I was doing duolingo and watching YouTube videos for like a year and a half prior to starting BunPro and Wanikani in December last year, so it’s not a very long time, but I have gone from picking up a word or to to being able to mostly understand basic spoken and written Japanese since then. I do both of them every day, and I also use bunpro for vocabulary which isn’t what a lot of people recommend, but I really like their grammar.
I got through N5 and most of the way through N4 grammar in that time, by the metrics of their Genki decks I’m through Genki 1 and 2 minus a handful of items, and that took about 6 months, so yeah I’d say it’s been a good investment.
Just use Anki. There’s a Japanese conjugation deck on AnkiWeb. I used it for a while and it helped a bit. Although honestly I think you mostly get better with conjugations by just hearing/reading them a lot. It starts to feel unnatural using the wrong conjugation.
I use Bunpro and I improved so much in the span of only one month. I tried the free trial for one month and I was sold. Coupled with a ton of reading, manga and NHK news easy, it helped me to consolidate all of the points I learned through Bunpro. When I dont understand something I just search through their grammar points and it always helps me. They also have vocabulary decks, a pretty active community and many other functionnalities. I find it pretty fun actually
I love Bunpro! BUT I use it with “reading mode” only, not with input, because it can get frustrating very quickly with all the synonyms.
Bunpro is only great if you know some very basic grammar prior to using it, as it doesn’t go in depth with how each element of a sentence interact with each other. For that i’d recommend CureDolly’s playlist for the first 20 or so lessons. It’ll help you get a grasp on the structure of the phrase (as well as conjugations).
But apart from the very beginner stages, it’s my favorite resource for grammar.
Definitely give it a try, it’s good for most people I’d say but I had a problem just memorizing the practice sentences instead of the actual grammar points unfortunately
I really like it, before I had no idea with grammar at all. Now just using it for grammar I feel 10x more confident with reading and understanding.
read tae kim or read more novels with sentence mining
I tried it for a bit and still have a $5 monthly subscription going but have paused it for now. I am getting more out of just going through Genki 1 textbook and workbook and doing the exercises in there. I may just use Bunpro as a review after I finish Genki though since you can sync it to the Genki textbook order. I will get through Genki 2 after that and then probably Quartet textbook.
I tried bun pro but kinda struggled with the explanations. Found marumori and instantly loved it and improved so much
I’m currently using bunpro to learn grammar. I had very minimal basic knowledge of grammar before bunpro. It doesn’t go super in depth but for me it’s just the perfect amount of explanation where I don’t get a headache, the reviews are also a lot more fun than anki so that’s always a plus. It has helped me a lot, I had a long break from it and then I started using it again around the same time I started watching jojo part 4 again. I instantly started understanding a whole lot more of what they were saying without looking at the subtitles, grammar points like 「なくてはいけない」 that I previously didn’t know, I suddenly knew and understood how they worked and it has helped a lot
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I was doing duolingo and watching YouTube videos for like a year and a half prior to starting BunPro and Wanikani in December last year, so it’s not a very long time, but I have gone from picking up a word or to to being able to mostly understand basic spoken and written Japanese since then. I do both of them every day, and I also use bunpro for vocabulary which isn’t what a lot of people recommend, but I really like their grammar.
I got through N5 and most of the way through N4 grammar in that time, by the metrics of their Genki decks I’m through Genki 1 and 2 minus a handful of items, and that took about 6 months, so yeah I’d say it’s been a good investment.
Just use Anki. There’s a Japanese conjugation deck on AnkiWeb. I used it for a while and it helped a bit. Although honestly I think you mostly get better with conjugations by just hearing/reading them a lot. It starts to feel unnatural using the wrong conjugation.
I use Bunpro and I improved so much in the span of only one month. I tried the free trial for one month and I was sold. Coupled with a ton of reading, manga and NHK news easy, it helped me to consolidate all of the points I learned through Bunpro. When I dont understand something I just search through their grammar points and it always helps me. They also have vocabulary decks, a pretty active community and many other functionnalities. I find it pretty fun actually
I love Bunpro! BUT I use it with “reading mode” only, not with input, because it can get frustrating very quickly with all the synonyms.
Bunpro is only great if you know some very basic grammar prior to using it, as it doesn’t go in depth with how each element of a sentence interact with each other. For that i’d recommend CureDolly’s playlist for the first 20 or so lessons. It’ll help you get a grasp on the structure of the phrase (as well as conjugations).
But apart from the very beginner stages, it’s my favorite resource for grammar.
Definitely give it a try, it’s good for most people I’d say but I had a problem just memorizing the practice sentences instead of the actual grammar points unfortunately
I really like it, before I had no idea with grammar at all. Now just using it for grammar I feel 10x more confident with reading and understanding.
read tae kim or read more novels with sentence mining
I tried it for a bit and still have a $5 monthly subscription going but have paused it for now. I am getting more out of just going through Genki 1 textbook and workbook and doing the exercises in there. I may just use Bunpro as a review after I finish Genki though since you can sync it to the Genki textbook order. I will get through Genki 2 after that and then probably Quartet textbook.
I really enjoyed [Human Japanese](https://www.humanjapanese.com/). They explain grammar really well, by showing where similar things occur in English. The same author also wrote [Nutshell Grammar on Satori Reader](https://www.satorireader.com/series/nutshell-grammar) which should help you with advanced conjugation.
I tried bun pro but kinda struggled with the explanations. Found marumori and instantly loved it and improved so much
I’m currently using bunpro to learn grammar. I had very minimal basic knowledge of grammar before bunpro. It doesn’t go super in depth but for me it’s just the perfect amount of explanation where I don’t get a headache, the reviews are also a lot more fun than anki so that’s always a plus. It has helped me a lot, I had a long break from it and then I started using it again around the same time I started watching jojo part 4 again. I instantly started understanding a whole lot more of what they were saying without looking at the subtitles, grammar points like 「なくてはいけない」 that I previously didn’t know, I suddenly knew and understood how they worked and it has helped a lot