Feedback - Suggested Improvements/Feature Request

Unless I’m missing something I think the grammar point

Should warn you that けれど

is not what it’s looking for, instead of marking it as wrong directly.

I’m just relocating my suggestions from my post in the lifetime sale thread so it doesn’t get lost. :slightly_smiling_face:

  • I bookmark all of the grammar points I study in my class so I can keep track of what I have studied in my classes so far. It would be nice if you could select a filter for your bookmarked items within the cram section if I wanted to re-go over certain points.
  • As an extension to the above functionality (bookmarking) it would be nice if you could create custom tags for your grammar points, and maybe even share them. This allows you to tag them with specific study paths.
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Allow for user-submitted sentences to be used in reviews and/or for us to import JSONs with user-created sentences. It would be pretty handy to have a ton more sentences to work with. At least in the early levels (where I’m at) I see the same sentences quite often.

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Would it be possible to have a manual ghost creation feature? Like manually marking a particular grammar point as a ghost.

In the event that I want to have more practice with a certain phrase/term, there’s no “organic” way to insert it into the SRS system at the moment. If something like that is already in place and I’ve missed it, please let me know!

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For points that come up in your reviews, you could purposely put an incorrect answer (type “あ” and hit enter) to give yourself ghosts.
(Or, you could reset a particular grammar point, but you have to swallow your pride and take a hit in XP as well.)

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Thanks for the suggestion. I think more control over ghosts, seeing which sentences are ghosts and the ability to create them or remove them should be possible. I have added it to our dev backlog :+1:

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That’s what I do! Whenever I add a new point I always get it wrong on purpose first so I get a few ghosts. Because when you just added the point you are obviously going to remember it but that doesn’t mean you know it. Was never sure if it worked or not but yeah

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Thanks for the new grammar explanations/lessons in the points. I love having those within Bunpro.

I think some of the English in those lessons could use proofreading/editing, at least for one particular lesson. At る - Verbs[た・ました] | Japanese Grammar SRS :

while ます keeps it’s regular role of making the verb more polite

here, “it’s” should just be “its”.
Later in that lesson, one of the final examples:

I forgot his name (and I still can remember). (An example of 存続)

I’m guessing “still can” should be “still can’t”. Is that right?

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Not sure if someone has suggested this already, but it would be nice to have a way to add custom resources to the already existent resources for a grammar point. Perhaps those can even be auto-added later to the resources effective list if too many people end up adding the same resource.

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I know it’s not the resources tab, but you might get around that by adding it as a custom note to the grammar point:

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I’m a new user so sorry if this has been suggested before, but is there any way for pitch accent to be added to the sentences?

Also, please could you add furigana (and audio?) to the sentences in the details tab?

Thank you so much for creating bunpro, it has really helped me in my studies and encouraged me to keep doing it every day!
ありがとうございました :blush:

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Hi @Megumin!

Thanks for taking the time to make this suggestion, I’m still pretty new here and I’m still figuring the best way to maximize Bunpro as a resource :slight_smile:
I’m aware of the notes section and I’ve been using this for this purpose and for my notes, but it gets kind of mixed-up. I think it would be better to have it in the resources section (although it obviously is a nice to have) where I can click to jump to a useful youtube link, or see the page of a textbook I have which might not be referenced. Probably because I’m also, at the moment, envisioning Bunpro as a centralized point to all my grammar studies, where I can see a summary of a grammar point and have all things indexed, not sure it will work that way as I progress. :woman_shrugging:

It might also be a way to get a more complete resources section for everyone, if a popularity script was used to populate this section.

Well, I digress… thanks again!

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Sure, I think it’s a great suggestion and I think it might been suggested before.

I was just suggesting it as a stopgap for the time being.

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This has been requested a few times but the ability to add custom grammar would be really great. I’ve had using the plain form to modify nouns (distinctly from the verb-た-noun grammar point, as in Chapter 22 of みんあの日本語) show up in my lessons and it would be cool to be able to drill stuff like that on Bunpro.

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Completely minor thing, but the male voice toggle thing works in a pretty weird way imo. If you have it set to off, it’ll play female voices but if you play a sentence without a female voice it’ll not only play the male voice but it’ll switch the toggle to play male voices for further sentences as well. I think it would make more sense to just play the male voice without changing the toggle. I don’t see why you would want it to automatically change the toggle.

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Right now we have some sentences that don’t have both audio it automatically switches from one to the other in the case where one of the two is not present. Once we have all of the audio in, there will be a setting you can turn on for audio that will make male audio automatically toggled by default.

Appreciate the suggestion!

We aren’t actually planning on allowing custom grammar or custom vocab to be added. Not because we don’t want you to be able to study it but because we plan on adding everything you could possible want in terms of grammar and vocab.
It isn’t always a fast process but we do plan on getting there in the end.

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@Jake @Asher

I saw three suggestions I thought were helpful but that didn’t get responded to (or maybe I missed the answers), so I’m compiling them here in the hopes that someone can get to them :blush:.

  1. Different colors on the JLPT bars to show SRS progress.
  2. “what’s the difference between…” type questions to help people solidify the distinction between similar grammar points.
  3. Option to skip reviews and add them to the back of the queue.
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Oh my god yes, I want this all of the time. If we could actually see an aggregate picture of each SRS level it would be very nice!

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I completely agree with all three of these.

The Different color on the progress bars for the different SRS levels is a very good idea. Then its not just have I reviewed every grammar point in N5 etc., but how far along I am to mastering all of the Grammar. It could be a simple Red → Yellow → Green scheme.

The similarity/difference cram or quiz function I think will quickly become a killer feature as well. As well as just more expanded quiz functionality. I think that the foundational philosophy of Bunpro as a production based learning first is very important. That being said I imagine there is room for other kinds of quizzes. Especially if this is a long term replacement for other study materials for the JLPT then audio based question are a must, along with passage reading and answer based questions. I this should be a long term goal if not a priority this moment. If you make as much progress this year as you all did last, then I don’t see why this could not role out before the December Test round.

The third is more a quality of life thing, but I don’t see why there is a more flexible way to handle review ordering. E.g. longest interval first/last, suspending, push to the end of the queue or things like that.

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