommend just taking them as they are kanji and all. You don’t have to force yourself to learn the kanji, but after a while of seeing it, youll just sort of know it and recognize it anyway. Cheers

That’s fair. So maybe what I really want is just “top 5000 words” but with all words in the WaniKani database excluded. Basically, I like WK and finds its approach very helpful but because it is focused on the Kanji rather than the vocabulary, it leaves out a huge number of the most useful words. I could just use an existing deck but sync against WK but that causes other issues (particularly if you already have a substantial number of known words from WK—I’ve posted about this before) and it would result in some WK words being introduced first in BP which would (for me) be less efficient.

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Thanks for the response. I know you can go into the deck itself to master a card.

For convenience sake, I think it would be nice to be able to “master” new vocab words while going through your learning queue, like on desktop.
So instead of having to leave the learning queue, you can stay on this screen and master it.

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I personally wish there was a more clear statement on connection of a certain grammar point to another. There’s antonyms and synonyms, sure. But there are plenty of grammar points that seem to have a system level of casual | polite | super polite etc.

I started supplementing Bunpro with youtube channels that explain grammar point, and after using Bunpro for entire N5 and some N4, only on those channels did I learn that some of the points/forms are actually casual abbreviations of the polite versions I learned on Bunpro. Once you know that, you link them in your brain, and it’s much easier to remember them together with the nuance of which one is polite/casual. Very often until the point of “linking them”, I tend to treat each of them separately, which is much harder to learn.

I know on some grammar points it is explained, but very often it is just vaguely mentioned inside of a wall of text in the description. Sometimes the polite/casual version is not from the same level, as some points in N5 has their polite version in N4, for example. And that’s fine, but I think making a clear link to it, like two divs showing the two points, displaying in one color the one ur viewing and in another color the one that’s linked to it (polite/casual) but you have/haven’t yet leared, would be quite nice.

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Ohhhhhhhh I understand now. That would be a nice feature to add.

Very niche suggestion here.

I was moving through a review rather quickly and input an answer I knew was correct. I didn’t pay attention to my IME changing the kana to kanji and had already moved onto the next question by the time I realized the android app both accepted the kanji (I thought it wasn’t supposed to? The desktop site seems not to) and marked it as incorrect. There was no longer a way to fix the review that should have been correct but was recorded as incorrect.

Some means to manually fix niche errors such at that from the review summary screen (e.g. “mark as correct/incorrect” or something) could be nice for those rare instances.

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When you get the answer wrong, hit backspace to try again before going to the next question. @MaxChaotic

That works if you do not accidentally continue past the question. My suggestion is for the relatively uncommon case where you input an answer and click to move onto the next question before realizing the app registered it as incorrect for whatever reason (e.g. a typo, kanji conversion etc). At that point you can no longer go back to the previous question, at least as far as I can tell. Perhaps I missed a feature.

The closest functional solution to this I have found is manually adjusting the SRS level of the incorrectly-marked item to what it would be had the app marked your answer correct, but it’s quite awkward and imprecise to do that.

@MOA_304

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