Hi everyone~
It’s been a long time since I’ve last been here. I noticed that Bunpro is testing SRS vocabulary in its beta app.
Is Bunpro competing with Wanikani?
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Wanikani isn’t built to learn vocabulary but kanjis. The vocabulary are there so that they can be used to reinforce the kanjis.
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Personally I think Wanikani is terrible for learning vocab. It is a kanji learning website not a vocab learning website. But I think of it more as they aren’t competing with anyone this is a grammar website but since the infrastructure is already there…also offering the vocab. I mean why not right? I don’t think it’ll ever put anki or something out of business but it’s definitely a nice way to easily learn to recognize the meaning of some kanji. But you don’t really properly learn the kanji from the vocab decks.
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Wanikani is a terrible way of learning vocabulary, I wouldn’t say it’s competing with that.
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edit note: I am responding to the thread and not you directly, but I clicked the wrong button haha.
It makes for an integrated learning experience and vocabulary is more important than Kanji in the long run. After X number of kanji you can easily pick up the rest as your learn vocabulary. Concerted studying of the meaning of kanji has its benefits; I still do it. But they way wanikani teaches does not really suit even that very well.
Bunpro teaching vocab actively enhances the grammar they are trying to teach. As you get further and further along, the context that grammar come up in naturally have more formal or esoteric words and being able to learn them on site is very nice.
This guy has a very interesting analysis of if. He is talking from a Chinese perspective but I think it directly applies to Japanese as well, if not more as Japanese is not 100% characters like Chinese it.
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