Reviews that need more context

Bunpro
#1

I have reported a couple of these as “bugs” because I wasn’t sure what else to do, but I just found out these forums exist.

I find it incredibly frustrating when doing reviews to get a prompt like トム [polite]。My first answer was です because why wouldn’t be, turns out it was looking for がいます. I hate needing to use “hints” to get enough context to answer the reviews. I feel like what they are asking for should be self evident. I feel like I run into one of the these every couple days.

Side question, is there a keyboard shortcut to show hints? One of the reasons, I hate using hints is because it takes my hands off the keyboard.

#2

You can get hints to appear by pressing spacebar. :slight_smile:

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#3

Thanks. I don’t think I tried that. I figured it was going to be like ctrl-(something) since you are already typing text in a text box.

#4

There’s an option to make the hint always appear.
Settings → Reviews → Review hints → Grammar Hint → Show

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#5

Don’t know how well this exact experience applies to you, but my goal with bunpro isn’t to get correct answers on Bunpro, but to be able to read and listen well first and foremost so I can continue to get a large input from normal reading so I just put hint on step 1 by default so I don’t have to play “figure out the grammar point they want” for long. It’s not perfect and if I think it’s still too vague I’ll try similar grammar point and assess for myself based on the differences of the points whether I knew it well enough or if the nuance between the points was too large to fit in. I’ll randomly give correct to things I know well enough when reading rather than writing or give wrong to things I don’t feel I know well enough regardless of whether I answered it right or wrong.

It’s not ideal, but language being what it is I don’t really think it’s an easy problem to solve. I trust myself to be honest in what I know or don’t know so I’m fine doing it this way. Seems to me to be the most effective way to learn a lot in a short time anyways.

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