Returning to Bunpro after a Long Time

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#1

Hello!

Long time no see bunpro, you have changed greatly in my absence. I’m very interested in restarting my usage of this site, but wow everything looks super different… Y’all do vocabulary now?

Is there a user guide for those of us who last used this website in 2021? I’ve had a wild and busy few years, but looking to take N2 in December. I’m definitely going to reset my account, but I’m also wondering how the grammar points have increased so much in the last few years? (I’d completed N3 but now it’s saying there are thousands more things to learn? Fascinating??)

(also if it’s not tooo much to ask, could I please change my username within the bunpro app? I can’t figure out how to do it via the website and I like the silly badges and would rather not make an entirely new account)

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#2

Hi, I’m not sure if there’s a complete user guide anywhere to be found but I can answer some of the immediate questions.

The graphs show by default the combination of grammar and vocabulary points in any given N level. There are only 219 N3 grammar points in the bunpro grammar deck.

If you prefer not to engage with vocabulary through bunpro, there are ways to make it so that your learn queue only gives you grammar and you can switch your graphs to grammar only (on the mobile app it’s the arrow in the top right corner of the graph box)

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#3

Hey! Welcome back. I also returned intermittently throughout the years, but have finally managed to get a routine that sticks.

So basically, you now have decks you can choose from, and you can select for each deck how many lessons you want to do each day. You can then do multiple decks at once, and they are all automatically put into your lesson button.

While there are more grammar points, they mostly contain the same information, but explained more explicitly and clearly so that you can understand future grammar points way better. The structure of the grammar point in the deck is extremely good at giving you the tools to clearly understand the reasoning behind future grammar points, and therefore help you understand them way better. The explanations for the grammar are also way better, and I highly recommend you read through them, even if you think you know everything about it. It usually has clear description as to where grammar points are used, and when you should absolutely not use them for example (don’t use なさい for a superior for example!). Furthermore, some things that were vocabulary are now also put into grammar, to show a proper use of those items, or to bundle a few to show that they have the same logic.

For example, something that never really clicked for me was 「A」～て「B」 verbs quite often just being “A happened, and then B happened”. I recently relearned 「A」～てみる (to try), and only then it just clicked that it just literally means “To do A, and see (見る)”, which is just literally what trying is. Like, a lot of grammar points were just something I had to remember, but I’ve suddenly just started to seeing a lot more logic behind everything, and I’m noticing I’m absorbing the information way better.

Because of this solid foundation-creating, instead of continuing my steamroll from N5 grammar to N4 grammar, I actually took a small break to finish up my N5 vocab, which also provided me with a very solid baseline to start N4 with. I highly recommend you do that as well.

Basically, don’t get intimidated by the large number of grammar points, with the same knowledge base it’s about the same amount of work.

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