I am on level 11, and I have almost all of the kanji of N4, almost all vocab of N5. However, I am seriously lagging behind in listening and speaking, and grammar. Should I take a step back and study grammar then go back to wanikani. I have lifetime plan btw.
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Personally, I found it best to study grammar in parallel with WaniKani. But I think the best way would be to try different ways and see which would work for you. Maybe, it would be best for you to just put WK on vacation mode and concentrate entirely on grammar for now. Or maybe it would be best to do both in parallel, like I did.
In any case, best of luck with your studies! 
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+1 to study grammar in parallel - you can just slow down WK, no need to pause it for now.
Maybe a suggestion would be to listen to a beginner podcast, such as Japanese with Shun, which tackles both grammar and listening at once!
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Put a timer for how long you want to do WK each day and go study grammar/listening in parallel. Don’t forget to try to read books and other fun things to help glue it all together.
I agree with the others that it’s about time to put some serious effort on the grammar side. As for listening and speaking, it depends. If your short term objectives are mainly to be able to read Japanese, you can postpone that basically indefinitely. I’ll start working on that listening practice any day now, I swear…
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Put serious effort on cracking listening and speaking and grammar, as you have noticed.
Personally, I think that WaniKani can be vacation’d / reset, whatever you want, if it’s too much. There is no need to jump back to WaniKani at all, until you need it. But my experience of good levels of WaniKani was 21-30, where many people here suffered…
I think listening is closer to reading Grader Readers Level 0-1, rather than hard-rock deciphering reading or grammar points. There are feels.
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