So, I have been rehearsing the kanjis I learned in Wanikani everyday by writing a page daily. I have a list of the kanji meanings (in order of Wanikani) and then I look at the meaning and write down the kanji and think of it’s on’yomi and kun’yomi readings. If I don’t remember some readings that I have already learned on Wanikani or if I can’t remember how to write it, I will mark it. And the next day, I will first go through all the ones that I marked and unmark them if I remembered them. I started this when I was lvl 5 (hitting lvl 9 tomorrow) and now the first 5 levels are very easy and I always remember them, so I will only write them down 7 times instead of 28.
So, my question is do you think that this is a sustainable routine that will help with my studies or is it unnecessary and just hinders my Wanikani learning? I read from somewhere that extra studying can be bad when learning with SRS.
My personal understanding is that it’s only “bad” in the sense that the SRS is supposed to be optimal in terms of the effect you get in relation to the effort you put in. So any additional studying has diminished returns on investment and could perhaps be better spent on other aspects of Japanese than kanji recognition (which is what wanikani teaches). But you’re also practicing your handwriting which is a different skill so I wouldn’t say you are wasting your time.
This is erroneous information. Here is a summary of the scientific study on the topic by @MegaZeroX Bottom line: the more you see an item the better your retention. You just need to be careful not to do it just before the review.
Thank you, that clears it up for me 
Yeah, probably should spend more time studying grammar 
Out of curiosity, where are you getting the strokes order from? Jisho.org?
I find your method very interesting and I’m considering trying it myself
I’d say that if its a big goal of yours to be able to handwrite kanji then you arent wasting your time, however one thing I will say is that it’s pretty monotonous writing out kanji several times so you may begin to have issues in regards to your motivation. Also, if I were you I’d be dedicating more time to textbook learning through resources like genki, as its equally important as learning kanji and while doing genki ibwould have to write out kanji anyway to answer the texbook questions meaning that It would naturally consolidate your kanji knowledge
I actually just had a post about this. Now I mostly use the user script for Wanikani, so I don’t need to go to any additional websites.
The user script: [Userscript] Stroke Order Diagram
The point of WK and SRS, is to minimize the amount of time you spend on learning any one item. Thus allowing you to spend the time you freed up, which you would otherwise spend poring over the same lists everyday, on other aspects of learning. What you are doing is practicing recall and writing, using a method you devised. It seems to be working well for you, except that you might still be repeating the same items every day, even if you know them well (regardless of reduced repetitions, that’s still a lot of time you’re putting in them). These extra reviews are only going to increase, so might I suggest a way to streamline this a bit more?
There is the app KameSame, which does what you’re doing. Test you on kanji, EN-JP style (and a lot more). You can connect it to your WK level, so you can practice the same kanji in the same order as you learn them on here. You can still keep writing them in your notebook, but just like on WK, the items you get right you won’t have to practice again the next day. It think it might help you free up some more time for grammar studies, reading, writing diary entries, or what have you.
Very nice, I will give it a try
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