As Iāve suggested on these forums before, I think revisiting ābasicā topics but from the perspective of someone who is already an intermediate or an advanced learner would be extremely interesting. As proven by the frequent discussions in this forum and all over the Internet, things like the usage and nature of particles, different types of words, slang, etc etc can cause a lot of confusion and/or is a worthy subject of considered discussion due to varying perspectives. Iād love to read some articles or lessons on the nature of various ābasicā topics (which may be better considered as fundamental and therefore actually extremely deep) aimed at intermediate or advanced learners. Imabi attempts something kind of like that but it is extremely dry and riddled with typos so it is relatively low down on my list of English references for Japanese grammar.
Howeverā¦ I canāt imagine many people would use or read those kind of articles or lessons so Iām not sure it would be the best allocation of the Bunpro teamās time, financially speaking. I do think some kind of blog or YouTube channel that discusses these things (assuming it has a high level of production quality) could do wonders for Bunpro marketing. Equally, a basic N5 video series would probably gain a lot of clicks and it is pretty easy to put a call to action at the end of each video pointing viewers to the site. Tofugu manages to push people towards Wanikani fairly well, it seems, so even a blog would presumably have some effect. Bunpro doesnāt have to copy Tofugu but both Tofugu/Wanikani and recently Marumori seems to gather a lot of attention from people who are yet to even learn kana I think purely because of the pretty pictures. Again, something worth thinking about.
Anyway, that got really off topicā¦
On the topic itself, I reset once around the end of N3. It was the right decision for me probably although I would strongly suggest people donāt reset if possible and just add things more slowly. I think some learning meta where students are encouraged to read ahead, even by a whole N-level, but only add things they have learnt a while ago would keep the SRS manageable and keep a good feeling of progress (assuming theyāre using the language in some way). The problem is basically every beginner believes theyāre the exception and will ignore that kind of advice, or so it seems online.
. How many of you in the intermediate or higher levels have ever reset your grammar points/vocab in swaths just because you want to study them again or get more exposure to them.
I did actually think about it, but didnāt want to call something people do āpointlessā just because I didnāt want to do it myself, so I chose the ānever consideredā optionā¦
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Grammar points back from the dead, ready and willing to hurt you way more than ghosts do.