Hello everyone!
I hope you’re all doing well!
Today I’d like to take a moment to announce a big update that has been in the works for a while now. N3 vocab cloze!
We’ve just finished updating all of the N3 vocabulary to be compatible with our cloze, fill-in-the-blank style of study questions!
This will be especially useful for those looking to supplement their studies or expand their knowledge of vocabulary through a more challenging approach than the typical flashcard style.
These Japanese example sentences were written by the amazing native Japanese speakers here at Bunpro, so you can expect to see many useful, natural, and interesting uses of the various words and phrases.
These examples can be viewed by navigating to the Examples tab located to the right of the Details tab on any vocabulary’s landing page.
Just like with the N5 and N4 vocabulary before it, selection of cloze style sentence reviews will trigger a review style that involves filling in the missing part of a sentence by using the provided information (the surrounding sentence) as context clues.
Naturally, we will aim to have the Japanese and English hints available for N3 vocabulary as soon as possible, so that tackling this style of question becomes easier, and offers an extra opportunity to practice reading Japanese.
In regard to English fill-in-the-blank style questions, as more and more vocabulary becomes available for study through Bunpro, many of you will notice that while there is always one ‘correct’ answer, due to the nature of vocabulary itself, there will be many cases where alternative vocabulary could also work. In these cases you can use our ‘Add Synonym’ feature. This can be done by clicking on the edit button, typing in the synonym you wish to add, then lastly clicking ‘save changes’.
This will be especially helpful for words and phrases that may have slight variations like ‘lots’ and ‘heaps’, where either may be perfectly acceptable in the sentence. You can even use it if you’d like to add your own abbreviations for common expressions such as ‘Inc’ instead of ‘Incorporated’. At this stage, only English synonyms may be added, but we may add this feature for Japanese cloze in the future.
We will be moving forward on to the N2 vocabulary translations next, with the implementation of cloze coming shortly thereafter, so please look forward to that as well!
As always thank you all for your continued support and feedback and we hope to continue to help you all move forward in your language learning journeys.
