Hello again folks!
We’ve got a few mini-updates that give you more fine-grain control on the Quiz and your Reviews!
Apart from the two new Review Types, these come in the form of a bunch more “Advanced” settings at the bottom of the Review Settings page.
Master+ Mode
For all our lovely masochistic users, we have added Master+ Mode.
‘Master plus’ – as we’re calling it – is essentially a way to never be done with a Grammar/Vocab in Bunpro.
Setting an item to Master+ makes it so that even after an item reaches Master status (SRS 12), it will continue to show up in your Review Queue at your Master interval (6 months by default).
Items that are of Master+ status will be visually marked like the following:
This is turned Off by default, so you’ll need to go into your settings and turn it on.
You’ll also need to Update All Existing items to be Master+.
NOTE: this can result in a lot of items becoming due at once, so use with caution.
New Review Types
We have added the Translate + Reveal & Grade type for Grammar, as well as
The long awaited Listening Review Type!
It acts much like the Listening mode does in Cram, but this time, it’s available for your bread-and-butter SRS Reviews too!
You can set your Reviews to Listening in all of the usual places:
- On the individual Grammar/Vocab pages themselves
- In the Deck Settings
- In the global Review Settings
Screenshots of said locations^
On the individual Grammar/Vocab pages themselves
In the Deck Settings
In the global Review Settings
Example Sentences alongside Translation Questions
This one some of you may have seen already, as it’s enabled by default!
For questions with a Translate Review Type (JA → EN), an example sentence is now shown alongside the answer on reveal!
This can be disabled in the Advanced Review Settings, under the title “Display Sentence alongside Translation Questions”.
‘Undo’ Customization
Also in this Advanced section, we’ve added a place where you can customize how the “Undo” action works during the Quiz.
As the screenshot suggests, you now have two options for the Undo action:
- Clear Last Character (new option)
- Clear All Characters (old default)
We had a lot of requests for this, so we hope this new option serves you well!
Example screenshots during a Quiz
Mistake before Undo-ing:
After Undo-ing (Clear Last Character)
After Undo-ing (Clear All Characters)
Minimum Ghost SRS stage
Another super fine grain control thing, for those that are sick of Ghost-overload for items they’ve just learned.
The title + description says it all:
Minimum SRS For Ghosts:
Choose the minimum SRS level Grammar/Vocab needs to be before Ghost Reviews are created.
This one is also accessed in the Advance section in Reviews Settings.
If you set this setting to “Seasoned 2” for example, any Grammar/Vocab below Seasoned 2 (e.g. Seasoned 1, Adept 3 etc.) won’t produce Ghosts.
Anything above it (Seasoned 3 and up) will produce Ghosts.
NOTE: That the base Ghost settings still apply (Grammar Ghost Reviews / Vocab Ghost Reviews).
E.g. if you have Minimum SRS For Ghosts set to Seasoned 2
, and Grammar Ghost Reviews set to Off
, then even if you get a Grammar question wong at Seasoned 3, a Ghost won’t be produced.
SRS Strictness (Grammar/Vocab split)
A few users asked for this, so we’ve split the SRS Strictness setting into two – one for Grammar and one for Vocab.
That’s all folks!
A bunch of pretty minor things in the grand scheme of things, but one that pushes us closer to our goal of letting you have more fine-grain control over your Japanese learning.
Another update like this that allows even bigger choices is on its way!
Stay tuned!
As always, if you have any questions, find any issues with these additions, or have literally anything else, drop a comment below!
We check the forums (perhaps too) regularly.
With love from
The Bunpro Team