BOO!
This Halloween, scare yourself silly with 100+ Vocab Ghosts in your Review queue!
We have released THREE major Vocab updates.
So without further ado:
1. JMDict Dictionary Definitions for Vocab
We have added Dictionary Definitions to all Vocab words on Bunpro!
The new info can be seen next to the Details section:
These have been sourced through JMDict, an open-source, community powered Japanese dictionary database.
JMDict powers most online Japanese dictionaries out there, and many of you may be familiar with this amazing project.
We hope that the addition of Dictionary Definitions directly to the Vocab pages will help save you a lot of time spent tabbing to other dictionaries (that all essentially show the same data).
NSFW definitions
If you have your “Show NSFW Content” set to “No” (the default) in the General settings, definitions marked as vulgar or profane will be blurred out by default.
You can click on the blurred definitions to reveal them.
2. Vocab Ghosts
Ghosts are now available for Vocab!
They function the exact same as Grammar Ghosts.
They will be generated automatically (or not at all) based on the new Vocab-specific Ghost Review settings in the Review Settings page.
As with Grammar Ghosts, you can also create Vocab Ghosts manually, on a per sentence basis, using the sentence-menu (click the ︙) in the Examples section:
3. Vocab Self-Study Sentences
The ability to create Self Study-Sentences for Vocab has also been added.
Now at the bottom of the Vocab Example sentences, you’ll find the familiar “Add Self-Study Sentence” button.
Like with Grammar, you can use our special syntax to create yourself custom study questions.
These are added to your Review queue and have SRS levels the same as regular Reviews.
亜(あ) Furigana Answers!
We have also recently allowed you to add furigana to your answer, in addition to the text surrounding the answer.
E.g. In the screenshot, the answer (北 – north) is added as 北(きた)
.
Wrapping it in full-width Japanese parenthesis makes it function as any other furigana’d word in Bunpro.
When it comes to submitting your answer, submit just the part in hiragana!
So if the answer is 食べる
, the furigana will 食(た)べる
, and the correct input will be just taberu
.
Like with Grammar, you can keep track of both your Vocab Ghosts and Self-Study sentences on the Dashboard, under the “Progress” section.
That about wraps it up!
Another quality of life update for Vocab that our wonderful users can hopefully all benefit from.
We read all feedback, please comment below if you have any feedback at all, or if you notice anything odd.
As always, happy studying!
The team at Bunpro