I agree, the current voice actor was not the best choice. For me (and I don’t know anything about sound recording) she doesn’t sound professional which might even have a negative effect for the whole site.
I just downloaded an Anki deck from the nihongoshark guy and he managed to record natural and professional sounding audio for thousands of sentences with female and male speakers for each sentence. So obviously it’s not impossible to find good speakers and record everything within a reasonable time frame.
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I don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but I just accidentally sent off an unfinished error report because I was switching between English and Japanese keyboard and hit enter one time too much.
So, maybe you could change the Send Report button to only clickable? Or maybe there is another solution to “fix” this (if anyone else sees the need for fixing).
Thanks 
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Yes, I mentioned this months ago but maybe the Bunpro programmer have a reason why they don’t want to change that behaviour
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I am a new user studying for N3 right now but I love revising the subtle grammar construction rules for N5 and N4 so far!
One suggestion I haveis:
Would it be possible to take the existing sentences in the system and force users to type in more of the sentence or the entire sentence in Japanese?
This would of course be a different mode (Extreme mode maybe?) and may be useful for the section in JLPT where they get you to rearrange the elements of the sentence.
Another thing I am very curious about is, do you guys have any grand plans (in theory) after the inclusion of N1?
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Edit: Is it also possible to add in a 14px option for the font size? Small matter though.
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I may suggest a miscellaneous section (outside the grammar points of the N levels) which would help people greatly on the language learning journey but not necessarily towards JLPT. Items such as onomatopoeia or idioms are extremely helpful but are painful to learn…an SRS format other than Anki could be great though. Also regional dialect/grammar would be great to distinguish (written and voice). Probably other items could fit in this category.
In regards to the voice actress, I think she does a great job. The words are clear and at a natural pace which is perfect for learning. I know other Japanese women who have a similar pitch range so don’t think it was a fair criticism from what I’m reading. All these sentences are completely out of context so the speed and rhythm have a different feeling if in real conversation. I just grateful for a grammar learning source that a direct audio example.
I just hope to hear more examples beyond N4 and would be great to get some regional distinction or a male counterpart.
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@jprspereira Thank you for your feedback. Would you like to see an entire list of grammar points pop up and what time/date you studied them? Currently, mousing over the boxes displays how many items you added to reviews/items you have reviewed and on what date. How detailed were you thinking? Cheers!
@nantoka Thank you so much for your kind words and for becoming a Lifetime Member! You rock! @Anthropos888 Thank you both for your feedback on the speaker’s voice for audio. It took us quite a long time to find someone that did not sound too made-for-anime or too made-for-gaming. We received quite a lot of positive feedback on the way the voice sounded and decided to continue to use the same speaker for our sentences as we continued to add sentences to Bunpro. However, we have always wanted to add a male voice as well as have two recordings for each sentence, one normal speed and one a bit slower. We hope that once we added more content (additional sentences and textbooks to Paths) and have done some more polishing on the current content/features that we will be able to start adding more diverse audio to Bunpro. Thank you for your patience. Cheers!
@Myria @Jake Thank you for your feedback. We will see what we can do about finding a work-around. Cheers!
@Juppy Thank you for your feedback! Having the ability to type in multiple entries for a sentence or the sentence in its entirety is something we have toyed with in the past. However, when you are asked to type in an entire sentence or multiple pieces the amount of variables that need to be accounted for greatly increases. This may be something that we will consider adding after we have made N1 available.
Right now we are focused on making more sentences available for N2, adding textbooks to Paths, and polishing current content as we make our way through all of the feedback that we have received. Once we feel that we have sufficiently caught up on feedback and the site is more responsive and intuitive, we will shift our focus to N1, adding multiple audio tracks to each sentence and adding new/additional grammar points across all JLPT levels. We will see about adding a 14px option to the site. Cheers!
@s1212z Thank you for your feedback. Very cool idea! Adding a miscellaneous section is something that we could definitely look into incorporating into Bunpro in the future. Thank you for your comment on the voice actress that we chose to record our sentences. We hope to add multiple tracks (both male, female, normals speed and slow speed) to each sentence in the future. Cheers!
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Personally, I’d only care about knowing the entire list of grammar points (i.e. which items were learned that day).
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Hi, I have a couple of quick suggestions.
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When I’m doing lessons and get to the example page, I scroll down to the bottom to listen to them all but then I have to scroll back up to the top to get to the next item. Maybe you could have either the navigation for the next lesson item (<< | >>)or the navigation to go to the reading material (Meaning| Examples|Readings) for the item (or both) at the bottom of the page too. It’s not that big of a deal to scroll back up but it’s nice if I don’t have to.
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This is a super picky thing that might not matter much but maybe others noticed it too. The links for “Study” goes to an HTML page called “/learn” but the link for “Review” goes to a page named “/study”. It’s just a tiny bit confusing.
I posted this as a topic in the Bunpro section a few days ago but realized it’s more appropriate in this thread:
Would it be possible to let the user set their timezone or perhaps the time GMT that their review counter moves to the next day for each 24hr cycle. For example, I am in JST timezone and today I did about 30 reviews in the morning, but because I did some last night, on my stats the number for yesterday is higher than what actually happened in real life. Also today it only says I did 2 reviews, when I did more. Thanks!
Thanks for the comments! Good point about how reconstructing an entire sentence may require the consideration of too many variables.
How about a full word-by-word sentence reconstruction / Listening option from the sentences/audio recordings that are already available? This way, we do not have to account for the different grammar variations since the user is supposed to type out the contents of the audio recording.
I think this has been mentioned above and I would really enjoy that feature too.
I imagine that would be easier to develop from a dev point of view?
Could be a quick win for marketing a new feature!
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Please add the Japanese terms for verb conjugations in their respective grammar points. Example: passive, potential, conditional, causative, causative-passive and so on. It’s hard to ask Japanese people about the “causative-passive” - it would be easier to know the Japanese term. Even the Englisch terms “casual” and “polite” can cause misunderstandings, so the Japanese terms would be good to know.
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Great idea! 
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I’ve turned off English on example sentences so I can try and translate them myself before I check how close I got. I’ve noticed pronouns are often added that aren’t in the sentence like:
From Verb[た]
I know enough Japanese that if I translated it (before looking) as “I played soccer here”. I know I’m not wrong. I’m just wondering if newer people to Japanese might not. Would it be possible to maybe put “We” in brackets or parentheses or some other formatting? This isn’t vital or urgent. I just thought it might be nice to make it clear in the English translation that the Japanese sentence doesn’t have “we” in it or even implies it (since we have no context).
I don’t know if this is necessary to do. Maybe no one is confused by it. I just thought I should mention it. 
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I would like to request that more of lesson notes are displayed before the ellipsis. Often I write a one line note as quick reference reminder, but cannot see all of it unless I click. For example here is a note I created which I was hoping would be completely shown when closed:
And here is how much is visible when closed:
This is a minor issue, but would improve the platform a bit in my opinion. Thanks again for all your hard work!
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Thanks for saying your request. I’ve been wanting to say this request too but held back because my English. I wonder if it can be displayed just like WK notes (without the ellipsis).
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I second this
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This grammar has a lot of exceptions from the normal structure:
These exceptions are not covered by the SRS since you only see each sentence once (plus maybe ghost reviews). So it’s unlikely that users can remember all these exceptions when seeing the sentence just once.
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I’d suggest to use just the normal structure (prefix + verb stem + いたす) for all sentences in this grammar point.
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add another grammar point for the polite forms of certain verbs with several sentences for each verb.
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bug: you added orange explanations for many of the sentences, but these are not visible in the grammar point itself, only during reviews when you open the examples tab. Please make your explanations also visible in the normal grammar point
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Feature Request: allow batch sizes of 1 and 2.
Right now the minimum is three, and for someone that struggles with memorising new grammar points, I’d love to tackle fewer at once. 1 a day would be ideal. 3 seems too much for my poor brain to handle!
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It’d be real neat to have a button that’d let me look at the previous question. I have bunny mode on, which is usually fine, but sometimes I find I’ve entered the answer and moved on before really reading the whole question. Since I often try to stretch myself on such questions, by quickly coming up with a another sentence for it or whatever, it’d be real handy to be able to retroactively take a peek. Failing that, having a link to open the relevant grammar point for the previous question would also be fine.
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Maybe I’m just not seeing it so if it’s already there please direct me but I was wondering if it would be possible to add a jlpt level to the grammar that your studying when doing the various paths (Tobira, Genki, etc). Really just so you could keep up with where each one fell. Thanks for all you guys do!
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