Wanikani furigana & Grammar Type

[Wanyudo]

Two separate questions but I didn’t want to double-post.

Firstly, I’ve always had Wanikani furigana synced and turned off in BP, but since yesterday I see all furigana all the time. I’ve even tried changing the setting back and forth to make sure it saves. I did let my Wanikani subscription expire yesterday as I’ve completed level 60 several months ago and I’ve now gotten all I needed out of that service - could that be the issue? Do you need an active WK subscription for the sync to work and the furigana to stay hidden?

Secondly, while checking on the settings, I noticed a new (for me) option to set the Grammar Type for Reviews (Fill-in Questiom, Reading Question, etc.). I couldn’t really figure out what each option did from the name alone, is there somewhere I could see the explanation of that setting that I missed?

[TOKEIPPO]

@Wanyudo

while checking on the settings, I noticed a new (for me) option to set the Grammar Type for Reviews (Fill-in Questiom, Reading Question, etc.). I couldn’t really figure out what each option did from the name alone, is there somewhere I could see the explanation of that setting that I missed?

me too, exactly! Hope someone answers, I’m also confused about what to use.

[I-k-d]

Not sure about the first question, but for the second, the reading option might be similar to the reading cram option, kinda like anki, where the answer is revealed and you mark how well you know it. The manual answer is the normal one where you write in the answer.

[TOKEIPPO]

@I-k-d

Not sure about the first question, but for the second, the reading option might be similar to the reading cram option, kinda like anki, where the answer is revealed and you mark how well you know it. The manual answer is the normal one where you write in the answer.

Should I go with Reading question or Reveal question for reviews? I’m still very lost

[veritas_nz]

It’s perhaps more easy to explain using the images found on the Review Type menu on the bottom of a Vocab/Grammar page!

Basically you choose a Question type and an Answer type individually.

This changes how your questions will appear during Reviews.

[I-k-d]

I personally think the fill in option(with manual input) is best for grammar, and the translate option for vocab, but I think the vocab has been updated since I used fill in so it might be better now

[veritas_nz]

Yup. Definitely Fill-in for Grammar!
Especially if you’re starting out

[Wanyudo]

So when you have a “Fill-in Question / Reveal & Grade Answer” pair in the Grammar settings, you fill in the answer manually and then… grade yourself whether it was correct or not?

Also, any word on my first question regarding Wanikani furigana?

[TOKEIPPO]

Eh, thought about this for a while and I’m pretty sure the reading option (seeing full Japanese sentence and saying what it means) is the best option. The fill in option relies on translating things from English to Japanese, which you should honestly never do.
Just my opinion as a language learner tho. Surely valid for other languages, not sure about Japanese.

[I-k-d]

I think it depends on your goals and how you learn. I live in Japan and since I need to be able to speak and construct my own sentances, the fill in option is definitly better for me, but if you only want to be able to read in japanese I guess doing the reading would be better? Maybe? I can’t really see how it would be but for each their own I suppose.

[CursedKitsune]

I read plenty in Japanese already - fill in works better for grammar as you have to confront the nuance. The difference between expressions with similar meanings or that simply look similar becomes more and more important the higher up you go. This is at least what Bunpro attempts to do with that option and they are succesful the majority of the time, in my opinion. Being forced to type it out does help my output abilities, even if it is only by a tiny bit. Obviously reading/recognition style cards work as well but one of the main values of Bunpro for me is the fact that it offers such a tailored system for cloze style grammar flashcards.

[TOKEIPPO]

Switched to the fill-in type to check it out but but my reviews are all still of the reading variety.
This site is very buggy…

[I-k-d]

I agree it definitly helps with reading

[I-k-d]

Yeah I think that just changes the how your next grammar point is gonna b so u can have a mix of different types of reviews depending on the point, I’m not sure if theres a bunpro-wide reset of grammar set since I’ve always kept the same one, and the reading option is suuper new, but I think you can go into the individual decks and click the option for ‘change all to fill in’ or something