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🇺🇸 English Version: Show Hello everyone! I’m happy to announce that Bunpro is now available in French! image1920×951 69.2 KB image1308×738 67.7 KB Can’t wait? You can change the language right now in your preferences : image1421×519 20.8 KB What’s available in French? You wouldn’t believe how many people have contacted us saying they’d love to use Bunpro in French. So, to make everyone happy, we decided to reveal everything (a little earlier than we originally planned)! French is now available in beta. For now, that includes kana practice and most of the N5 level, although a few things still need polishing . Vocabulary isn’t available in French yet, but we’re working hard to make it available as soon as possible! Our motivation for the French version As I mentioned earlier, many of you were eagerly waiting for a French version of Bunpro (myself included)! French is the 6th most spoken language in the world and an official language in 26 countries. In France, we love Japanese culture, especially thanks to the anime and manga boom of the 80s and 90s. So, you might think it would be easy to find good resources for learning Japanese… But unfortunately, it’s not! There’s a huge lack of quality resources in French: very few up-to-date textbooks, and most websites haven’t been updated in ages. I discovered Japan by chance a few years ago. I already had a strong interest in foreign languages, and I quickly became passionate about Japanese. That’s when I began searching for the method that would work best for me. I had the opportunity to spend a year and a half in Okayama (where I still live), which helped me quite a lot. But the one thing you can’t easily learn through immersion is grammar! That’s when I discovered Bunpro. Even though it was in English, it became an incredibly helpful tool when I was studying for the JLPT N2 exam. In early January, I saw that the Bunpro team had posted a job opening looking for content editors. I applied, and to my surprise, I got the job! During the interviews (and for all the reasons I just mentioned), the idea of translating Bunpro into French came up several times, and over the past few months, it slowly took shape! A few final words I’d like to thank Aime for her hugely appreciated help! And a big thank you to the French-speaking community, I’m sure you’ll let me know soon enough about any translation mistakes I might’ve made (because just like on Bunpro, making mistakes is how we learn). Feel free to contact us at salut@bunpro.jp if you have any questions or feedback! As this is an ongoing project, your feedback is extremely important to us! And most importantly, don’t hesitate to spread the word about Bunpro: the more positive feedback we receive, the faster the next levels (N4, N3…) will come out! I truly hope this French version of Bunpro helps many people discover and fall in love with this fascinating language. Good luck with your Japanese studies! Bonjour à tous ! J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que Bunpro est désormais disponible en français ! image1920×951 69.2 KB Pas le temps d’attendre ? Vous pouvez dès maintenant changer de langue dans les Paramètres de votre compte : image1421×519 20.8 KB Qu'est-ce qui est disponible en français ? Vous n’imaginez pas le nombre de personnes qui nous contactent pour nous dire qu’elles adoreraient utiliser Bunpro en français. Alors pour vous faire plaisir, nous avons décidé de tout vous dévoiler (bien qu’un peu en avance par rapport à notre calendrier) ! Le français est donc disponible en bêta. Pour l’instant, cela inclut l’apprentissage des kana et la majeure partie du niveau N5, bien que quelques détails restent encore à peaufiner . Le vocabulaire n’est pas encore disponible en français, mais nous travaillons d’arrache-pied pour que vous puissiez l’étudier dans les plus brefs délais ! Notre motivation pour le français Comme je l’ai dit un peu plus haut, vous étiez nombreux à attendre avec impatience une version française de Bunpro (moi y compris) ! Le français est quand même la 6ème langue la plus parlée au monde, et langue officielle dans 26 pays. En France, on adore la culture japonaise, surtout depuis les mangas et animes des années 80/90. On pourrait donc se dire qu’il serait facile de trouver des ressources pour apprendre le japonais ! Eh bien malheureusement, non ! Il y a un manque énorme de ressources de qualité en français : peu de manuels récents, et la grande majorité des sites internet n’ont pas été mis à jour depuis une éternité. J’ai découvert le Japon un peu par hasard il y a quelques années. Aimant déjà beaucoup les langues étrangères, je me suis vite trouvé passionné par la langue japonaise et me suis mis en quête de trouver LA méthode qui me conviendrait le mieux pour apprendre cette langue. J’ai eu l’opportunité de venir un an et demi à Okayama (où je vis toujours), ce qui m’a pas mal aidé. Mais la seule chose qui ne peut pas s’apprendre facilement grâce à l’immersion, c’est la grammaire ! C’est à cette époque que j’ai découvert Bunpro, qui (bien qu’étant en anglais) m’a été d’une aide précieuse lors de mes révisions pour le JLPT N2. Début janvier, j’ai vu que l’équipe de Bunpro avait publié une offre d’emploi pour aider avec le contenu du site. J’ai postulé et à ma grande surprise, j’ai été embauché ! Lors de mes entretiens et pour les raisons que j’ai citées plus tôt, l’idée de traduire Bunpro en français est revenue à plusieurs reprises, et elle s’est concrétisée peu à peu ces derniers mois ! Quelques mots pour finir Je tiens à remercier Aime pour m’avoir apporté une aide largement appréciée ! Un grand merci à la communauté francophone qui, j’en suis sûr, saura me faire part des moindres petites erreurs de traduction que j’aurais pu faire (parce que comme sur Bunpro, c’est en se trompant qu’on apprend). N’hésitez pas à nous contacter à salut@bunpro.jp si vous avez des questions ou des commentaires. Comme il s’agit d’un projet en cours, vos retours nous sont extrêmement importants ! Et surtout, n’hésitez pas à parler de Bunpro autour de vous : plus il y aura de retours positifs, plus les niveaux suivants (N4, N3…) arriveront vite ! J’espère que cette version française de Bunpro permettra à de nombreuses personnes de découvrir et d’aimer à leur tour cette langue fascinante. Bonne chance dans vos études du japonais !

Sharable Profile, Cosmetics Shop & Referral Program Hey everyone! We’re excited to announce that a large batch of updates just went live, bringing improvements to both new and long-standing parts of the site. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new and improved: Profile [Updated]: with revamped Overview, Stats, and Badges functionality. B-Points System [New!]: earn point rewards for studying. Shop [New!]: a place to spend your points on cosmetic items to customize your Profile. Share System [Updated]: allows you to show off your customized Profile. Referral Program [New!]: a way to earn badges, points, cosmetics, redeemable subscription time (for yourself or as a gift), and a few other fun surprises! This is a project we’ve been working on behind the scenes, on and off, for the past couple of months. Some features are still in Beta to get feedback, while others are already live and ready to explore! Profile 2.0 [Live] This update replaces the legacy Profile. While the core functionality remains largely the same, we’ve added the new Profile Card and improved the way your data and studying history is presented. We’ve also updated how sharing works to make it easier to show off your profile to friends or teachers/tutors. Overview The overview now offers all of the same information as it did before, however there is now new additional data about your progress, as well as new widgets such as Current Streak and Badges Showcase. The goal is to give you (or anyone viewing your profile, if you’ve set it to ‘public’) a quick snapshot of your progress and a way to show off what you’ve accomplished so far. image1410×774 69.9 KB Looking forward, this change will let us add even more widgets in the future so you can highlight even more of your achievements and milestones. If you have any suggestions on widgets you would find valuable to add, please let us know! Stats Stats still includes all the familiar data points, such as heatmaps and charts, but now also gives you the option to display Learning Data (previously found on the old share page). This will also include what’s coming up next in your Review Queue and Learn Queue and your Recent Reviews. image1000×818 50.1 KB You can use the opt-in setting for sharing learning data here: https://bunpro.jp/settings/share under “Detailed Stats” Badges The new badges view contains new information about your total progress in each badge category. image999×709 130 KB Badges also now have a rarity based on how easy or difficult they are to obtain. Do you have any Legendary ones yet? Sharing You can now publicly share your Profile! This is an opt-in setting that you can toggle in the Share Settings page here. Once this is enabled, anyone with your link will be able to see a snapshot of your stats and progress to date. Profile & Dashboard Card Lastly, one of the key additions to the new Profile is the Profile Card! This lets you add your own personal touch and make your Profile feel unique to you. image415×769 80.4 KB These changes are also reflected on your Dashboard, adding a bit of fun to the Bunpro page you probably visit the most. image405×689 73.7 KB Your Profile Card consists of: Profile Theme This is the main background image and color set of your Card. Frame This frame either partly hugs or goes completely around your avatar. Pins A collection of small cosmetics. You can have between 1-3 active at any time. Title A title that highlights something you are interested in, something you find funny or is something that resonates with you. To be able to customize your Profile Card, you will need to go to the our new Cosmetics Shop! Cosmetics Shop [Beta] The Shop is a brand-new feature on Bunpro! To access it, you’ll need to opt in to the Beta here. Here, you can use your B-Points (more on those below) to buy items that customize your Profile Card or general Bunpro experience! Here are a few examples of Profile Themes, Pins and Frames in the Shop: image1195×828 115 KB image1597×852 233 KB image1198×848 123 KB In the future, you will also be able to purchase yet unreleased cosmetics, like Quiz Backgrounds, that customize other parts of the site. Your Items Under the “My Items” section of the Shop, you can see all of the Cosmetic Items you own. This includes both purchased items as well as ones you have earned throughout your journey. Equipping Items The quickest way to equip any items you’ve acquired would be to go to My Items, click on the one in question, then press the Equip button. Any newly equipped item(s) will replace the previous ones that were. image628×640 104 KB B-Points How do you purchase all these cool new things from the shop? With our new currency system, B-Points! Anytime you study in Bunpro, you’ll earn BP. Here’s a full breakdown of how you can earn them: Reviews: Grammar → Cloze: 10 | Reading: 6 Vocab → Cloze: 6 | Reading: 4 | Manual Input: 3 | Flashcard: 2 You get only get B-Points if you do the reviews. Marking mastered doesn’t earn any B-Points. Unlike XP though, you still get half points even if you miss it. The goal is to reward effort! The differences in points for Vocab and Grammar come down to the fact that most Vocab reviews are generally much easier, and also require little to no conjugation. Reading Passages: 300 each Cram: 1 per item, regardless of type Extending Your Streak: Streak 1-100 → 100 per day Streak 100-365 → 150 per day Streak 365+ → 200 per day Referrals: Bonus 2000 for starting your Hike! 100 for each basic referral signup 90k total earnable across all Station rewards. All accounts were awarded B-Points for any past activity, so you can see what you have by visiting your Profile or the Shop. Looking to get more B-Points? Check out the Referral Program Referral Program [Beta] Welcome to 文士山 (Mt. Bunji) image1902×605 51.2 KB Since Bunpro’s inception many years ago, a massive driving force behind its growth has always been word-of-mouth referrals. We felt that it’s time you started actually getting rewarded for all you’ve done for us - which is how our new Referral Program was born! How it Works When you share your referral link, new users that signup using it become your referrals. Both you and your referral will earn some B-Points and people who signup with your link will get an extended six-week trial instead of the normal four-week one. If one of your referrals becomes a premium member, you will earn Referral Points (RP). Depending on their membership, you will earn 1 RP (Monthly), 10 RP (Yearly) or 30 RP (Lifetime). All renewals earn full RP, forever. Upgrades and discounted memberships earn RP equivalent to the prorated/discounted amount. Your Referral Points move you further along your Hike to the summit of Mt. Bunji. Each time you reach the required RP for a Station, you will unlock exclusive rewards which you can then redeem. image1242×688 81.9 KB Start your ascent up Mt. Bunji. You can also access the referrals page through the navbar or in your settings. Rewards The new Referral Program allows you to earn: B-Points Exclusive Badges and Cosmetics Redeemable Subscription Time This includes monthly, yearly and lifetime memberships that you can either use for yourself or gift to others! There is even a cool real life cosmetic you can earn at one of the stations! image1104×857 210 KB Redeemable Subscription Time Any Redeemable Subscription Time you earn from a Station will be available on your account to do with as you choose. If you want to redeem it for yourself you can, or you can easily share it with someone else. That means if you already have a Lifetime membership, you can earn another one to give away! Just another reminder – if you’d like to access the Referral Program and the Shop, you’ll need to opt in to the Beta, which you can do here. Wrapping Up We’re really excited to finally get this update into everyone’s hands! We hope that it’s all one step in the right direction towards making your Bunpro day-to-day experience more fun and exciting to use. Our goal for the Shop in particular is to keep things regularly updated (when time permits) so you always have a reason to keep up your study and earn more B-Points for the next cosmetic drop! Outside of this release, we have our ongoing Related Grammar breakdown releases with N2 being worked on currently. We are also working on new grammar. Beyond that, there are a couple of overhauls to existing parts of the site in the pipeline including Review settings (adding more options for types, srs settings and so on) and Reworking how we teach grammar to make it a more holistic experience rather than just grammar point by grammar point. Everything we do is driven by amazing people like you providing feedback and suggestions on how we can improve the Japanese learning experience. As always, we truly are grateful to have the best users out there! Thank you, Bunpro Team

Hi, All Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve just released Japanese translations for all N2 grammar explanations! Why did we make this? Last year, we released the Japanese explanations for N1 grammar as announced here. As we mentioned then, this feature is for anyone who wants to learn grammar in Japanese. It helps you get more exposure to Japanese and encourages you to think in Japanese while learning. What kind of Japanese is used? The N2 explanations are written in simple and plain Japanese - generally easier than the N1 explanations. We only use grammar points that you’ve already learned by that level. As for vocabulary, most words are N2 level or lower. A few might be a bit more advanced, but don’t worry - we make sure they are commonly used in daily life or Japanese language classes. Now with Furigana! We’ve added furigana to all kanji in N2 grammar explanations - and N1, too! As always, you can click the kanji to turn the furigana on or off. That way, you don’t need to look up readings each time you see a tricky kanji. (Also, while adding furigana to the N1 explanations, we made a few small wording updates to improve readability!) How to switch between English and Japanese? Just click the switch button in the top-right corner of any grammar explanation. Once you switch, your setting will apply across all grammar pages. Screenshot 2025-05-17 at 10.16.511666×304 34 KB Screenshot 2025-05-17 at 10.14.311787×330 51.6 KB So, what’s next? We’re not exactly sure yet how far we’ll go with this feature, but for now, we’re planning to at least cover N3 grammar explanations in Japanese. We’re still thinking about the best way to explain them, since N3 includes many basic grammar points that are often used in writing. That said, many Japanese textbooks also start offering Japanese-only explanations around the N3 level, so we think it’s a natural next step! Thank you always for your support and for being part of the Bunpro community. We hope this will be helpful for even more learners! 一緒に頑張りましょう！

It has been a while since we made an update post. お待たせしました。 Today we have a spicy little meatball of an update for you. Introducing… Related Grammar Descriptions Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 15.15.521744×1190 246 KB This update is a somewhat simple, but hopefully useful one. We have had our Grammar Geniuses™️ (don’t sue us Apple) go through and add some explanation text to the Related Grammar section. Currently it is only available for N5, but we are working to get N4 and beyond all covered in the coming weeks and months. How to use: Click anywhere on the item to expand the text, or click “Expand All” to expand them all at the same time! Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 15.14.45 copy880×548 45.8 KB To open the Grammar in a new window, click the icon. Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 15.17.05876×372 21.3 KB Quick Cram We’ve also added a Quick Cram button to the top right of this section, so you can study the current Grammar Point alongside all the Related Grammar! Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 15.15.52 copy1744×475 51.9 KB Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 15.15.401362×1328 101 KB We have a lot of other even spicier meatballs cooking in the kitchen, but here is one to keep you satiated until the mains arrive. 🧑‍🍳 The Bunpro Team

Major Changes New version: 0.4.1+242 Release for the App Store The App has finally been fully released to the App Store. We encourage everyone to install the app using the App Store, as TestFlight will now be used for beta testing, and the current testing branch will be gradually phased out. You won’t lose data if you had testflight version installed previously. You can get it here: APP In app payments: There is now in-app support for purchasing a Bunpro Subscription extension. We highly recommend using the onsite option as it is cheaper due to the included app store fees. Additionally, in-app purchases are consumable rather than recurring so they wont automatically renew. Improvements: Dashboard on tablet has been changed so that it uses the available space better. Changed the directionality of button icons, now they are located on the left side of the buttons Added vocab bookmarks Bug fixes: Fixed cram collapsing all the tiles in textbook tab, on adding new grammar/vocab to the cram list Other bug fixes Thank you so much for your help during the test flight phase! Thanks to your feedback, we’ve been able to fix bugs quickly and produce new features. We believe that 2025 will see huge improvements to the app side of Bunpro. Please continue sharing your thoughts whenever you can. We read every piece of feedback and are constantly working to make the app more user-friendly. PS: Please leave us a review on the App Store!

🇺🇸 English Version: Show Hello everyone! I’m very happy to announce that Bunpro is now available in Spanish! image1890×1007 69.3 KB To switch to the Spanish version, simply go to your preferences and select Spanish/Español under the Language option. image966×334 12.2 KB This has been a long-term project quietly in the works. Many of you may have already noticed hints like posts in Spanish here in the forums, the new Community, or our new support email hola@bunpro.jp. Completing this version has also allowed us to implement features like Immersion Mode and opens up the possibility of translating Bunpro into other languages. What’s available in Spanish? The Absolute Beginner module and most of N5 are now available in Spanish. All content has been rewritten and localized for Spanish speakers. The goal was to use neutral Spanish that would be widely understandable, while adding examples and explanations tailored to Spanish speakers. We’re currently polishing some final details, so if you spot something that could be improved, please report it or email us at hola@bunpro.jp. Once those final touches are done, we’ll start translating N4. There’s no set timeline yet, but it’s on our radar. Why Spanish? This is going to get personal, and I might write a lot. So, buckle up. As many of you know, I’m from Mexico, and Spanish is my native language. Several years ago, when I wanted to start studying Japanese, I was frustrated by the lack of quality resources available in my language and country. They didn’t meet my expectations, and in some cases, there weren’t any options at all. That’s when I started looking for alternatives. I’m fortunate enough to speak English fluidly, which gave me access to popular resources like WaniKani, Genki, A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar… and Bunpro. My Japanese level improved, and in 2019, I had the chance to go to Japan and live there for six months. It was an incredible experience that gave me life-changing memories and relationships. I’m deeply grateful for that opportunity. I returned to Mexico in early 2020 due to the pandemic. I kept studying, with the goal of achieving N2 and hopefully returning to Japan someday. My study routine helped me stay grounded during those times. About a year after returning, I saw that Bunpro had a design position open. I applied (with a half-empty email sent by accident, followed by a second email apologizing for it ). To my surprise, after a few weeks and interviews, I joined the team on July 2021. I remember proposing a Spanish version of the service during my first interview. I explained how difficult it was to access quality resources in Spanish or materials designed from a Spanish speaker’s perspective. I saw how Bunpro could help others who, like me, wanted to learn Japanese in Spanish. Learning Japanese was life-changing for me, and since joining Bunpro, I’ve worked hard to make that transformation accessible to more people. The Spanish version is but one result of that effort. Since joining Bunpro, I worked on small things for the translation during my free time. When those small efforts started shaping up to something more complete, we connected seeked out external help, and connected with three key members from our community: @Pablunpro, @Jose7822, and @albcasahu. They’ve been instrumental in completing the Spanish version, and we couldn’t have done it without them. Final Words Once again, I want to thank the community and the extraordinary chain of events that brought me here, working on the official Spanish translation of Bunpro. If you notice anything that seems off, don’t forget to report it, and feel free to email us at hola@bunpro.jp with any questions or feedback. I would also like to ask everyone to share the new Spanish Site, (Bunpro.jp/es) and to follow us on our new Spanish accounts: Threads Instagram With that, I wish you all the best in your studies, and thank you again for being here with us. See you next time! ¡Hola a todos! Estoy muy feliz de anunciar que Bunpro ya está disponible en Español. image1890×1007 69.3 KB Para accesar a la versión en Español, simplemente ve a tus preferencias y en la parte de Language/Idioma, elige Spanish/Español. image966×334 12.2 KB Ha sido un proyecto que se ha estado trabajando lentamente de fondo, con muchos de ustedes ya habiendo notado cosas como los posts en Español aquí, la nueva Comunidad o el nuevo correo de soporte hola@bunpro.jp. Tener todo listo para poder tener esta versión en Español es lo que nos permitió poder implementar cosas como el Modo de Inmersión, y abre la posibilidad de traducir Bunpro a otros idiomas. ¿Qué está ya en Español? El módulo de cero absoluto y la mayoría de N5 ya está disponible en Español. Todo el contenido ha sido reescrito y localizado para hispanobalantes. El objetivo fue encontrar un Español suficientemente neutro para ser entendible en la mayoría de los casos, y usar ejemplos y explicaciones adicionales que se apoyen del Español. Por el momento estamos cerrando los últimos detalles por lo que si encuentras algo que puede mejorar, por favor repórtalo o escríbenos a hola@bunpro.jp. Tan pronto esos detalles estén completados, comenzaremos a traducir N4. No tenemos una fecha determinada, pero sí está en el radar. ¿Por qué Español? Voy a hablar desde una perspectiva muy personal, y posiblemente escribir mucho. Así que, agárrense. Como muchos de ustedes ya lo saben, yo soy de México, y el Español es mi lengua nativa. Hace varios años, cuando quería comenzar a estudiar Japonés, sentí una frustración fuerte con la oferta que existía en ese momento de opciones para aprender Japonés en mi idioma, y en mi país. No eran lo que yo esperaba, y en algunos casos ni siquiera existía una opción. Fue ahí donde comencé a buscar alguna alternativa. Tengo el privilegio de dominar muy bien el inglés, lo que me dio acceso a recursos muy populares como WaniKani, Genki, A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar… y Bunpro. Mi nivel de japonés fue subiendo, y en el 2019 tuve la oportunidad de ir a Japón y vivir allá durante 6 meses. Fue una experiencia increíble y forjé recuerdos y relaciones que genuinamente me cambiaron la vida. De verdad que me siento profundamente agradecido por haber tenido esa oportunidad. Regresé a México a inicios del 2020 por la pandemia. Sin embargo, continué con mis estudios, en ese entonces teniendo la meta de conseguir un N2 y poder volver a Japón algún día. Pienso que mi rutina de estudio me ayudó mucho a no perder la cabeza. Aproximadamente un año después de que regresé, noté que en Bunpro se había abierto una vacante de diseño, a la cual apliqué (mandando un correo incompleto por un error de dedo, seguido de otro correo disculpándose por el pasado ) y sorprendentemente, un par de semanas y entrevistas después, me uní oficialmente al equipo en Julio del 2021 . Recuerdo que desde mi primer entrevista, había propuesto hacer una versión en Español del servicio. Expliqué cómo es difícil accesar a información de calidad en mi idioma, o pensada desde la perspectiva de un hispanobalante, y cómo podríamos usar Bunpro para apoyar a todas esas personas que como yo en ese entonces, quieren aprender Japonés en su idioma. Para mi aprender Japonés fue algo que me cambió la vida, y desde que trabajo en Bunpro me esfuerzo mucho porque más personas puedan tener esa transformación. La versión en Español es para mi un resultado de ese deseo. Desde que entré a Bunpro estuve haciendo pequeños esfuerzos durante tiempos muertos para comenzar a traducir el contenido. Cuando ese cúmulo de esfuerzos hizo camino a algo más completo, tuvimos la oportunidad de conectar con 3 miembros clave para la traducción: @Pablunpro , @Jose7822 , y @albcasahu , quienes han estado trabajando con nosotros desde hace un tiempo para poder completar la versión en Español, y que sin ellos no hubiéramos logrado completarla. Palabras Finales Nuevamente quiero agradecer todo el esfuerzo de la comunidad y a la extraordinaria cadena de situaciones que me permitió estar aquí, trabajando en la traducción oficial de Bunpro. Cualquier tema que notes fuera de lugar, recuerda repórtarlo, y siempre puedes escríbenos a hola@bunpro.jp con cualquier tema que quieras tratar. También me gustaría aprovechar para pedirles que compartan el nuevo sitio en Español. (Bunpro.jp/es) y que nos sigan en nuestras cuentas para la versión en Español: Threads Instagram Sin más que decir, te deseo lo mejor en tus estudios, y nuevamente gracias por leernos y estar aquí. ¡Hasta la próxima!

Happy New Year All! Today we have the huge pleasure of being able to officially introduce a project that has been in the works for several months now, and that I have been dying to leak, but somehow managed to keep under wraps… A complete revamp of the audio on Bunpro! Just how complete? Complete complete. As some of you may have already noticed in N5, there is a completely new set of female voice recordings. This will be happening with the male recordings as well, and will apply to all of the audio on the website TTSは？ 👀 This includes the replacement of all the AI generated TTS (text-to-speech) Vocab audio too! (eventually) The male recordings are still processing, but we already have all of the female content, so all the way through N1 will be getting added to the site within the next few weeks! Oh, and also, this also includes new audio for all of the Reading Passages! What makes it so special? I am glad you asked! Here is a list of some of the things you will notice straight away with the new recordings: Character voices As we are using professional Japanese voice actors, we encouraged them to use any of their character voices that they felt fit the sentences or scripts they were reading. If you’re really keen-eared, you may even recognize a voice from one of their professional game/anime works! Check out some of them in the readings! N4 reading examples. Quality As it has all been professionally recorded, the editing itself is also top-notch! It’s an absolute joy to listen to and will have you creating ghosts just because you wanna hear them over and over again! Audio Player Feature Additions The audio is getting an upgrade, so we also of course had to update our player! As some of you may know, these have been available for a while now, but we’ve only just found the right announcement to talk about them: Timestamps in Reading Passages Navigate to and from each individual sentence within Reading Passages! Stuck on something in particular in one of our longer passages? Play the part that you are having trouble with again, or just play the same sentence over and over because you’re having a good time! “Alternating” gender mode for Examples Want to hear both, the genders for a particular sentence during Reviews? Now you can change your Preferred Voice Gender to “Alternate”, and the audio will switch backwards and forwards between the Male and Female voice actors. This can be set in the Voice Preferences menu (the audio player settings popout): Screenshot 2025-01-07 at 21.06.141326×870 55.9 KB Thanks to @discopatrick for the great suggestion! Playback Speed Slider A few users mentioned that ‘Slow’ mode was a bit too slow, and normal speed was a bit too fast. So we’ve given you a slider to adjust, to specify exactly what speed fits your listening ability. This too can be found in the audio player settings. Screenshot 2025-01-07 at 21.10.23636×520 21.9 KB That about wraps it up! All of this audio will slowly be released over the coming weeks (for Grammar) and months (for Vocab), but we were so excited about it, and wanted to start this year off with a bang! We hope all of your studies this year go smoothly, and we look forward to what 2025 will bring. Lastly, a massive thank you to @Haru who has been voicing all of the Bunpro audio for the last several years. The time and effort that you put into the voice recordings in order to make all of our learning experiences better will not be forgotten! Each and every one of us on the team and within the community appreciate your colossal efforts!

It is hard to believe 2024 is almost over, but that means it is time for the third annual Bunpro Year End Recap! Your 2024 Recap This year we included vocab data (if you have been studying vocab on Bunpro)! It can be easy to get caught up in all your reviews and miss the forest for the trees. Whether you study numerous hours every day, or a few hours a week, the fact that you’ve stuck with learning Japanese is a feat in and of itself. We hope that with this recap you’re able to truly see the great progress you made this year in Bunpro! Some food for thought: Think about any aspect of your learning that you struggled with at the beginning of the year. Whether it was a tough grammar point or struggling to follow an episode of your favorite show in Japanese, it may be worthwhile to revisit those before the end of the year to show yourself just how far you’ve come in such a short time! It was a ton of fun seeing all of the charts that were posted in the yearly recap threads the past two years, as well as reading what your thoughts on the year were + your future goals, so please continue to do that again this year! From all of us here at Bunpro, thanks for making 2024 another exciting year for us . Thank you for continuing to use and support us with such passion and enthusiasm year after year. See you all next year! 良いお年を! The Bunpro Team

Some things are meant to go together: Hot chocolate & marshmallows , Nara deer & bowing for biscuits and Bunpro & an annual Lifetime Sale! From now through roughly the 7th of January 2025, all lifetime subscriptions will be on sale for $120 (down from their usual price of $150). As always, if you are currently subscribed and decide to upgrade, you will be prorated for any unused time on your current subscription. We’d like to split this post into three categories - Past, Present, and Future. Let’s start by taking a look at an overview of additions and adjustments we made to the site in 2024! Content Updates: Practice reading Japanese: New and improved Reading Passages for all levels Expand beyond the JLPT: New every-day grammar like ～やがる and おおよそ. Fully immerse: N1 grammar explanations entirely in Japanese. Improve your reading comprehension: Over 40,000 new Vocab example sentences for words of all levels. Built in Dictionary: JMDict information is now integrated into our Vocabu definitions. Hone your Pronunciation: Pitch accent audio for Vocab. Platform Updates: Better first experience: Revamped our onboarding and added a new user tour. Control what and how you learn: Our new Learn Queue & Daily Goal lets you set up your study flow and pace to fit your needs. Vocab Cram: Improved Cram’s interface and options to cram Vocab & Decks. GoKana Arcade Game: A fun way for new (and old) learners to test their Kana skills. Create and Share Custom Decks: Build your own custom Grammar & Vocab Decks to learn from or share with friends. This includes a text import tool, allowing you to import from sources such as Anki. Optimize your Learning: Improved SRS intervals and big quality of life improvements such as ghosts and self study reviews for Vocab Improved mobile experience: Expanded functionality and improved the UI with plans for a full release in 2025. After a busy year last year, we kept our foot on the gas and pushed out a lot of updates to the site this year! Our theme this year was 進化（しんか）- “evolution/progress/improvement”, as a lot of the work this year revolved around changing and improving the existing experience of using the site. Things like overhauling how and what you study, improving the SRS algo, adding a bunch of QoL improvements like JMDict info and vocab ghosts/self study. As is tradition now, last year we laid out for you what we had on our horizons for 2024 to get you excited as a Bunpro user - let’s see how we did! Looking back on our goals for 2024 from one year ago: Release 75-100 new grammar points from our list, including some N0 content. We only fully released about 20 But we have a lot more in varying states of completion and have also been adding new ones to our list of grammar we want to add. We will be focusing more effort toward getting that grammar released this coming year. Full overhaul of decks including but not limited to: adjustments to the content in existing decks and a “Bunpro order”, ability to create and share your own decks. Done, plus custom decks are in beta! A better search Done! Finishing and releasing N2 and N1 vocab sentences, translations and fill in the blank/reading reviews. Done! New Reading Passages and an update to existing ones (rewriting to reflect and obey the new grammar ordering). Done! A full release of the mobile app. Done for Android, quite close for iOS (only waiting on supporting in app subscriptions) While we have been teasing it for a long time, maybe 2024 will actually be the year of the Bunpro Merch store. 2025 for sure! With all the requests we get to add kanji info to the site, we might begin to explore what that looks like. Maybe 2025 Start adding the additional vocab lists as studyable decks with cloze translations, aiming for at least 5 new decks of 1000 words each translated in 2024, each with 8 example sentences. Made good progress on adding a lot of sentences (over 100k currently on the site) but no specific decks yet for the additional lists. Add tense/similar information for ever single grammar review on the website (almost done!) Done Rerecording of all female audio on the website with a far better microphone! (N5 will be finished very soon!) We have newly recorded audio for grammar by professional voice actors/actresses. This is in post production. Have already begun the beta production of a relatively large scale project that will integrate students even more with their external teachers and forms of study… More info coming! Released the Teacher Dashboard! Japanese/English hints for N3, N2, and possibly even N1 vocab! Currently in progress! Our Goals for 2025 Finish and Release 50-75 new grammar points from our list. A profile overhaul to make it a more useful and fun part of the site. N1 Reading passages New professional audio for grammar and real audio to replace the TTS that vocab has. A full release of the mobile app followed by some design overhauls and changes to take advantage of app only functionality. The future might finally be hear and 2025 may actually be the year of the Bunpro Merch store. Explore adding some sort of kanji aspect to the site, if only the information and ability to see vocab that share kanji. Japanese/English hints for Vocab from N3 on. Explore translating Bunpro into other languages (currently we offer a Spanish translation of N5 that hasn’t been officially released yet). And that’s it! Another year in the books for Bunpro! We say it every year but everything we do is shaped by your feedback, both positive and negative. Bunpro would not be anywhere close to the site it is today without all of you, so thank you for everything you do! All of us here at the team hope that no matter how you are spending the holidays, you are having an enjoyable time. See you in 2025!

Happy BunsGiving 2024! BunsGiving is back again this year! Whether you celebrate it as Thanksgiving, 勤労感謝の日, or as just another day in late November, what better time of the year than now to show someone how much you care by giving them the Gift of Grammar™! Why spread the Gift of Grammar™? Over the years, we have had users reach out about gifting Bunpro subscriptions to friends and family. While this has always unofficially been a thing, with the success of BunsGiving a couple years ago, we made it an official time of the year here! Starting today, through next Monday, all gifted subscriptions are 20% off! Share the joy of tackling new grammar, smashing a tall stack of reviews, exorcizing pesky ghosts, and seeing your JLPT progress bars slowly fill up. Not to mention the pure joy of synonym hell, the fear of losing motivation to study daily to keep your streak, or yet another color update!! Bunpro truly has something for everyone. So if there is someone you would like to support or encourage, whether it is a friend, a family member, or even that someone special , a Bunpro subscription is the perfect gift for any occasion. How can I gift a subscription? We streamlined the progress this year. Simply log into your Bunpro account, access your subscription page here: Subscription Page and fill in the Bunsgiving Form. The email address or Bunpro username you want to send the gift to How much subscription time you’d like to gift. Lastly, if you would like to include a message to the person you are gifting it to, please let us know. Alternatively, you can gift it anonymously as well. We will send you an invoice for the subscription time you wish to gift that you can pay for via PayPal. Once we have a transaction ID, we will apply it to their account. The sale prices are as follows: Length Price 1 month $5 → $4 1 year $50 → $40 Lifetime $150 → $120 Custom Depends on length Black Friday Lifetime Sale Maybe that special someone in need of a little grammar TLC is you. While the Bunsgiving Sale is active, you can give yourself the Gift of Grammar directly with a discounted lifetime membership ($120). See your subscription page for details. Annual Lifetime Sale The BunsGiving Sale on subscriptions is separate from the upcoming annual sale on lifetime memberships ($120) that will begin in late December. As always, the Bunpro team is eternally grateful for the continued support and feedback everyone provides. You are what we are thankful for this BunsGiving Season. いつもありがとうございます。 Bonus festive prose (with a lot of editing) from ChatGPT The air is thick and warm, like the promise of comfort and chaos in equal measure. It’s the scent of grammar reviews slowly coming due, releasing an earthy aroma that mingles with the sweet waft of cinnamon and cloves from Thanksgiving dinner. Your fingers tingle for the excitement of synonyms and at least one “Can you say it another way?” in your upcoming review session. The air smells like memories, too: the sweetness of N5 grammar being mastered, the frustration of N3’s synonym hell, and of course, the pure ecstasy you felt when reading an N1 grammar writeup all in Japanese for the first time. It’s the smell of familiarity, of huddling over the keyboard, of a million tiny moments stitched together over years, each one leaving its own linguistic mark. You can almost taste it, thick and heavy, as the interface pulls you in, filling you with a hunger for knowledge, nostalgia, and the quiet joy of tradition. It’s Bunsgiving—before the first new grammar of the day, before the chaos of a review pile too large to tackle in one sitting, right there in the stillness lies the promise that everything else will be just as it should.