Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

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I’ve got a small suggestion, more a cosmetic improvement than anything.

In the view shown below, would it be possible to change the midnight hour to bold or underline it so that you can see in a glance when the day turns over?

Thank you in advance for your consideration.
良い一日を

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I didn’t know you could Yomichan on mobile but I must admit that seems quite the hassle on top of using Bunpro on web, but in case it is not implemented I might just try it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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

@Sidgr Have tried this in the past, but Windows changes the character used for space depending on the context – if you are converting something from kana to kanji (e.g. いえ→家) it won’t be Space.

But yeah, the last implementation I tried for this, the Windows IME broke the Space hotkey.
Maybe one day I can try again!

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

We have the creation of a feature-rich global search feature in the pipeline!

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

^Will likely be included in the above

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@IcyIceBear

Semi-related, but we’re currently working on a word-wrapper that will make them all display this tooltip when clicked on:

Provides a translation, link to the word and button to Add to Reviews/Mark as Known.

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is there an easy way to see from the dashboard how many grammar points I have added today? I can check the date first studied on the individual grammar point page, but it would be nice to see it at a glance on the dashboard. I try to add 3 a day if reviews are manageable but sometimes I forget if I’ve done it yet or not. ty for considering.

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Some of the words in the vocab decks seem to be in wildly the wrong place, for example why is 抗生物質(antibiotics) in the N5 deck, when on jisho it’s not covered in JLPT at all (which makes it over n1?). Another example is midwife and gynocology center(I dont even know what gynocology is in english why am I learning the japanese word for it?), It would be nice if the vocab decks alligned with Jisho more, and maybe putting the ones over JLPT 1 in a different deck? I know there isn’t a set list for JLPT but I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t be talking about antibiotics in N5.

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There are some words in the N5 deck that are certainly rarer like you mention, but this is because they are words that appear in the vocabulary list of Genki 1. Overall there is only a small handful of them thankfully. Genki must have decided they were important regardless of level :man_shrugging:

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Would like to second this. Handpicking multiple vocab items you want to add to reviews takes a super long time at the moment. Having an “add multiple items” button that generates a checkbox display would be really helpful.
I think it’s a necessary adjustment since you’re much more likely to want to handpick the vocab relevant to you than in grammar studies where its best to just work through the whole deck.

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as much as~ だけ
ex. ”集められるだけ情報が聞き出しておくか”

This is a grammar point I came across and I wasn’t sure if it existed on bunpro, so if so I’d like to suggest it, or be pointed to where it is if it exists already, for reference since it’s nice to have everything in one place if possible.

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This could bethe one you’re looking for -

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Ah, thank you. I missed it upon my searching probably because my brain filtered it when seeing は

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I’d love to see improved offline functionality on the android app. The app always tries to download data from the internet for a good few minutes before recognising it’s offline. If I only have a few minutes at work, this can often stop my study attempts.

Even though the grammar point for 給え states that it is attached to ます-stems. The reviews for it do not require me to recall this information. The reviews just give me the verb with ます-stem and I simply have to write 給え. I feel like I will not be able to use this grammar if learned this way.

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I’d like one of these for vocab too!

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Vocab item info upgrade (such as verb ‘transitivity’ type)

Verbs currently have a ‘Word Type’, such as ‘る-Verb’, and a ’ 単語の書類’, such as ‘一段動詞’. However, sometimes it’s important to also know what ‘transitivity’ type a verb is.

Some details…

For example, the most common Japanese types for this aspect of a verb are ‘自動詞’ and ‘他動詞’. As a mostly-literal translation, these are ‘self-move verbs’ and ‘other-move verbs’. Although, they are often translated to conform to English’s verb transitivity categories, namely ‘intransitive’ and ‘transitive’. (Cure Dolly has a great video on this topic, advocating for the more-literal interpretation.)

As a workaround, I can just look up a verb online or using a tool like 10ten Japanese Reader (aka Rikaichamp), but as a long-term feature request, I think it would be good for BunPro to eventually include transitivity info for verbs.

Also, other info would be nice, too

And, consider this request also as a placeholder for just ‘more complete information’ about vocab words in general.

Off the top of my head, I’d be interested in things like: Whether the word is ‘usually kana-only’; alternative kanji for the same word; whether a kanji is rare or common or obsolete or whatever; and, for words with the same/similar readings, but with different kanji, whether the different kanji are used to represent different nuances of basically ‘the same’ word (e.g. とめる can use 止, 停, 駐, 留 (basically different nuances), or it can use 泊 (related, but different), or 富 (completely different) ).

But(!), these additional ideas are just off the top of my head, and are not intended to convey any particular urgency or priority. I recognize that most of these kinds of features are already provided by existing dictionaries and lookup tools. Maybe it makes sense for Bunpro to have them too, but then again, maybe it doesn’t. Plus, I’m sure other people would have their own preferences for vocab info.

Summary of main request

But for the first request, ‘transitivity’ type (‘自動詞’ and ‘他動詞’), I think that’s something BP could definitely benefit from including, especially since these types are affected by and influence grammar also.

[I think there’s even a grammar point that asks you to answer with a verb’s ‘transitivity pairing’. Right? :thinking: ]

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I might have an idea for an improvement, or I might just be overlooking an existing solution. When I’m looking at the Genki book, for example, and see all the grammar points from every chapter, I want to study specific grammar points. Currently, I can only choose them from the specific chapter I’m in. For instance, I can’t select a grammar point from chapter 5, two from chapter 7, and one from chapter 10 simultaneously. This wouldn’t be an issue if I were studying chapters sequentially. However, when I use Bunpro’s new grammar button, I receive three new grammar points, which are not always from the same chapter of the book I’ve chosen. As a result, I might end up with a mix of grammar points from different chapters. I hope I’ve articulated the problem clearly, and I would appreciate a response.

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Feature Request: The ability to add your own vocab

I sometimes come across unfamiliar vocab when I study and I often search it up in the vocab section and add it to review. There are often times when I can’t find certain vocab which can be frustrating at times.

It would be nice to add our own vocab to the system to help other people find it too or just for our personal use.

Thank you. :slight_smile:

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I think you can go into the deck and scroll through the grammar points and manually add them to reviews!

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Or even having like a link to the Jisho word where it has more info would be useful too(there might be one that im overlooking tho)

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You can get extensions where you highlight a word, and then right click to search it on Jisho

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