I’ve been on WaniKani for a couple weeks, currently L4.
I just started Bunpro a few days ago. I planned on using it only for grammar. But then I decided, what the heck, I’ll do vocab here too (not as a replacement for WK, but just as extra fun). I synced with my WK progress, knowing it might give me a mountain of instant reviews (fortunately a small mountain, due to my low L4 level… maybe ~100 reviews total).
So far, I’ve not regretted the choice at all. Many positives, other than the obvious that I get more exposure to each word:
- I get to see the word used in sentences in multiple ways
- I get nice info about the word and its various definitions
- I get quizzed on the reverse mapping (English → Japanese) which WK does not do at all
But today something weird happened, while nearing the top of my small mountain. I was asked a question where this was the answer (see image below, and note that jisho calls this N1 while Bunpro calls it N2). I am not sure how the word entered my review list, but presumably it is one of these options:
- A regularly scheduled Bunpro word (for early Bunpro levels)
- A result of my sync from WK
Option #1 seems doubtful.
- Why would a JLPT N1 level word be presented so soon?
- It seems statistically unlikely to be #1, since I presume the majority of my mountain came from the WK sync.
- I don’t remember receiving a Bunpro lesson about it, but obviously my memory is not the most reliable source.
Option #2 seems even more doubtful, since:
- 万 [ばん] is not even on WK… jisho doesn’t show a WK level (see earlier link), and a WK search confirms that.
- 万 [まん] is on WK… jisho shows WK L3, and the same WK search from above confirms that.
Is this word intended to surface so early (or at all)?