Hey! Vocab reviews are going good, but I’ve run into a problem: I can remember the words and their meanings pretty well, but when I have to attach that to a kanji, I can’t remember the word! The other day I was reading a manga, saw a kanji I didn’t recognize, and yomichaned it. But to my utter horror, it was a word I had gotten to Seasoned!
Is there an option in Bunpro to change my vocab reviews to show me the kanji in the word rather than a blank space in a context sentence?
A visual example:
Are you reading the sentence after you input your answer?
on the review settings page you can change all of your vocab reviews to translate. Doing this will result in BP just showing you the kanji and you need to type the english translation. That being said, I would recommend you keep to the fill in the blank style since it will help a lot more with recall when speaking or listening. You can always set up crams for practicing the reading of kanji.
I will admit: Not every time
I definitely don’t want to lose the fill in the blanks for good, but some crams sound excellent to fix this issue, thanks!
Cram is a great option. If you still find that doesn’t fix your issue you might want to look at learning kanji in a different way.
For me, Bunpro is great for grammar when used alongside my current textbook. I do the vocabulary flashcards too but not really to learn the kanji, mainly to focus on how the word works IRL and the reading.
For kanji studies I use Wanikani, I have for a couple of years and it’s the only platform where I have seen kanji in the wild and been able to active recall reading, meanings etc. I think this is because of the approach of learning the radicals, it allows me to break things into little bts and even if I dont recall the reading, I know the gist of the meaning.
It is a paid platform but you can get a deck on Anki, and there is a free platform called kaniwani.
Also, you might find hand writing kanji to be the way to cement it, Ringotan is a free app which helps with this, but remember, unless you are doing entrance exams for Japanese universities etc, hand writing kanji isn’t really used.
Anyway, I hope my info dump helps haha
Just remembered, if you are looking for a game, check out Wagotabi, its N5, very cool design and covers kanji, vocab and basic grammar.Its paid but I really didn’t mind supporting an indi developer.
Start now. Trust me. Since it changes to kanji following input, you 1) won’t forget the kanji in readings, and 2) will start to recognize other kanji in readings even if you haven’t intentionally studied them yet.
I am an advocate of creating your own anki deck with whatever troubles you from other study sources. Seeing the same thing in different environments often works.
If not anki, write a story, make a drawing with that kanji in the middle, find some easy text with that (maybe look in nhk easy news) or whatever.
The main idea is to mix things and learn from different sources, esp when one is not working for you for a particular item.