Is it possible to exclude certain registers from a grammar deck?

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#1

So, I’m slowing down in my studies because I’m at the point in N2 where a significant portion of the grammar points are formal register and, it’s not that I don’t want to learn them, but I want to make standard register grammar points my priority because they’re more relevant to my everyday life.
Japanese friends often tell me stuff like, “そりゃあ全然使わへん” when I show them or ask them for help with a formal grammar point I’m studying.

So anyway, sorry for the ramble, but is there a way to put only the standard register grammar points into my study queue?

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#2

There is currently no way to do this without simply manually adding grammar points whilst avoiding those in a more formal register. I actually once did a similar thing myself.

My thoughts on this personally: People still understand that grammar perfectly and could use it if they wanted to, they just don’t say it every day. A lot of the N2 grammar points are extremely common in the written language or even slightly more formal speech so they are absolutely worth knowing even if you won’t use them in basic casual conversation. Not to say you shouldn’t prioritise grammar points you think you will get more use out of though.

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#3

Ditto on this. We currently don’t offer any filtering based on register, but it is an interesting idea.

What exactly helps you identify a grammar point as relevant to your everyday life, other than the register?

#4

Thank you for your replies.

I agree completely. And in fact, I’ll add that the people who say this are often not language learners themselves and might not get that even if it’s not grammar that they use on a daily basis, it’s still something I want to be, at the very least, familiar with.

I suppose nothing. I believe that they’re all relevant to my life here in Japan, obviously, I’m just trying to pace myself and want to prioritize the grammar that facilitates my everyday conversations in bars and make time later for the stuff I need when I have to go to the legal affairs bureau.

Either way, I appreciate the responses and will consider just browsing the deck and manually adding the grammar I find most appealing.
Thank you!

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#5

Now that we can make bespoke decks, I stopped following bunpro paths and have made my own ordered by date and I really recommend that.

Basically every time I come across some grammar/vocab in conversation/tv/podcast/book that I don’t know and need to know I just add it (divided up by weeks) and am slowly working through lessons everyday. As it’s stuff I have come across whilst doing things that are in my life, I find it easier to learn and more enjoyable - and crucially more relevant.

E.g. obviously most people don’t need to know the Japanese for words like pedicel or parthenogenesis (so it’s not in any bunpro decks) so if I stuck to textbook or bunpro order I would never learn the things I need. We all have our specific focus for language so after you’ve covered the basics it’s definitely more rewarding to follow your own path than get frustrated with generalised stuff.

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#6

To add to what others have said. Before working at Bunpro, when I looked at some of the grammar points on here and other resources, I thought ‘no one uses these’. However ever since I’ve been made aware of these grammar points, I tend to notice them a lot more in writing and in speech, they just didn’t register to me as ‘grammar points’ when they were singled out. The reason why I think happens is because natives just speak and write without thinking about each and every word and grammar they use. This is probably the same in every other language!

Sure, some of the grammar could be rare, but that does not mean you shouldn’t learn it because you will most likely encounter them (especially in less casual situations as @JamesBunpro mentioned)!