It would be nice if bunpro automatically showed you what the correct answer is when you get a wrong answer, similar to Wanikani
It usually does. Are you getting a bug that isn’t showing it in the blank?
@yatyisam I have it patched and it will go out with the update tomorrow. Thanks for reporting it!
Regarding color. Is it possible to get a mode where all color prompts are removed?
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Could you provide more detail as to why you think this feature would be useful?
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Right now I am getting to the point where I dont do all that many reviews per day and I really want to get the most out of each review I have. Previously I have gradually removed aids such as hints and nuances, because at a certain point, I remember which answer is needed due to phrasing in translations. The same is now happening to me with the color coding of grammar points.
For certain grammar points in specific, text is green, just to highlight some nuance, which gives the answer away. For others (for example, but not limited to) "verb + わ + verb + わ ", the highlighted verbs themselves are so specific that I dont even need to start reading, because the highlighting commands instant focus and your mind just gives you the answer without any thought needed. One might argue that one could “just read the sentence”, but that is kind of too late when you automatically connect the dots with some visual cues and deduction. Its not really “learning”, more like unintentional memorizing.
With no color coding, ie plain uncolored text, it would be a similar situation as the grammar in the wild challenges where you have to take some time, disect the sentence and understand what goes where, and why. You need to start paying attention to the entire sentence structure, you might need to put down 10-20 minutes for five reviews when you need to google, translate new words and fuzz about, but I firmly believe it is a better way to obtain and retain new knowledge. Also, it is a closer analogy to how the N-level tests are performed, and how any text in everyday life is presented.
It might not be for everyone, but when you have the time and energy to spare, I think it would be a valuable tool, especially since it is also connected to a SRS system.
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I have a request to allow collapsing of more than N5 in the “ALL” grammar list.
At the all grammar list page the grammar points are categorized by JLPT level. If you click N5 it collapses and hides all the N5 grammar points which is useful and I use it pretty much every single time I visit the page. That feature however doesn’t work for any other JLPT level.
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“Automatically play Male voice audio if available” setting during reviews
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I’d love to have an option to show all info when clicking hint. If I show any English by default then I tend to immediately read the English, but if I auto hide all then I need to click two to three times depending on the card to see all of the English, and if there is no nuance then I have to cycle through it all again, per card. Or just put the English way way below so one doesn’t automatically read it entirely when trying to read the Japanese first alone
Also, a progression setting of doing the “next” grammar point. It’s kind of silly that every time an N5 point is released, I have to go into the settings, change to N5, do the one or two new grammar points, go back into my settings, and click N4 again. It should just automatically do the next highest JLPT level grammar point not yet learned
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Please add a “Cram” button to an individual topic’s page to immediately start a cram session on that topic.
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Hey, I think it’s kinda odd that だった・でした comes after several past tense forms are introduced, e.g. う - Verbs (negative-past tense) which is about 8 lessons before we learn about だった・でした.
By this point I’ve used でした several dozen times already (to be fair だった is new, although I’ve been using かった also dozen times before).
Just found the ordering sort of weird there.
The grammar point まま should show まま(で) instead of まま(に). The usage taught here is not used with に but with で (optional particle), as we can see in the example sentences.
The other grammar point ままに already exists in Bunpro.
edit: I was not sure where I should write this, I’m sorry if this is the wrong place.
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I used to use bunpyro and the bug with my reviews was already solved, but I think the experience points weren’t being taken into account (during that time). May I have that checked, please? Some other people seem to have experienced the same problem on the bunpyro thread.
I don’t know where else I can ask for help. Sorry if this is the wrong place.
This person seems to have a similar issue: BunPyro - New Android App (WIP) - #102 by Bomyru
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In a similar vein, I find it funny when a lesson says “This is the second of three ways of saying XYZ”, when it is the first or perhaps third grammar point of the three being learned :p I would suggest not saying “first”, “second”, etc. but just saying “one of the three” or similar.
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Seeing the restructuring of the grammar pages for N5/N4 etc. I thought it was very clean.
This lead to me thinking if it wouldn’t be a nice addition if we had a “marker” as if we had a textbook in front of us, where I can highlight stuff in the text to my liking.
I feel this would make reviewing/referencing while doing immersion etc. far easier still to spot the key points I have trouble with or want to immediately remember/look at.
Same as the “notes” feature this surely could be saved on an individual basis, no?
I dont know if it was suggested before, but I think thats probably an easy to add, but very neat feature to have
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So not sure if it counts as feature improvement or bug… I’ve been Bunpro member since 4 years but… not being serious until last month. I decided to reset because while I was full N5 and nearly full N4 but it was just a mess of 600 ghost reviews. However, when you reset, the calendar gets empty but still retains the length. Like I have this huge calendar in my stat page that extends back to 2018 I think. I’d recommend than when you reset, the calendar gets resetted as well to the month of resetting as starting point (in my case January 2022).
Or Alternatively, that it doesn’t reset the day pre-reset in content. It’d be okay to still see my previous days. But having this reset yet long-ass calendar seems weird.
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I’ve only been a member since last year and my stats calendar also goes back in time to april 2018 I think. Also, on mobile the initial view is near where the calendar starts so I have to slide all the way to the right every time. It actually used to be the very first month, so I guess there’s some dynamic. Wierdly enough, on desktop I directly see the current month.
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Now that there are vocabulary decks I would love one that includes the kanji that are used in the grammar points.
For example 各、毎に、と並んで、と共に etc.
Alternatively enable kanji-input as answers so that we can practice that way.
I would love to be able to better see how close I am to completing things.
On the “Grammar/All Grammar” screen I can hide “studied” points, but this doesn’t help me much, as all of N5 and N4 disappear (and a bit of N3), merely because i’ve started with them. What I’d like to be able to do is hide them based upon the SRS level.
The simplest thing would be even a button that took off everything with SRS 12, allowing me to see all the ones that I haven’t completed yet.
Far more useful would be a checkbox set or slider so I could say, for example, show “All grammar points with SRS 6 or below” or just the ones at SRS 11, so I could focus my studying on either consistent problem grammar or final mastery of things that I am close to the end on.
That said, you’ve all done a TREMENDOUS amount of work, and the new site looks FANTASTIC!
So thank you.
Larry
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A small but imho important request: Please, for the love of God, provide me a way to hide those hints in [square brackets]. Mostly, they just say stuff like [literary], which should be in the orange “nuance” section anyway. But sometimes, they give away the answer and completely defeat the purpose of the app for me right now.
To give one example: Grammar point: N2 Lesson 2: 19/23 - て成らない .
Every time I get this grammar point as a question, the answer field says [成る]. I can read that kanji. So every time I see it, I am basically given almost the whole answer! I just need to remember to use the て-form and bingo, even though I’m certain I would not remember it nearly as well otherwise.
This could be fine, if it were consistent. But you don’t give away 90% of the answer in most other questions, so the few times this does appear, it makes learning the grammar point that much harder. If there is a way to hide this in the settings, I haven’t found it.
I’d be really grateful for a fix.
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Can reviews become available at the beginning of each hour regardless of when in the hour the last review was done, similar to how it is done on Wanikani for example? The review forecast on the home page is in hour intervals so having no idea when reviews will pop up within the hour seems kind of annoying and unnecessary.