Test vocab English to Japanese

Up until now, I have been learning my Genki I (3d edition) vocab via Anki. To improve my grammar, I am trying out Bunpro. I noticed this awesome Genki I 3d edition deck (https://bunpro.jp/decks/yqtizh/Genki-I-3rd-Edition), but saw that my vocab was only tested Japanese to English. Does anyone know a way to turn this around? Because that way I will be able to produce the vocab better myself :slight_smile:

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Interested I am

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Currently we don’t support English → Japanese for vocab, but we are planning to support it in the future!

Watch this space :see_no_evil:

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As @veritas_nz mentioned, we do not support it currently, but are currently working on something that we hope will be awesome!

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Ah cool, thank you! In the meantime I will continue with Anki then. Looking forward to the update!

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Oh by the way since I am not following the forum that well, could you let me know here when the feature should come available? :slight_smile:

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I just noticed that there is now a Bunpro cloze option for vocabulary! (Or has it been there the whole time and didn’t I see it?) Anyway, I love it so much, now I can learn my vocab - in context - on Bunpro :partying_face:

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Any update to this? Hoping to change the settings for my vocab reviews to be English > Japanese instead of the other way around. Filling in the sentence blanks is the best, but seems there are a lot of vocabulary words missing sentences so the reviews then default to being Japanese > English translations instead.

Is this feature still on the road map? The option to review English → japanese helps with recall to form sentences with the vocabulary I think.

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Just wanna jump in and say that the general consensus is that it’s counterproductive to do English → Japanese. You want to be able to find the Japanese vocab naturally when forming sentences, as opposed to always translating from English to Japanese in your head :slight_smile: The closer you can get to not using English at all when studying the better! But you do whatever you feel helps you the most of course.

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I guess in that case the ask would be to always have sentence completion available for all the vocabulary. I think when it isn’t available, it would be nice to have the option to switch between japanese<->english

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@towbes AFAIK it isn’t on our roadmap per se, but one of this things that wouldn’t be too hard to add, and would be nice to have for completeness.

ATM we’re focusing a lot more on getting fill-in-the-blank sentences for all of our Vocab

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How about adding the sentences that are already there to the Translate reviews? So that instead of filling in the blank, the word to be translated is shown in the context of a sentence, and you then translate it from Japanese to English. Would be awesome.