Survey: How do you study Japanese?

Bunpro
#1

Hi everyone!

We’re running a survey on how you study Japanese.

Not just the Bunpro parts, but the whole picture: what tools you lean on, what’s working for you (and what isn’t).

Remember, there are no right answers here. If something about Bunpro frustrates you, that’s exactly what we need to hear. What you write goes straight into deciding what we work on next.

Take the survey! :tokyo_tower:
It takes about 5 minutes.

Oh, and, you’ll get 30,000 B-Points :bunprogold: as a small thank you from the team!

Just confirm the email you use with Bunpro at the end of the form so we can properly send them.

Thanks for taking the time, we’re looking forward to your answers. :bowing_man:

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#2

Was this really written 3 days ago?
How did that slip through my bunnydetector :grimacing:

PS Thanks for the 30,000 B-Points :bunprogold: :money_mouth_face:

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#3

Uhh…

Time zone diff? :jp:

(Post was drafted 3 days ago, published today)

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#4

Oh yes, rabbits are 3 revolutions of the world behind everyone else :grin: :rabbit2:

(Guard this intelligence carefully, as others may figure out how to enter the realm of rabbits if they hear this :shushing_face: )

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#5

I extract vocabulary and sentences from satori reader and use it to drive a set of anki cards. Some are setup as clozes, others as vocabulary cards, others as conjugation practiced. All of that is mostly automated through claude. I’ve also been having claude use the satori sentences to generate sentence diagraming exercises ala cure dolly style. I’ve also been going through the cure dolly and japanese ammo videos to learn grammar. I like it because it gives me an immersion first way to acquire vocabulary and understand grammar.

#6

speaking of surveys, I was wondering about the last survey, which was about bunpro feedback/bug reports

Before I took the survey, I felt that bunpro staff often resolved my bug reports, but since then, they barely ever resolve them (as a result I kind of stopped making reports)

Can I go back in time and amend my survey reponses :sob:

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#7

Wait there was a survey about feedback/bug reports?! How did I miss that? Definitely would have filled it out :sob:

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#8

I think I received it via email now that I think about it…

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#9

Very, very concerned at the slight mention of a suggestion of adding AI to the platform. Never, never never, Bunpro. You know full well what makes Duolingo so horrible.

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#10

SRS when?

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#11

do you mean FSRS?
…bunpro is already SRS…

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#12

Agreed. I wrote in my response that adding AI would be an instant dealbreaker for me.

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#13

As someone who has collected surveys in college, I know full well how important open questions are. The quantitative data might show something, but the qualitative details all the other axis you don’t test. I send messages hoping this reaches them loud and clear how strongly I feel about AI being a feature, in the (hopefully small) chance the numbers tell otherwise. Glad to see I’m not alone in this sentiment.

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#14

It’s a trick question so we know which accounts to permaban… :hammer:

In all seriousness though, we don’t have any plans on adding AI to the site. It is good data though as it gives us insights into user sentiment.

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#15

I don’t know if how i study is effective but I enjoy reading more than anything. But I absolutely cannot read something I am not interested. In English or in any language my eyes will glaze over and that’s just not acceptable in Japanese where every single kana matters. So, I have been on a quest to find something I want to read. I have tried many things. Yotsuba was fine but when I didn’t really get something I wasn’t that compelled to try and figure it out. Children’s books are fun depending on the story but the endless hiragana is mind numbing. I tried Fight Club but most sentences were beyond me. I have never been an anime person but I watched the first episode of Deathnote on netflix and was absolutely hooked and bought the manga immediately. I am reading the manga now and sentence mining it and using bunpro to fill in grammar gaps. Finally, something I want to read. At the end of my work day it’s something I genuinely look forward too and not a chore I feel obligated to do.

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#16

Glad to hear that!

The whole point of learning a language is to understand and communicate with human beings, after all :grin:

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#17

image (´ー｀*)

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#18

I was wondering the same haha.

Same that would be a deal breaker.

Thank you for the confirmation that no AI is planned for thr site :pray:
Waiting for the end of the year sale to join the cult of Bunpro lifetime user!
Waiting for the sweet sweet Bpoints :money_with_wings:

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#19

アンケート回答しました

thank you for confirming this. AI is a useful tool but it’s like a hammer, and not everything is a nail. Bunpro is doing really well as a carefully crafted platform with a lot of love for details, surrounded by oceans of quickly vibecoded AI slop apps designed to fish for a 5$ sub. Please never change this…

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#20

Sometimes I dream of Bunpro having a kanji learning program. I’ve always written this off as something unrealistic though. I reckoned Bunpro is working on so many other things that a kanji learning program with lessons and reviews would be completely out of the question. But now that’s it’s come up in this survey, I can’t still this small flame of hope in my heart.

It’d make Bunpro so thoroughly powerful that it’d probably cause rips in the space-time continuum though.