Good day fellow Bun-pros.
We’ve been toiling away at a new set of features, and finally get to announce them to you lovely people!
A big part of the Bunpro Experience™️ that was in dire need of a facelift was helping new users get off to the right start when first joining.
Once you finished signing up for Bunpro, you were asked a few questions, then thrown feet first into the fire.
There was no explanation of features, and you were basically out of luck if you couldn’t read hiragana and katakana.
We have added a bunch of new features to help make those first few steps when learning with Bunpro a little less painful.
To help remedy these issues, we present the following:
Bunpro’s Complete Guide to Learning Kana
On the Kana page, you’ll find a fully-featured tool for learning Hiragana/Katakana and all their combinations and modifications!
Features:
- All Hiragana, Katakana, and combinations
- Split into bite-sized sections
- Complete with description, fun facts, and other info
- Pronunciation and typing info
- Natively recorded audio
- Mark each row of kana items as ‘Read’
- Which enables…
- Kana Practice Quizzes for drilling each of the items (with audio)
And…
Printable Kana charts, Bunpro-themed 
You’ll find them scattered throughout the Kana page, and aggregated in the Resources section at the bottom.
Here are some direct links to them too for those curious:
- Full Hiragana Chart
- Full Katakana Chart
- Hiragana Writing Practice
- Katakana Writing Practice
- Free Writing Practice
Once you’ve learnt all those darned kanas, you can test your knowledge, IN THE ARENA! 
Introducing…
GoKana
We recently added GoKana, to Bunpro, a neat little app originally developed by Brody Smith!
It’s a neat little kana flashcard arcade game that features a leaderboard, native audio, sound feedback, and cool animations 
Compete for a high score in each of the many different hiragana/katakana combinations!
Onboarding & Tour
An Onboarding is a process that helps new users quickly customize the product to their needs and hit the ground running. Our goal with this update was to create a smoother experience for all the people that are completely new to Bunpro, setting up for success in record time.
If you ever wanted to invite someone to join Bunpro, now’s a great time!
Onboarding
Features…
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Level select
- Select between not only N5 to N1 as your level, but also ‘Absolute Zero’ – which will take you through learning Kana before you start at N5
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Optional textbook selection
- Set a textbook as your Deck right during the Onboarding, otherwise choose between Grammar, Vocab or Both as your content type.
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Pace Selection
- With concrete indicator of items learned per day
- Time to fnish
- A indicator of how long it will take to finish your chosen Deck/contents
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Confetti upon finishing Onboarding
Tour
Through the Tour you’ll receive a much overdue intro to the Learn system (both the Lesson and Quiz steps ), the Summary and the Dashboard pages (including the Learn dropdown).
Unfortunately while the Onboarding cannot be re-accessed by existing users, the Tour can!
Links to re-access the Tour for those that are curious
NOTE: Some parts of the Tour may be broken for existing (post-onboarding) users.
Anyway, that about wraps it up for this update!
The bad news:
- Most of you are long-time users, who are well beyond benefitting from this new set of Bunpro-branded training wheels.
The good news
- You get to use your battle-hardened prowess to dominate the leaderboard in GoKana.
On a more serious note, with all this beginner-focused goodness now done and dusted, we now have cleared up time again to 100% focus on features that you can all enjoy!
As always, please let us know any feedback or bugs you find with this or any of our services, we read it all and it means a lot to us.
Thanks and as always, happy studying!
The Bunpro Team
PS: App versions of GoKana and Kana will be out shortly 🙇♂️
