Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

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  1. Yes you should be tested on every example sentence before you Master a Grammar Point!
    • There are exactly 12 example sentences per item, for this reason (you have to get the item right 12 times in a row to Master a Grammar Point)!
  2. Yes, the custom sentences you create will show up in your Review queue
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thanks for the reply, looking forward to master japanese with bunpro

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I don’t know if this has been asked already but is there any way you could add a timer that would mark it wrong if you don’t respond within the time limit? I feel like it would help me be forced to recall words faster and could help for listening since you have to think quick to understand the whole sentence. I think Anki has some sort of timer feature although I haven’t used Anki for a few years at this point so I definitely could be wrong. Thanks!

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Has anyone ever asked about having the reviews come back more like Anki? In one batch I believe in the early morning. I don’t have a regular schedule so when I have to do my reviews in the morning but they’re all coming at night it just makes the next day a huge pile instead of a relatively similar load every day. I like how I can do all of my Anki in one sitting and having a consistent workload.

Having them come hourly suggests that to do all your days reviews when they are released would mean using Bunpro every hour. Plus memory isn’t to-the-hour precise so I do not think retention would be negatively affected. If someone knows a benefit of this I am not aware of please let me know because otherwise its a tad annoying. WaniKani suffers the same problem which made it make even more sense to unsucribe and move all of my vocab/ kanji study to Anki.

Streamlining setting levels/mastering (especially vocabulary)

Hi! New user of BunPro here and I’m studying for N3.
I want to start incorporating vocabulary (including words from N5/N4), but its been painful to go through everything to add the ones I want to study (and set the level). There’s not a great way to quickly look at a list of vocab and add to reviews/set levels/or mark ones I have engrained into my brain marked as mastered. I would love a faster way to do this other than clicking each word and waiting for it to load.

The best way I’ve been doing this is learning it as normal, then setting the level during the quiz but that still takes a lot of clicks for each individual word.

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A way to see which other alternative answers will be accepted for each example sentence on grammar points.
This helps when adding alternative answers to your own self-study sentences :slight_smile:

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Hi,

It has been a while since I did some reading practice with Bunpro,
and I wanted to check where I was last time.
But from this page Log in - Japanese Grammar Explained | Bunpro
I cannot see witch lesson I did (the ones marked as read). It could be usefull to have an overview of the progression on this page directly, instead of having to click on each lesson.
Maybe something like the srs stage fro grammar points.

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Would it be possible to have an option to cap the number of concurrent ghosts for a single grammar point?

I appreciate this is a bit of a skill issue, but recently I went through the N4 honorific lessons in quick succession and ended up with nearly 60 ghosts in one go, mainly from the same grammar points which I hadn’t got a handle on yet:

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It has definitely helped, although it would be nice if I could cap the number of ghosts I have currently running at say five and just drop the SRS level - now that I’ve got to the tail end of them it has become a bit repetitive.

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Yeah, I seem to be getting a strange “FOOC” symbol next to completed reading lessons now :thinking:

e.g.

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I would love if I could import WK Vocab that is past guru and study from that list of vocab vs just trying to get the SRS to match the WK level. I believe this is what the WK import is doing.
My issue is I can’t remember most WK words when I want to recall them to actually use them in speaking, writing, etc.

Is this something that is being explored right now at Bunpro? Am I maybe misunderstanding how the Vocab Import currently works with Bunpro?

Also, I did a reset of all vocab recently and noticed it seems my old vocab still has ghosts. Is there a way to remove these ghosts? Not the grammar ghosts, but the vocab ghosts.

Oh, I don’t see anything on my side :thinking:

This is likely not quite what you’re looking for, but if you’re just looking for a way to practice recalling the WaniKani vocabulary (e.g., get the english translation and then enter the japanese), you could use something like KameSame until BunPro adds this feature (It also allows you to only import the vocab from WK that you’re at or above a certain level with)
It’s not the same, as that is literally just a one-to-one translation without context, but it may help scratch the “help-me-learn-recall”-itch :slight_smile:

That being said, I do agree that your suggestion would be a good feature to have!

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Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, that’s what I was doing. The problem I think is though the lack of context. This is actually something I find quite difficult. Especially since WK doesn’t teach when these words are used.

As I have taken Japanese classes I’ve learned so many of the WK words are never actually spoken but may be for formal writing only. Or sometimes they are actually used only in formal speaking. It at least helps with reading though.

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So, I haven’t been tracking this thread (nor the bug reports thread, neither) for a long time, so I don’t know if my suggestions will have already been made previously. Oh well. :man_shrugging: :sweat_smile:


Reviews page Text Input to handle Japanese IME input better (especially for special features and shortcuts)

This is a general request to handle Japanese IME properly under all circumstances.

However, so far I have only noticed this for when I’m using Japanese IME (on Windows) and I want to see the hints for some item. I press the Space bar, but nothing happens! It is surely because the IME is rendering a Japanese (Ideographic) space character ’ ’ (Unicode U+3000), instead of a typical ASCII space character ’ ’ (U+0020).

I don’t actually know if there are any other issues with IME, but if even this oft-used feature isn’t working correctly, then I imagine that there probably are. :thinking: (Like, does it show the keyboard shortcut help when you type ‘/’ in IME mode, for example? Probably not? So, is there a way to make such keyboard shortcuts available in IME mode?)


Allow Vocab searching to include auto-romaji-to-kana search results

Currently if you search Grammar using romaji input, you get results which match kana. E.g. ‘kore’ will find the grammar point for ‘これ’.

But this does not work for searching Vocabs. E.g. Searching for ‘kono’ does not find the vocab for ‘この’. Would be very nice if it did.

(Nicely, vocab search does allow searching definitions, too, so searching for ‘this’ will find the vocab for ‘この’, among others. :partying_face: )


Display JLPT level for each item in results list of Vocab search

Currently, I am only interested in adding Vocabs which have Cloze support (currently only from N5 to N3). But since the Vocab Search results do not display the JLPT level on each item, I have to open all potentially-likely items in the list (I do so in separate tabs), which works, but it’s a lot of extra load on the server (and my browser) for no good reason. If the JLPT levels were listed on each item, I would only bother opening those from N5 to N3. Much less load and time.

Also, would just generally be useful for anyone searching for Vocabs to add, but who only want to add items from their current focus level (e.g. beginners only wanting to start with N5 items).

This should not be so difficult/different from what’s currently available in the display of search results, which includes the user’s progress indicator already, which I imagine is probably a more costly DB query/join to make than for each item’s own ‘level’ indicator.

Note: If an item does not fit into a JLPT level – for example, many searchable and addable vocabs have their Vocab Info listed as “A7 Expression” or something like that – then can either leave the ‘level’ in the search listings as blank, or could perhaps just display the ‘temporary’ or ‘internal’ ‘deck’ or ‘level’ as from the Vocab Info – such as “A7”, or whatever.

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Is there a way to cram speech style specific grammar? Like if I wanted to practice only formal grammar, brush up on only keigo, or maybe just a chill time with only casual (⁠´⁠(⁠ェ⁠)⁠`⁠)

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This can just be looked at by pressing ‘f’ answer you get it wrong. Often I get an answer trivially wrong and want to re-input the correct answer, but I don’t want it revealed to me unless I ask for it, else it is spoiled.

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F just opens the grammar point for me. The grammar point does not include the conjugation of the specific word (neru - nena) or the past/ negative past version of the specific grammar point. For a beginner having to combine multiple (sometimes new) grammar points without a way to check the methodology is not ideal. I dont know how to explain it any other way but you can just take another look at the white letters on the picture to maybe see what I mean. In my experience its key to minimize the time between getting something wrong and seeing (/understanding!) the correct answer. Having to open up multiple seperate grammar points is not ideal. I understand however that implementing a system like I ask would either require an insane amount of work or a tagging system for every cloze which might not exist yet [neru (negative) + sugiru (negative past)].

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Would it be possible to have individual word translation (in a popup maybe) like Yomichan does ? I sometimes can’t figure out a sentence because there is no translation for a specific word, so I have to look at the whole sentence in english to understand it, or use a dictionary app on my phone.
(I’m saying that specifically for phone use, because there is Yomichan on desktop)

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A work around you could do, is to do your reviews on mobile web instead of app. I have yomichan on Kiwi browser for reading, and with android connect I could even add them directly to anki sentence and all :tada:

Kiwi Yomichan for bunpro reviews


I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before honestly. There’s a lot of times I see vocab I don’t know and it breaks the flow of the sentence for me, so I end up skipping to the hint/nuance to think of the answer. Then check English for the vocab after.

maybe I should ankify my bunpro sentences (⁠@⁠_⁠@⁠)

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