7 kinds of WaniKani users (to be continued)

The Doesn’t-Know-What-She’s-Doing

Discovered scripts around level 30, got the reorder script, and started doing everything that was possible to do wrong wrong. Accumulates over 1000 vocab lessons and nearly 4000 reviews but puts off fixing it until … later.

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Lol. I am the silent one

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you missed the ghosts old timers

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I’ve posted a couple times but I’m mostly a silent one. I shall, however, reveal my secrets. One hour Breath of the Wild music playlists while studying increase my powers by at least 40%. It’s the gods that keep me going though.

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damn, called out

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You forgot the gremlins!

Essentially, gremlins are Japanese learners whose current learning resource is pretty much only WaniKani, resulting in people who probably know how to pronounce that sentence and who probably know what quite a few of the words mean by themselves, but what the sentence means as a whole… not so much.

I’m not sure I’m really a full-blown gremlin myself since I did get through from Genki 1 to part way through Genki 2. So, I know some grammar, it’s just that I’m not really building on it at the the moment, eheh, which I guess does make me one. (´‿`)ゞ There’s still a bunch of some basic things that I need to sit down and sort out. Like conditional sentences, transitive/intransitive/causative etc. verbs, comparative sentences… Will have to happen when I have more time though.

@TheFlaminMunch called dibs on being the first official one, though!

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can you url please ?

I’m sorry but IS YOUR AVATAR THE RÜGENWALDER MÜHLE COMMERCIAL GUY I’m losing my mind :sob::joy:

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Lol how on earth did you recognize that… But you are right :laughing:

Script abuser checking in. I don’t know how anyone can live without their kanji doing a little firework dance but I for sure don’t want to!

Edit, damn it, going a bit off topic here but it had to happen.

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I’m the Silent One as this is my first post even though I’m almost done level six.

Though I do complain when I think a kanji’s definition list isn’t long enough.

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bro you can just call the category “The Leebo” if you want, we’d all get it lmao

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I am not there yet, but very close! :sweat_smile::stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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So I’m just a forum toddler then.

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Spending too much time on the internet and watching Youtube poops :joy:

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8. The Introducer:
Indeed, many of us have taken on this role at some point or other, but most of us grow out of it. However, some brave souls take up the mantle and continue to show the ropes to new members of the forums, responding to their introductory posts, linking various FAQ’s, guides, SRS information, and more recently level 60 posts/threads. The Introducers have a notepad document saved on their desktop, containing a template post which they can tailor to the user in question with a lightning fast speed rivalling Thor himself. May include gifs, references to the crabigator cult. If you spend enough time on the forums, you may spot that magical moment when an Introducer comes online, and suddenly every introduction post in Campfire is headed by the avatar of that same user.

9. The Student:
Usually in university or college, though sometimes even in high school, this user is crazy enough to learn Japanese outside of any formal program in addition to their main field of study. Usually slow and consistent, but can have large break periods which oddly coincide with exam periods and deadlines. Has notably faster progress out of term. Will probably moan quite a lot about their student life on the forums.

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I guess I’d also also be The Vacationer. I was so happy to get into “Hell”… in April 2014. Now I finally made it back to Hell in July 2019. Several resets and 2000+ review cues (and myself) to blame.

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I’m guessing these two would be the closest matches for me(or at least that’s how I perceive it, no idea what anyone else thinks). They’re surprisingly accurate too!

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I would just like to say that I resemble your remark.

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This is me except my “vacations” have stretched as long as a year on two occasions. That’s usually due to technical difficulties and then inertia before I start back. However, I do remember the beginning levels. It’s the levels that I stop at before the vacation that I forget.

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