Translate Hiragana/Katakana to English Instead of English to Hiragana/Katakana

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#1

Hello, I am new to Bunpro, so I am hoping that I am missing a feature that already exists and will be an easy fix.

As the title states, I am looking for a way to have my vocab quizzes show the hiragana/katakana that I am being quizzed on, and have me enter the English translation, so it trains me to recognize and read the meaning from the hiragana/katakana, instead of how it is set up where I am shown an English word, that I then type in the romaji for, and it generates the hiragana/katakana.

Ideally this would be a toggle-able thing, so I can learn both sides of it. As it is currently, I feel more like I am learning how to translate English to Japanese rather than learning to read Japanese.

If this is already addressed/answered somewhere, I apologize. I did check the FAQ and tried searching to see if it has already been asked/requested.

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#2

Inside your Settings > Review, you’ll be able to see this area for Vocab which I believe houses what you’re looking for.

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If you have any more questions feel free to ask, welcome to Bunpro!

#3

Thanks! This certainly looks and sounds like what I am looking for; however, I changed the setting and did a “cram” review, and nothing changed. Does this only affect quizzes and not cram, maybe?

#4

Cram is a completely separate function from Reviews as nothing there counts towards your stats/progress, so yeah the Settings you have won’t carry over three. If you select the Input ‘Cram Type’ when starting a Cram session then it’ll be the in the style that you seem to want!

#5

It is already set to input. When I do a cram session on input, it has the sentence in kana (and sometimes kanji with Furigana), with a blank in it, and English below the blank. What I am looking for is for it to instead list the kana, and require me to type the English for it, so I can work on recognizing and translating the kana, rather than translating the English to Romaji.

I tried changing it to “Reading” instead of “Input” and that’s almost what I am looking for, except it no longer allows me to enter anything at all. I just have to guess in my head, or type it out in notepad or something, and reveal the answer to see if I am right. Is this the closest option? If so, thank you for assisting me in finding it, even if it is not quite what I was looking for. I can make it kinda work!

#6

Ahh gotcha! Yeah for Cram currently we don’t have the Answer Type feature which is what you’re talking about. A future update will clean up the functionality of Cram a bit better to offer this and other things, but right now there’s just a few higher prio stuff going on. Closest you can do for now would be to use the Flashcard mode and just answer it in your head before seeing if you were correct or not!