Vocabulary review in hold/pause

[kero_kero]

Hello, I have looked around but didn’t find any answer or way around it. I burned out with the quantity of vocabulary reviews on Bunpro, I wanna take a break and just focus on grammar.

There is a way to hold my progress and stop reviewing vocabulary ?

[bunnypro]

Until staff get here with further useful info, there are a couple of ways I can think of that might help you:

You could just ignore the vocabulary reviews and only do grammar reviews by selecting the drop-down from the reviews button on the dashboard, then choosing only the grammar reviews (middle out of the 3 options here):

Or you could even try removing vocabulary entirely by opting out of Beta in the settings - as far as I know, that might remove vocab entirely (worth a try at least - but I don’t want to try it out myself just in case it removes all of my own vocab progress!)

[kero_kero]

Thanks for the reply, the second option looks like the one I’m looking for but as you mentioned I would like to keep my progress
Can anyone confirm the progress is still there after reactivating this option?

[imsamuka]

You want like a vacation mode, but only for vocab?
I don’t know if we have this feature yet. Also, the current vacation mode seems a little buggy (going by some posts here), but maybe the devs already fixed the issues by now

[wct]

I think the first suggestion of @bunnypro, to just select Grammar Only reviews, is the best workaround-solution for now. I don’t think the exact feature you’re looking for exists yet.

If you simply ignore the Vocab reviews building up over time, they will just accumulate and pretty quickly approach some maximum number (the total number of vocabs you’ve added to your review stack). Don’t let it bother you. In other words ‘let go’ of the feeling that you ‘need’ to do vocab reviews in order to keep this pile of vocab Reviews from building up. (In my experience, that’s where the feeling of ‘burn out’ comes from. Maybe it’s different for other folks, I don’t know.)

Only after your feelings of Vocab-burn-out begin to subside, then you can start thinking about the Vocab pile again.

Then, you have at least a couple of different options to take care of that pile.

• You could simply begin doing Vocab Reviews once again.
  • You could start doing mixed reviews again, although this will have the temporary side-effect of getting mostly-vocab review sessions until eventually you work the pile of Vocab Reviews back down to be comparable to the Grammar Reviews.
  • You could continue to do Grammar Only sessions, to keep your grammar study going as usual, but then also do Vocab Only (or mixed) sessions to start to whittle down your vocab stack. If you just continue doing Vocab Reviews, day by day, then eventually, you will be able to work the stack back down to a reasonable size.
  • In the meantime, don’t do any Vocab Lessons, or otherwise it will seem like your vocab pile will take forever to get under control.
• You could do a partial reset (or complete reset, but probably don’t need complete) of just your vocab. This is done under Settings > Reset. You go to the section “Reset Vocab”, select which “Deck To Reset”, and then press “Reset this Deck”. For example, you could just reset the N3 deck, or the N4 deck. Probably leave the N5 deck alone, unless you want to do a full reset.
  • A significant disadvantage of this method is that you lose all information about your SRS progress on the resetted vocabs. When you Learn them again, you’ll start from SRS level 1 again.
    • However, with Bunpro, you can manually adjust an item’s SRS level if you want to, so you can set it to whatever level you want. But doing this for many items may be tedious, unless maybe you spread it out over time, during multiple review sessions.
• One other quite useful feature, rather than doing a full/partial reset, you can manually “Remove from Reviews” any item you come across during a Review Session. This is done using the ‘gear’ menu next to the Your Progress panel when viewing the Item Info after answering a review (or when viewing an item’s individual page).
  • Any item ‘Removed from Reviews’ will retain its SRS progress, but will simply not appear in your review stack anymore. It will also become re-available to Learn again from whichever deck(s) it belongs to. So, later on, when you start doing Learn sessions again, you will eventually re-add these removed items back into your review deck, and they will retain whatever SRS level they had when you removed them. E.g. if it was previously SRS level 8, it will re-enter your reviews at level 8 again, meaning that the SRS-delay will stay at the level 8 SRS-delay.
    • If you want to reset the item’s SRS level as if it had never been reviewed before, there’s also a “Reset Progress” button in the same “Your Progress” gear menu, that will allow you to start reviewing it again with the initial shorter SRS-delays.
  • Although this is a very useful and powerful feature, you’ll have to do it for each review item that you want to put ‘on hold’. This can be tedious. But if you do it only as-needed, for example when you come across a review item that you are thinking, “Ugh! This one’s too advanced for now, let’s put it on hold,” then you will, steadily, filter out your review stack to include only those items you’re able to manage without starting to feel overwhelmed again, which could lead to burn-out again.

So, it’s not as convenient as a full-blown ‘Vacation Mode just for Vocab’ feature, but at least you can do some workarounds to get to a place where you have your reviews (vocab or otherwise) back under control to eliminate the stress and burn-out. This kind of flexibility is one of Bunpro’s greatest, yet lesser-known features, IMHO.

[kero_kero]

Thanks a lot! Appreciate your detailed explanation.

For some reason, I thought this option had to live somewhere, but is not as easy as pushing a button .
Ok, I will just follow your advice and let the pile go on.

I don’t want to lose my progress I want just to leave it for a bit and be a bit more constant in my grammar progress, I realise they have slowed down a lot to try to keep the vocabulary review on track 🫠.

Probably everything started when I was able to add WK World for extra practices, not sure if there is a point to doing this, I thought was a very good idea at the beginning visualize them in sentence, but some world are not that use full at my level and even if I spend hours every morning clear my full review in all websites they got out of control fast after I start to select this option 🥲

[wct]

@kero_kero

Probably everything started when I was able to add WK World for extra practices, not sure if there is a point to doing this, I thought was a very good idea at the beginning visualize them in sentence, but some world are not that use full at my level and even if I spend hours every morning clear my full review in all websites they got out of control fast after I start to select this option 🥲

Yeah, I think as a general study strategy it’s probably not as worthwhile to add vocabs just for the purpose of ‘extra practice’ (unless I guess someone out there really does need extra practice?), because the SRS system on WK itself will already manage scheduling vocabs for you if you’re getting them wrong.

But actually, personally speaking, my issue with it is that it’s a bit boring. Not really learning anything new.

So, in my own experience, I’ve found that the best part of Bunpro Vocab for me at least is that I’m using it to learn new vocab, and especially vocab that is common/basic but which WaniKani doesn’t cover (because that’s not the main purpose of WK’s Vocabs in the first place; they’re mainly for reinforcing Kanji).

So, when I started learning the Vocab from Bunpro’s ‘official’ JLPT level decks, that’s when I really started to see – and feel! – the benefits. Starting with the N5 deck, lots of common words that WK simply doesn’t cover.

Also, there’s synergy with the JLPT Nx Vocab decks and the JLPT Nx Grammar decks, especially with the example sentences.

In the end, I’m still eventually covering all the WaniKani vocabs, as long as they are part of the Nx vocab decks, but only as part of the overall process of ‘filling in the gaps’ by studying all the N5, N4, N3, etc. vocabs.

(And don’t forget that if there’s a Vocab on Bunpro that you’re like, “Ugh, I already know this, but I’m still reviewing it just to be a ‘completionist’…” then remember that you can say, “No, screw this, I really do already know it!” and then select “Mark as Mastered” from the gear menu, and voila! it’s gone for good, never to bother you again.