Should I be self-counting the こと grammar points wrong?

Bunpro
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Mixing up ということ, ということのは, and ということなの. I’m really not sure of the difference between them, and when I pick one it tells me completely wrong and I just cycle through them until I get it right. Is this the wrong way to go about it? I don’t do this with other similar grammar points because I feel that they are different enough that I should know, but for these they annoy me and I just try to get them gone asap. If that’s not the right approach I’ll be humble enough to accept that lol. But at surface level at least they seem the same.

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#2

I was doing the same with other things, more specifically vocabulary. I often see myself confusing words like:

  • 通常
  • 普通
  • 普段
  • 大抵
  • 一般的

I’m aware that they have different nuances, but I can’t remember them (or maybe I never understood them to begin with). So I know that I’m hurting myself in the long run until I sit to spend time reading about them and practicing.

In my opinion, marking them as correct will artificially elevate your SRS level about something you don’t completely understand. So in the future you won’t have the opportunity to keep practicing without manually downgrading that level.

My recommendation in such cases would be to look into other resources until you get the nuances right, and always to be honest with your answers. If it’s too overwhelming right now, just remove them from your review stack.

When grammar points are exchangeable, Bunpro usually marks both answers as correct, or in case that it wants a specific answer, it will give you a warning in yellow. I think in these last cases it’s fine to correct yourself, but if it is marked as an error, don’t fix it until prompted again.

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#3

Could you please give an example test sentence with your and bunpro’s answer?

I think it’s an interesting question, just difficult to comment on without a specific example.

In general, I think there are some equally valid strategies to go about it:

  • remove them from reviews and spend saved time on native reading
  • look for additional explanations and more importantly native examples on other resources / textbooks
  • cram all these sentences on bunpro a couple of times
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