Vocab Coverage – New Grammar widget

[Sean]

Hey everyone!

We have added a new Vocab Coverage widget to Grammar Points.

Nestled between Synonyms and Examples, this section holds all the Vocab that appears in that Grammar Point’s sentences, and highlights which of those words are new to you.

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What it shows

Each Grammar Point now has two lists:

• New to You
  • The Vocab used in the Grammar Point’s sentences that are new to you.
• Learned Items
  • The subset of Vocab that you have already covered.

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Check New Items

Using the “Check New Items” button will open a “coverage check” – a condensed quiz to check and process your existing knowledge of the Vocab.

Each item in the quiz is a Vocab flashcard:

You can rate how well you know it:

And at the end of the quiz, you can see all the Vocab, your assigned levels and make any last minute changes:

And voila! You’ve speed-rated all the Vocab for that Grammar Point.

PS: The normal Review hotkeys work: A to Reveal and 1 - 4 for assigning a rating.

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Why we added it

Our primary goal was to make coming into Bunpro with existing knowledge as easy as possible, and allowing quick gap-filling wtithout having to go through the longer Learn + SRS Review process.

The Vocab Coverage widget also gives a clearer view of the Vocab load for each Grammar Point.

It helps in few other ways too, it allows:

• Viewing of all of the Vocab used in one place
• Better understanding which Vocab are actually new to you at that stage
• The ability to learn the Vocab for sentences before they come up in Reviews, so you can focus on the Grammar

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Where to find it

You can find Vocab Coverage directly on Grammar Point pages, below the Synonyms and above the Examples!

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Final Notes

This is just another lil juicy nugget to help expedite you on your Japanese journey.

We hope it comes in handy!

As always, if you have any feedback or suggestions, we would love to hear it!

The Bunpro Team

[lunchbox1]

Cool feature! I had thought about making a deck for all the vocab covered in the grammar sentences so I’m glad this has been addressed!

[chicharron]

Awesome!! Thank you

[CindyD]

That’s amazing ! Thank you sooo much !!
ありがとうございました！

[HM]

This is a fantastic feature! Thank you.

[nickvisel]

This is a cool feature, but I have a bit of feedback.

I wasn’t doing Japanese to English translation before (I’ve been doing translation to Japanese, trying to remember the word from reading the sentence in Japanese as best I can); now since doing this on my three new grammar points today, I got multiple “translate the word to English” reviews in my queue and I really don’t like those kinds of questions, but I’m not sure how to take them out of the queue, and I am also unable to change them to something that fits my routine; it seems odd that the words in question which are given in examples for grammar points cannot be reviewed in whole sentences, since they are sourced from the example sentences?

Edit: I found out how to remove things from review; so that at least gets rid of the largest annoyance.

[maurice620]

This is such a fun feature!!! I’m always trawling, looking for new vocab to learn especially since I finished all the Bunpro vocab decks, so this is the perfect fix!!! Thank you!!

[btluppi]

Thanks for the cool addition!

Question:

Back in N5, I remember that I would only get N5-level sentences for each grammar point even if more complex N1 sentences were available. I assume that Bunpro has some sort of invisible system that shows you level-appropriate sentences. If someone is strictly studying low level material, will this end up telling them to study N1 level vocab that they might otherwise want to avoid?

[Donutmancer]

This seems like a great feature, but I ran into some problems when I tried using it. It seems like I can only add all missing vocab for a grammar point at once. This was over 20 new vocab at once, which was a bit much for me, but when I closed the window it did not save anything. Something like a wrap up session button would be nice.

Even for grammar points with less missing vocab, I would still like a way to separate out the vocab that has sentence support from the vocab that does not have this yet. Maybe an option to only offer vocab that supports a specific question type, or a skip button that does not add the item to the reviews but also does not set it to mastered.

[dovahkiin]

ooooh you guys ate with this one, good addition

[Saraph]

I’m no expert in the most recent slang, but aren’t developers the ones doing the cooking while users the ones doing the eating?

[dovahkiin]

nah you’re right, devs did cook, but they also ate/chewed/cleared. they slayed. it can all be used the same way. we can’t be the ones eating because we didn’t do anything! hahaha ya know, I’m really grateful I never had to learn English in a formal way because I would have soooo many questions.

[Hairymini]

Well done! It’s really hard not to recommend Bunpro now. If a similar feature was done for vocab so that example sentences would only appear if all the vocab was known, that would be amazing.

[Neon_Kitsune]

Ooh, this is cool!

[JukiBazuki]

gold! thank you so much. Been creating anki cards for months for vocab i dont know. This will help having it all in one platform.

[Elektra]

Is it possible to use this feature but skip adding new items to review?
I’d like to mark the vocab I know, and leave the vocab items I’m not that confident with outside of Bunpro’s SRS for now.

[FullMetalAlba]

This is such a fantastic feature, thank you so much!! Really great to be able to frontload any unknown words in case your grammar is outpacing your vocab. Another great touch would be to be able to select words in reviews (similar to toggling furigana on kanji) and add them to reviews from there too.

[aPaincake]

I didn’t know I needed this, but I greatly appreciate this feature! One question though, does it also include vocab for all review sentences or strictly example sentences used to explain the grammar?

Edit: One very minor change that would be appreciated would be that checked vocab count towards the daily learning goal set. So I don’t accidentally increase my daily amount of words. I keep track of this myself but would be nice to see it reflected.

[Nyanperona]

Cool feature!
When doing reviews, if you press show more for a grammar point, the vocab coverage section seems to be missing… not that I would necessarily want to learn new vocab while doing reviews, just a consistency thing

[Nightscotsman]

I think it would be better if instead of just adding vocab items you mark as “not at all/beginner” directly to your review pile right away, they get added to the top of your “Learn” queue. Since I’ve already said I don’t know the words, seeing them for the first time in review and automatically getting them wrong is not helpful and just demoralizing. Bypassing the lessons-to-reviews steps short changes the learning process and the controlled portioning of content. If I do this for several grammar points my reviews would quickly balloon out of control.