た-verbs vs Genki 1 (2nd edition)

Bunpro
#1

Hello there,
I’m using the Genki path together with the Genki 1 2nd edition Book.

There’s one thing I’ve noticed that totally caught me off-guard:
Genki introduces the た-verbs in chapter 4, but just the polite form.
As soon as you do the た-verb lesson here on Bunpro you are receiving reviews for the casual form (short form) as well, which is only introduced much later (chapter 9, page 212).
So you end up with reviews for a rule which you aren’t any familiar with.

Maybe these should be split in two Bunpro lessons or at least there should be a hint, that you need look this up in chapter 9.

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#2

Hmm, I hadn’t noticed that, so that’s why I found casual form much harder than the polite one lol.

Honestly, I don’t think it should be separate. If I wanna check x-form, I’d prefer to have all the info (ーです、ーます) in one page than having to open two. Also separating it for the users of ONE book also seems too much (It’s just a grammar website, as opposed to a genki website after al)

And having specific grammar cards for bunpro, genki, tobira, etc so everything fits nicely seems like way too much work for the devs and it would give the users like, a minimum improvement.

I think the best solution when you notice something like that would be to just study ahead or leave the point outside your review pile until you reach all of it in your book.

That’s my opinion anyway… and it’s me, assuming that it can’t be fixed very easily or conveniently for all parties

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#3

The order for the grammar in Bunpro isn’t the same as in the books. Meaning that you can get a grammar point(23/180) but it’s page 180 in Genki.

The ideal situation would be you being ahead in the book and then using Bunpro as a supplement or things will get complicated very quickly :smiley:

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#4

I think the best (easiest) solution here would be to have a single orange hint at the bottom of the た-form grammar page that says something like:

A verb’s plain た-form is derived the same way that the verb’s て-form is, e.g. 食べる’s て-form is 食べて, and its た-form is 食べた

(The hyperlink goes to 文プロ’s て-form grammar point) :wink:

 

(Btw, Verb[て] has “て-form” as its ‘mouseover kanji,’ so I think Verb[た] should add some to match. Also, when using the search function, I think it should be able to return results for て-form and た-form as well, since right now, searching with the hyphen gives nothing)
(Also, searching “form” does not currently return any verb forms as results) :frowning:

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