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UI Designer Role We are seeking a versatile and passionate designer with a strong focus on UI, visual identity, and branding. In this role, you will help shape the visual language of Bunpro. You will work on web and app UI, branding assets, marketing visuals, and design systems that create a cohesive, fun and engaging experience for our users. During your first year at Bunpro, you will take a major role in refining our overall brand identity and establishing a unified visual direction for our platforms and community. If you love crafting beautiful user interfaces, building recognizable brands, and designing for clarity and purpose—we’d love to hear from you! Requirements Experience: 3-5+ years of experience working in design, in particular UI/UX, Graphic Design, or Branding. Skills: Basic Copy Writing, Advanced Figma, Creative Suite of your choice. (We use Affinity) Design Mindset: Strong design fundamentals: color, typography, grids, layout, spacing, hierarchy and visual consistency. Creativity & Problem-Solving: Ability to think critically from a user and brand perspective. Collaboration: Comfortable communicating design ideas and iterating based on feedback. Brand Awareness: Experience building, refining, or expanding a brand identity / style guide (preferably in a start-up or growth focused environment.) Nice-to-Haves (Not Required) Familiarity with Bunpro (or experience learning Japanese) and a passion for language learning and education. Experience designing components for web or mobile. Knowledge of UX principles and accessibility. Illustration / graphic design skills. Marketing or social media campaign design experience. How to Apply If you’re interested in applying, please send an email to admin@bunpro.jp containing the following: Your resume and your most up-to-date portfolio showcasing UI, branding, or graphic design work. One example case study (it does not need to be from a real project - we want to understand how you think and solve design problems). Plus: answers to the following questions: Why are you interested in Bunpro and this role in particular? What are the top three professional strengths you would bring to this role? What two professional/career highlights are you most proud of? Why? Can you describe your design workflow from concept to final deliverables? Salary Base:￥5–7m depending on experience and skill set Here is the link to the job listing: UI Designer Role Not a designer? Not a problem! If someone you know would be a good fit for the role, we would love it if you would share it with them! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Thank you!

It’s that time again… BUNSGIVING IS BACK, BABY! Whether you celebrate it as Thanksgiving, 勤労感謝の日, or 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™! Starting today (25th Nov), through next Wednesday (3rd Dec), all gifted subscriptions are 20% off! We have packed a lot into this year’s Bunsgiving, so read the full post to find out what has been done! TL;DR: New Gifting/Bunsgiving page Created a Donation Pool where you can donate or request subscription tokens – we match all donations! Free limited-time-only Bunsgiving cosmetics Bunsgiving? The Gift of Grammar™? Over the years, we have had users reach out about gifting Bunpro subscriptions to friends and family. We turned this into a dedicated event (Bunsgiving) a few years back. With how successful Bunsgiving was the last couple of years, and the time it takes each year to process all the gifting, we have decided to make it a dedicated feature. We have created a new Bunsgiving page, that you can use to buy gift Subscription Tokens and donate to the Donation Pool How can I gift a subscription? This year it’s very simple. Visit the Gifting page, and click on one of the big nuggets: Screenshot 2025-11-24 at 17.46.552462×966 349 KB Follow the purchase flow, and you will be emailed a unique token that you can send to that special someone. The codes of purchased/unredeemed tokens can also be viewed in the Available Gift Codes part of your Subscription Settings. The Bunsgiving sale prices are as follows: Length Price 1 month $5 → $4 3 months (new) $15 → $12 1 year $50 → $40 Lifetime $150 → $120 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 ($150 → $120). See your subscription page for details. PS. The Bunsgiving Sale on Lifetime memberships is separate from the upcoming annual sale of lifetime memberships ($120) that will begin in late December. 🏊‍♂ Community Pool Our Mission Whether it is how we build the platform, our recent localization efforts, or making learning material freely available (like our recent release of 25 full JLPT practice tests), our mission to make Japanese learning more accessible is a core part of why we do what we do. However the premium and expanded features that we offer (SRS, progress tracking, cram etc) all require a subscription, and while Bunpro is one of, if not the cheapest paid tool out there, sometimes not everyone has the means to utilize these tools on an ongoing basis. Behind the Scenes From time to time, individuals reach out to us about their circumstances or socioeconomic struggles, and we do our best to grant free subscription time where we can. At the same time we also have generous users who reach out to gift subscription time to be granted to users on an as needed basis. We decided to formalize and combine these into the Community Pool. The Pool We have initially stocked the Community Pool with 1200 months of subscription time! image1249×1269 105 KB Any user who is struggling or unable to afford a subscription can apply for a six month subscription from the pool. This will open a custom support ticket. We will look at account activity, forum activity and the information provided to help us make an informed decision about the application. Donating Any user who has the means and is feeling generous can also contribute to the pool by donating Tokens. We will match every donation made, month-for-month. That means that for every 3 month donated to the pool by the community, a learner in need will be able to receive a 6 month subscription to keep their journey going. Donations can be made anonymously. There is an activity display showing donations as well as distributions from the pool (distributions are always anonymous). image1227×926 75.9 KB Note: This is just an example to show what it looks like The Community Pool is a bit of a social experiment for Bunpro. We couldn’t find many examples to use as inspiration or to know what to expect. We ultimately went with this approach because it allows us to standardize giving subscription time to those in need while amplifying the impact of any user contributions. Free Stuff Last, we have some FREE Bunsgiving-themed items available in the B-Point Shop! For a limited time only, during the Bunsgiving period (25th Nov – 3rd Dec). Snag them quick! 1758×1330 198 KB 2758×1332 262 KB As always, we are eternally grateful for the continued support and feedback everyone provides! You are what we are thankful for this Bunsgiving Season. With love, The Bunpro Team

Hey Everyone! Today, I would like to make an announcement regarding the N3 grammar hints! Unique Hints Over the past few month, we have gone through a large number of attempted answers for N3 grammar and added a bout 12,000-ish new hints. These new hints have been written in a way that better guides learners to the answer we are looking for. For example, for the grammar point ようとしない, if the answer we are looking for is 諦めようとしない and a student submits あきらめそうもない, it would trigger a hint that says 'This indicates some particular action doesn’t seem likely. We’re looking for a grammar point that uses the volitional form, expresses strong reluctance, and means ‘makes no attempt to do (A)’ or ‘is not willing to do (A)’. As with the N4 hint update, we decided to write new unique hints instead of solely relying on our standard hints so that you can clearly tell which grammar point we are looking for, instead of getting stuck in a loop of potentially similar answers. Clear distinction between Alternate and Wrong answers We followed the same criteria as we did when we created the new N4 hints when writing the N3 hints. Alternate answers : Correct grammar and conjugation, but tense or politeness is off Example: 食べる instead of 食べます. Not the targeted grammar point, but meaning is close Example: くらい instead of 頃. (This is a grey area, but if it makes sense in the context of the sentence, we count it as an alternate answer, but if it does not we count it as a wrong answer). Slight entry errors Example: ちゆう instead of ちゅう. Wrong Answers : Incorrect grammar usage Example: Using にくい when やすい should be used. Ungrammatical answers Example: Incorrect conjugation and ungrammatical use of grammar points. Final Notes With this update, we only added hints for attempted answers that currently lacked hints, and did not make changes to already existing hints. However, we will likely go through existing hints to ‘fine tune’ them so that they follow the same format, and to improve our hint system for grammar points that have less helpful hints even further. We will also go through attempted answers for other N levels and add hints for those in the near future. Look out for another post when some of those are done! Thank you for your continuous support and feedback that helps make Bunpro a great learning tool! We hope that this update improves your learning journey!

Hi, All お待たせしました for everyone who wants to learn N3 Japanese grammar in Japanese! We’re happy to announce that N3 Japanese grammar explanations are now available! I’m going to post this in Japanese first, then in English. Let’s try reading it in Japanese! (If you’d prefer to read in English, please scroll down!) 何のために作ったの？ 日本語で文法を勉強したい人のために作りました。日本語で考えながら文法を学びたい人、もう少しむずかしいことをしたい人、英語で学ぶのがむずかしいと感じている人に特におすすめです。 日本語のレベルはどれくらい？ 文法の説明には、そのレベルまでに習った文法だけを使っています。できるだけ簡単な表現や単語、漢字（だいたいN3レベルまで）を使うようにしました。ときどき、少し難しい文法の言葉が出てくるかもしれませんが、全体として読みやすくてわかりやすい日本語を目指しました。 また、すべての漢字にはふりがなが付いています どうやって日本語に変えるの？ 文法の説明ページの右上にあるボタンを押してください。そうすると、かんたんに日本語に変えることができます。一度日本語にすると、ほかの文法ページも日本語になります。また、同じボタンから、いつでも英語に戻すことができます。 image975×244 41.9 KB メモ もとの英語の説明は、英語の単語を使って日本語を説明していることがあります。例えば、‘In English, this is similar to XXX…’ や ‘This translates as ‘YYY’, ‘ZZZ’, and similar expressions in English.’ のような表現です。 日本語の説明は、このような英語をそのまま訳していません。日本語としてわかりやすくするために、内容や文の順番を少し変えています。そのため、英語と日本語はぴったり同じというわけではありません。どうぞ、ご理解ください いつもフィードバックやコミュニティで協力してくれて、本当にありがとうございます！この新しい機能が、みなさんの学習のお役に立ちますように。もし何か気づいたことがあれば、ぜひ教えてください！ではでは、これからも一緒にがんばりましょう～！ Here is the English version What’s the purpose? This feature helps you immerse yourself in Japanese by learning grammar directly in it. It’s recommended, for example, for learners who want to think about grammar in Japanese, who are looking for an extra challenge, or for non-native English speakers who find it difficult to study it through English. What level of Japanese is used? The grammar explanations only use the grammar you’ve already learned at that level. We try to use simple expressions, vocabulary, and kanji (mostly up to N3 level) as much as possible. There might be some advanced grammar terms, but overall the explanations should be easy to read and understand. Also, all kanji have furigana How to switch between English and Japanese? It’s easy! Just tap the button on the top-right corner of the grammar explanation screen. You can always switch between the two languages. Once you switch the language, your setting will apply across all grammar pages! image975×244 41.9 KB Note The original English versions sometimes explain Japanese using English words, for example, ‘In English, this is similar to XXX…’ or ‘This translates as ‘YYY’, ‘ZZZ’, and similar expressions in English.’. So, we adjusted the content and wording instead of translating it directly. We also changed the word order in some places to make it easier to understand. Please note that the English and Japanese versions may not always match exactly Thank you as always for supporting us through your feedback, community participation, and everything you do! We hope this new feature becomes a helpful tool to support and boost your Japanese learning. If you notice anything, we’d appreciate your feedback! ではでは、引き続き一緒に頑張りましょう～！

🇺🇸 English Version: Show Hello Everyone! After months of hard work and excitement, we’re finally able to share something special with you — Bunpro is now available in Indonesian! landing_page1920×970 59.4 KB indonesian_meme_EN1356×1348 171 KB You can now experience learning Japanese entirely in a language that feels closest to home — Bahasa Indonesia. Simply head to your Account Settings and switch your display language: display_language2028×922 89.6 KB The Story Behind the Indonesian Version I’ve been learning Japanese for several years, and almost all of my resources were in English. When I first started looking for study material, I realized how few Japanese-learning resources existed in Indonesian — especially ones that could guide learners from zero to advanced. I was fortunate enough to be comfortable using English, so I could access many learning resources out there. But I also know that not everyone has the same advantage. Many learners end up being held back simply because there aren’t enough resources in their native language. During my learning journey, my biggest mistake was focusing too much on vocabulary and kanji. Eventually, I realized that without grammar, it’s difficult to understand the meaning of a sentence. The problem is, learning grammar by yourself can feel complicated and directionless. There were many times when I wished there was an SRS-style system for grammar as well… something that could guide and remind us consistently. That’s when I found Bunpro. I was immediately drawn to its simple yet powerful concept: complete explanations, practice, and spaced review (SRS), all in one place. It covers both grammar and vocabulary from the beginner level (N5) up to advanced (N1), which makes the learning path feel much clearer. Back then, everything was still in English, and I often imagined how helpful it would be if an Indonesian version of Bunpro existed. So when I heard that Bunpro would be expanded into Indonesian, I immediately felt it was a chance to help many others. I know what it’s like to study alone without resources in your own language, and that’s what inspired me to contribute — to help create a version that’s accessible, natural, and comfortable for Indonesian learners. Our goal is simple: To make the journey of learning Japanese feel simpler, more familiar, and more enjoyable for everyone in Indonesia. Still Growing All menus, features, and UI text have now been fully localized into Indonesian, along with the entire N5 curriculum. We’ll continue preparing the next levels (N4, N3, and beyond). It takes time and attention, but we want every sentence to feel natural and easy to understand. This Indonesian version will keep improving over time. If you spot any mistakes, awkward translations, or have suggestions, we’d love to hear from you at halo@bunpro.jp. Bunpro has always grown together with its community, and your feedback means a lot to help make this version even better. Thanks and Hopes Thank you to the entire Bunpro team for helping bring this version to life, and to every Indonesian learner who’s been studying day after day — this one’s for you. I hope this Indonesian version helps you learn more comfortably and confidently, bit by bit, one sentence, one small step at a time. Keep going, and may your journey toward fluency be a joyful one! Spread the Word! Help us share the news with your friends who are also learning Japanese! You can access the Indonesian version at bunpro.jp/id. Learn simpler. Learn closer. In your own language. Halo Semuanya! Akhirnya, hari ini kami bisa berbagi sesuatu yang sudah lama kami kerjakan dengan penuh semangat. Bunpro kini hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! landing_page1920×970 59.4 KB indonesian_meme_ID1374×1374 177 KB Sekarang kamu bisa belajar bahasa Jepang sepenuhnya dalam bahasa yang paling dekat di hati: Bahasa Indonesia. Cukup buka Pengaturan Akun dan ubah bahasa tampilanmu: display_language2028×922 89.6 KB Cerita di Balik Versi Indonesia Saya sudah belajar bahasa Jepang selama beberapa tahun, dan hampir semuanya lewat sumber berbahasa Inggris. Kenapa bahasa Inggris? Karena saya sadar betapa sedikitnya sumber belajar dalam Bahasa Indonesia, apalagi yang bisa membimbing dari nol sampai mahir. Saya cukup beruntung karena bisa berbahasa Inggris, namun saya tahu tidak semua orang punya kesempatan yang sama. Banyak pelajar akhirnya terhambat hanya karena sulit mencari materi untuk belajar bahasa Jepang dalam bahasa Indonesia. Saat belajar bahasa Jepang, kesalahan terbesar saya adalah terlalu fokus pada kosakata dan kanji. Baru kemudian saya sadar bahwa tanpa tata bahasa, makna dan nuansa kalimat sulit dipahami. Masalahnya, belajar tata bahasa secara mandiri sering terasa rumit dan tidak terarah. Saya pun jadi sering berpikir, betapa bermanfaatnya jika ada sistem seperti SRS untuk tata bahasa… yang bisa mengingatkan dan memandu kita secara konsisten. Di situlah saya menemukan Bunpro. Saya langsung tertarik dengan konsepnya yang sederhana tetapi kuat: materi lengkap, latihan, dan pengulangan lewat SRS, semuanya dalam satu tempat. Materinya mencakup tata bahasa dan kosakata dari tingkat pemula (N5) hingga lanjutan (N1), sehingga perjalanan belajar terasa jauh lebih jelas. Waktu itu semuanya masih dalam bahasa Inggris, dan saya sering membayangkan betapa bermanfaatnya jika ada Bunpro versi Bahasa Indonesia. Karena itu, saat mendengar kabar bahwa Bunpro akan dikembangkan ke Bahasa Indonesia, saya langsung merasa ini adalah kesempatan untuk membantu lebih banyak orang. Saya tahu rasanya belajar sendiri tanpa banyak sumber dalam bahasa kita, dan hal itulah yang membuat saya ingin berkontribusi — untuk membantu menghadirkan versi yang lebih mudah diakses, terasa alami, dan nyaman diikuti oleh pelajar Bahasa Indonesia. Tujuan kami sederhana: Membuat perjalanan belajar Bahasa Jepang terasa lebih simpel, lebih akrab, dan lebih menyenangkan untuk semua orang di Indonesia. Masih Terus Berkembang Seluruh menu, fitur, dan teks antarmuka kini telah sepenuhnya dilokalkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia, bersama dengan seluruh konten N5. Kami juga akan terus menyiapkan level-level berikutnya (N4, N3, dan seterusnya). Butuh waktu dan ketelitian, tetapi kami ingin setiap kalimat terasa alami dan mudah dipahami. Versi Indonesia ini akan terus kami sempurnakan dari waktu ke waktu. Kalau kamu menemukan kesalahan, terjemahan yang terasa janggal, atau punya saran apa pun, kami akan sangat senang mendengarnya melalui halo@bunpro.jp. Bunpro selalu tumbuh bersama komunitasnya, dan masukanmu sangat berarti untuk membuat versi Indonesia ini menjadi lebih baik lagi. Terima Kasih dan Harapan Terima kasih kepada seluruh tim Bunpro yang sudah membantu menghadirkan versi ini, dan kepada semua pelajar dari Indonesia yang sudah setia belajar setiap hari, ini untuk kalian. Saya berharap versi Bahasa Indonesia ini bisa menemani kamu belajar dengan lebih nyaman dan percaya diri, sedikit demi sedikit, satu kalimat demi satu kemajuan kecil. Selamat belajar, dan semoga perjalananmu menuju kefasihan semakin menyenangkan! Bagikan Kabar Ini! Bantu kami menyebarkan kabar gembira ini ke teman-temanmu yang juga belajar Bahasa Jepang! Kamu bisa mengakses versi Indonesia di bunpro.jp/id. Belajar lebih simpel. Lebih dekat. Dalam bahasamu sendiri.

Trick or Treat! While your reviews may bring you tricks, we’re happy to announce we have some treats for you all! The B-Point Shop and cosmetic system is finally out of Beta! We released the B-Point Shop in a previous update, earlier this year. Check it out in the original announcement. Announcement TLDR; The update introduced an in-app currency, and a wide array of cosmetic items that can be bought with it. The currency is called B-Points, and are earned by doing study inside of Bunpro – Reviews, Cram, Reading Passages etc. With this release, we’ve added a new big batch of items – many Halloween themed – for you to purchase. We’ve also added two new cosmetic-types, which we’ll get to next! Progress Bar Backgrounds & End-Caps Say goodbye to the standard accented Progress bar, and instead mix-and-match different bars and caps to your hearts content! Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 15.56.012936×1124 131 KB We’ve designed a bunch of festive (and non-festive) Progress bars that work both by themselves, as well as go hand-in-hand with other Caps. Want to use a brick bar background by itself? Great! Bones bar with a skull cap? Cool! Octopus arm bar with a pumpkin cap? Strange, but who are we to judge? Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 15.57.522438×1138 118 KB We hope that it makes doing Reviews a bit more fun and engaging going forward! Other New Shop Additions While the progress bars and caps are fun, we also have some other stuff to showcase! We have added more Pins, Frames, Accents and Profile Themes to the Shop. Time for a little showcase. Just in time for the holidays is our new Halloween Accent. This will add a spooky feel to your day-to-day activities inside Bunpro! Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 16.17.291920×1172 154 KB We’ve also added a new set of Matsuri-themed items too, and a Terracotta Accent: Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 16.19.201920×1172 166 KB Have a rummage through the New Releases part of the Shop to see everything we’ve added. Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 16.12.421920×1227 125 KB Special Mention… We have added the French Flag as a pin! This may have been the most requested item, so here you all are! Screenshot 2025-10-20 at 16.20.07372×538 9.67 KB Anyway, that’s all folks! We hope you enjoy this little update, and are looking forward to seeing your spooky Profiles for the rest of October (and well into the future too!). Share your Profiles below (the Share button can be found in the bottom right of your Profile Card)! We’d love to see your creations. Happy holidays! The Bunpro Team

Hi all! I hope everyone is gearing up for a great weekend! Today we are proud to announce a new feature that we have been working on behind the scenes for quite some time now… JLPT Practice Tests!! While not everybody is aiming to take the JLPT, it is universally considered a measure of competency that is synonymous with Japanese language learning. We wanted to give people taking the test a quality practice resource while also letting those not taking it have something they would be able to accurately measure their ability by, and hopefully have a bit of fun while doing so! Let’s get straight into taking a look at the features. Overview 25 Full JLPT Practice Tests (5 for each level!). Accompanying illustrations. Professionally recorded audio. Special Badges. JLPT Level indicator for your forum profile. Breakdown Practice Test Index On the JLPT practice test index page, you will find five complete tests for each level, including a breakdown of the questions per section and the total test time. image1378×1198 101 KB This page will also show you your final score and most recent test date for each test. Details Clicking the Details button for any test will give you a further breakdown of the allotted time and let you start any given section of the exam. image649×747 30.4 KB Test Inside each test section, everything will be in Japanese, reflecting the format of the actual JLPT. image1455×1244 73.6 KB Let’s take a look at what this page is showing us . The main test question container on the left: Instructions - These will change based on the question type, and will inform you of exactly what is expected of you in each section. Test question - Depending on the question type, you may see an underline, a blank, a text block, an image or an audio file. Answers to choose from - You can simply click on what you think is the correct one, or use hotkeys 1-4 to choose. Navigation - Arrow buttons let you go back or forward. Useful hotkeys are the left/right arrows and enter. The Answer sheet on the right: There is a timer at the top that will count down your remaining time. Please note that this is a soft limit timer, and it is there to just give you an idea of whether you were over or under in time. We don’t penalize you for going over. Additionally, if you need to pause your test, simply close the test. When you open it again later, the timer will begin from where you left off. Test question answer sheet - You can see which question you are currently on, and if you skipped any. Clicking on any question number will navigate you directly to that question. Submit answers button - Will end the test and check your answers for you. Note: The JLPT has breaks between each section. We chose not to force you take a break at all (and no arbitrary minimum amount, like 2 minutes, either). If you are aiming for a more test like experience and sitting down to do a full test in one go, you should definitely consider taking a small break between sections. Test Makeup Although each level has a selection of different question types testing different broad language abilities, all tests are divided into the following: Vocab - A mix of both kanji and vocabulary in a variety of question types such as recognition, recall, usage, replacement, and several others. Grammar & Reading - Sentence composition and long-form questions designed to test one’s ability to be able to extract specific information from items such as passages and posters. Listening - Questions that test one’s ability to understand spoken Japanese and either choose appropriate replies, or identify key points within a conversation. Just like the official JLPT, all of our tests are accompanied by professionally recorded audio files and have artwork where appropriate. スクリーンショット 2025-09-20 1802211538×1603 146 KB Test Results image647×754 37 KB So as to not spoil any of the tests, we won’t include a screenshot, but after you submit your results, you can open the test section up and see: Your answers versus the correct answers. Quick links to relevant Bunpro vocabulary and grammar points associated with any question (very useful for brushing up on any missed questions). Extra information/reasons showing you why an incorrect answer doesn’t work, and in many cases a detailed breakdown indicating how you can find the right answer. On listening sections, the audio transcript is available. Badges If you pass at least one test, you will earn the associated badge! While the JLPT uses a private scoring system for weighing each question, the criteria for what we consider a passing score on our tests is: 70% or more total with at least 40% on each section. If you can achieve a passing mark on one of our tests, you will likely be able to pass the official JLPT. That being said, the actual test varies quite a lot in terms of difficulty year by year. Forum Indicator Passing a test will also give you a JLPT indicator on your community forum profile! We feel this will be a much more accurate representation of one’s ability than just the standard 1-100 level that has been displayed up until this point. (This feature is coming very soon!) Accuracy We have based our practice tests off of the most up to date information publicly provided by the official JLPT website. We have also matched them as closely as possible in terms of difficulty, question total, and duration. However, if (and probably when) the JLPT changes slightly, we will do our best to make small alterations to our tests in order to keep up to date. One key difference between an official JLPT test and our practice tests is that during the listening section, we allow you to replay audio files as many times as you like. During the actual JLPT, they only play it once. For those wanting the real experience, we recommend proceeding through the test question by question and only listening to each question once in order to get the most accurate representation of your overall ability. (If you want a really authentic listening test experience, just hook up an external speaker, turn the volume down and put it in the far corner of your room. Even better if you’re sitting near someone tapping a pencil ) We believe this first batch of five tests generally vary from slightly on the easy side, to level accurate. In the future when we release another batch, we will aim to make them slightly on the harder side and put an indicator on each test showing their relative difficulty so that users can get a better gauge of their ability. Availability All 25 tests are 100% freely available! We have made these practice tests accessible to anyone, regardless of whether or not they are a paid user, trial user, or even if they have no Bunpro account at all! When initially doing research for this project, we found that there was a lack of stellar, accurate JLPT practice tests publicly available, especially ones with quality audio (probably one of the tougher parts of the JLPT). We want as many people as possible to be able to use these exams whenever and wherever they want, regardless of whether or not they call Bunpro home. Being able to equip people with the tools they need in order to reach their learning goals is at the core of our mission, and this is just one more feature that is allowing us to do just that. We would love it if you shared these tests with your friends, family, or internet strangers looking to practice for the JLPT, or get a better sense of their current level! If you have any feedback, suggestions for improvements, or anything else, please don’t hesitate to let us know! As always, thank you for being a huge part of what motivates us to do what we do, and we hope that all the love that was poured into this project by everyone on the team shines through!

Hello again folks! We’ve got a few mini-updates that give you more fine-grain control on the Quiz and your Reviews! Apart from the two new Review Types, these come in the form of a bunch more “Advanced” settings at the bottom of the Review Settings page. Master+ Mode For all our lovely masochistic users, we have added Master+ Mode. ‘Master plus’ – as we’re calling it – is essentially a way to never be done with a Grammar/Vocab in Bunpro. Setting an item to Master+ makes it so that even after an item reaches Master status (SRS 12), it will continue to show up in your Review Queue at your Master interval (6 months by default). Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 12.53.201552×710 81.3 KB Items that are of Master+ status will be visually marked like the following: Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 12.55.21880×778 22.9 KB This is turned Off by default, so you’ll need to go into your settings and turn it on. You’ll also need to Update All Existing items to be Master+. NOTE: this can result in a lot of items becoming due at once, so use with caution. New Review Types We have added the Translate + Reveal & Grade type for Grammar, as well as The long awaited Listening Review Type! It acts much like the Listening mode does in Cram, but this time, it’s available for your bread-and-butter SRS Reviews too! Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 13.00.072052×1122 96.4 KB Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 13.00.182050×1126 110 KB You can set your Reviews to Listening in all of the usual places: On the individual Grammar/Vocab pages themselves In the Deck Settings In the global Review Settings Screenshots of said locations^ On the individual Grammar/Vocab pages themselves 3-indiv858×1160 49.4 KB 3-indiv-21364×1430 87.7 KB In the Deck Settings 2-deck-settings-12346×1032 471 KB 2-deck-settings-21858×712 95 KB In the global Review Settings 1-global2548×1194 250 KB Example Sentences alongside Translation Questions This one some of you may have seen already, as it’s enabled by default! For questions with a Translate Review Type (JA → EN), an example sentence is now shown alongside the answer on reveal! Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 13.16.142294×1126 82.2 KB Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 13.16.192292×1146 145 KB This can be disabled in the Advanced Review Settings, under the title “Display Sentence alongside Translation Questions”. ‘Undo’ Customization Also in this Advanced section, we’ve added a place where you can customize how the “Undo” action works during the Quiz. Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 14.14.131456×216 12.2 KB As the screenshot suggests, you now have two options for the Undo action: Clear Last Character (new option) Clear All Characters (old default) We had a lot of requests for this, so we hope this new option serves you well! Example screenshots during a Quiz Mistake before Undo-ing: before2016×1060 105 KB After Undo-ing (Clear Last Character) after-one2016×1060 88.6 KB After Undo-ing (Clear All Characters) after-all2016×1060 85.6 KB Minimum Ghost SRS stage Another super fine grain control thing, for those that are sick of Ghost-overload for items they’ve just learned. The title + description says it all: Minimum SRS For Ghosts: Choose the minimum SRS level Grammar/Vocab needs to be before Ghost Reviews are created. This one is also accessed in the Advance section in Reviews Settings. If you set this setting to “Seasoned 2” for example, any Grammar/Vocab below Seasoned 2 (e.g. Seasoned 1, Adept 3 etc.) won’t produce Ghosts. Anything above it (Seasoned 3 and up) will produce Ghosts. NOTE: That the base Ghost settings still apply (Grammar Ghost Reviews / Vocab Ghost Reviews). E.g. if you have Minimum SRS For Ghosts set to Seasoned 2, and Grammar Ghost Reviews set to Off, then even if you get a Grammar question wong at Seasoned 3, a Ghost won’t be produced. SRS Strictness (Grammar/Vocab split) A few users asked for this, so we’ve split the SRS Strictness setting into two – one for Grammar and one for Vocab. Screenshot 2025-08-23 at 14.38.061390×414 23.6 KB That’s all folks! A bunch of pretty minor things in the grand scheme of things, but one that pushes us closer to our goal of letting you have more fine-grain control over your Japanese learning. Another update like this that allows even bigger choices is on its way! Stay tuned! As always, if you have any questions, find any issues with these additions, or have literally anything else, drop a comment below! We check the forums (perhaps too) regularly. With love from The Bunpro Team

Hello again! We hope you’re staying hydrated and drinking your Pocari Sweat during this sweltering summer (or staying warm drinking your corn soup for our friends below the equator). We’ve officially released Community Decks out of the Beta! Here’s a recap of the initial summary for our new users and those who weren’t there for the initial Beta post: The Recap Community Decks allow you to: Create your own Decks Clone existing ones to edit as you please Share your Decks (privately and publicly) Access other users’ publicly shared Decks Broad Deck Changes We made some sweeping changes to the Explore Decks and individual Deck pages. The browse decks page now has four tabs. My Decks: Your Learn Queue Decks, Custom Decks, and Bookmarked Decks Bunpro: This page contains the Bunpro Grammar, Vocab and Misc decks (Kansai-ben and Onomatopoeia) Textbooks: All of the various textbook paths such as Genki, Tae Kim and so on. Community: All public decks grouped by Deck Type (Grammar, Vocab, Anime, Novel and so on) Each deck tile on the browse page has a “User Count” attached so you can see which Decks are popular. We also added a Bunpro icon to tell which are “Official Bunpro Decks” at a quick glance. One downgrade was the removal of the Review button on each Deck tile. This was ultimately done because the query to calculate the number due takes a little bit of time. While not an issue when there are only a few Decks, pages with more took several seconds to load. Given the unexpected sadness about this change, we have brought the little guy out of retirement on just the My Decks page. That means all the decks shown here (learning, custom or bookmarked) will have the button available. image704×452 57 KB On the Individual Deck pages themselves, we adjusted the information in the header to include the Deck Type and user count. We also streamlined the available buttons, including a Review button along with the Learn button and made it more clear if the deck was in your Learn queue or not. image1386×132 78.1 KB The button group in the bottom contains the following buttons: Bookmark - Edit (if it is your deck) - Clone - Deck Settings Custom Decks image1388×383 17.5 KB Creating Under the My Decks page, you can click on the “Create a New Deck” button to open a form that lets you specify the title, description, type and also upload a cover image. image901×879 37.9 KB Once you create a Deck, it will take you to the Edit page. image1544×589 94.3 KB Building & Editing The first step when creating a new Deck is to add a Unit. You can add a title and label to make it more clear what the theme of the unit is. For a textbook Deck for example you might call it ‘Lesson 1’. For an anime deck, it might be Episode 1. Each Deck can have any number of Units. image1244×360 68.3 KB After you have at least one Unit, you can add cards to your Deck. These cards reference Grammar/Vocab within Bunpro and live under a specific Unit. You can add any number of cards to a Unit. image894×558 37 KB Within the Add Card search, you can also specify which Unit it should be added to. Lastly, you can drag and drop both Units and cards to sort the default order they appear in, within the Deck. image1325×837 50.3 KB To edit the title, description, type or cover image, use the small pencil icon next to the Deck title Cloning One additional way to build a Deck is to clone an existing one. A cloned Deck will be copy of an existing one but it will belong to you. You can edit it, adding, removing or rearranging it to get it just the way you want. Sharing Decks Once you have built your deck, you can optionally choose to share it. This will give you a link you can send directly to another user that will let them see the deck and even study from it. If you want to share your Deck more broadly, you can send your Deck for admin review. Once approved, it will appear under the Community tab for any user to access and study. TLDR: There is a new Community tab in Decks that allows you to see a whole bunch of community-created Decks! You can see your studied Decks, and create your own custom Decks in the new My Decks tab. Not much has changed apart from fixing and polishing a few things, that is, aside from the… Vocab Import Tool (NEW) Since the Beta was announced, the main addition to Community Decks is the new “Import Deck Vocab” tool. As the name implies, it allows you to import Vocab into your Deck in one fell swoop, as opposed to adding them one-by-one through the Edit screen. You can access it via the Edit screen: 12010×1115 167 KB 22028×685 34.5 KB Clicking on “Import new Units” will take you to the input pop-out. Add some content in the empty box here! 31306×1186 62 KB A bit of formatting is required: Each line represents a word Each line starting with a # represents the title of a new Unit Each line starting with a ## represents the title of a new Unit For more info on formatting rules, open the “How does this tool work?” dropdown at the top of this form. Notice that you can select between importing from either Japanese Text or JMDict Word IDs. What's a JMDict Word ID? It’s something you probably don’t have to worry about. Our tool allows you to input IDs from the JMDict Dictionary Project, which is used by most free online dictionaries out there. Using these basically makes importing more accurate if you have a list of them from another source that you want to import. Here are two example screenshots of what a screenshot might look like: Japanese Text: 41305×1185 70.2 KB JMDict Word ID: 51305×1187 72.3 KB After you’ve added your text, hit “Import List” and Bunpro will start searching for your Vocab. 62028×841 59.9 KB Once the search is done, you’ll end up with a state like the above. Here you can manually review the Vocabs that Bunpro has found and used to create your import. Bunpro will warn you if it couldn’t find a word in your list, or if it found multiple of the same. It then allows you to remove, replace, or accept the ones that aren’t quite right. When you’re ready, you can hit the big Save button and voila! Import complete! 71994×834 45.6 KB We’re hoping that this Import tool will help you create Decks fast. Importing from other sources Some of you might be coming from other study sources like Anki, and may be wanting to study your Vocab with our Fill-in-the-Blank sentences. Read our Support article about importing from Anki here. That about covers it! Building and sharing a Deck is a great way to help other users also learning from the same media – if you make an awesome Deck that someone might benefit from, don’t be too shy to share it! We’ll never be done improving Bunpro, so as always, we welcome and encourage any and all discussion / feedback. We are looking forward to seeing what our users that are fresh to Community Decks can come up with! The Bunpro Team ❤️‍🔥 Acknowledgements 🫶 Sorry if I missed anyone (highly likely): @Flutter created a Vocab extraction tool that allows (with a bit of developer knowledge) for Vocab extraction from PDF, subtitle, E-Pubs and even image files! I believe there are a few Decks out there already made with this tool. @bunnypro and @sythe for already creating a bunch of great Decks @padscaesura0o For creating the great Wanikani companion Deck, Warakani @HannahEU @IcyIceBear @chicharron @eefara @Magyarapointe @haldo @FlippFuzz and probably many others for all the bug reports and help during the polishing phase! Literally anyone that created/published a Deck during the Beta!

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well and those who took the JLPT aren’t too nervous about their results! After a period of working on other things, we’re happy to announce that we’re refocusing on our push to add missing grammar points to Bunpro! This post is here to announce what we’re adding, explain how we will approach missing grammar from now on, and also to remind newer users of what we are planning to add (and how you can best make suggestions). What’s New This Time? We’re starting off by adding 11 new grammar points across different levels: ます (N5) く・に (N4) ガン (N1) むず (Non-JLPT) 何やら (N2) どうにか (N1) なりとも (N1) 次第に (N2) 訳あり (N1) ～て頂戴 (N2) に値する (N2) Of course, all new grammar points come not just with a writeup but also come with a full set of example sentences. Be sure to check them out! Please note though that we do not have audio for these new grammar points yet, but the audio will be coming very soon! Besides new grammar points, in some cases, frequently requested additional information is better served by being added to our existing grammar points. For example, this time we are also updating the writeup for たりする with some extra information on the たりして pattern. What Comes Next? From now on, we are planning on releasing around five new grammar points per month! We will be filling some gaps in JLPT grammar and, in an effort to be more comprehensive as a general learning and reference tool, we will also be adding more grammar that is considered to be outside of the JLPT. You can currently find these points at the bottom of the Grammar List from the Content menu, or can search for them directly. ‘I Have a Suggestion!’ In the original announcement about the future of missing grammar, we shared a priority list. We will continue to focus on that list for the moment, although suggestions are always welcome. The original announcement thread is still the best place for suggestions however we will try our best to keep track of suggestions wherever you may make them. We may or may not have a secret list behind the scenes 文アマから文プロへ On the content team we are busy working away on various other projects, as well as continually trying to improve the content we already have. Although we can’t quite talk about any of the other projects yet, we hope everyone will enjoy the new grammar writeups, and we thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback so far! We’ll see you for the next batch of new grammar next month!