I got overwhelmed this week and stopped doing lessens to cut down on the reviews I had to do. I was finding that I was getting way too many wrong cos I was trying to learn so many new words. I made it to level 5 today (yay!) and now i have 110 lessons because of the backlog I created! At least I …

The early levels do have a lot of kanji and vocabs because these were designed to give you a good foundation in kanji knowledge, introduce you to some of the most common kanji (of which there are quite a lot). This is why every time you level up, you get a lot of lessons. Once you reach level 27-is…

Level 27…i can only dream of that day! :blush:

Plasmagirl: Does anyone else feel like it’s totally overwhelming sometimes? Yes. My lesson pile has not been 0 since around level 6. Each time I level up and get that big lesson dump it goes back up to 100+. There are ways to fight that number (hopefully other people will share their methods…

You’re learning the kanji component of Japanese. The single most overwhelming aspect of Japanese that even native speakers struggle with in their day to day lives. It’s perfectly normal to be overwhelmed. Don’t forget to revel in the fact that seemingly random squiggly lines are now the carriers of…

Thanks Plantron…thats an interesting link!

Oh you are so right about those squiggly lines! And I love the humour that the mnenomics put into the stories when they combine them to solidify them in your memory! :smile:

You’re doing absolutely the right thing to hold off on the lessons for a while and just get to grips with the kanji you’ve already learnt. Don’t see the lesson count as a backlog, see it as a mark of your success - they’re only available because you’ve managed to guru the last lot of kanji/radicals …

I get you. It’s overwhelming whenever I see 100ish lessons that I have to get through. I personally just hit the home button and cut my lessons short. I perfer to do large lessons in 20 lesson chunks.

absolutely. i were where you are atm and i had at lv 5 a review lists of almost 500 kanji/vocab/radical and 60 new lessons (thats probably not much in comparison to lv 60 members) and couldn’t handle anything at all. did too many mistakes and made my score look miserable. couldn’t concentrate on act…

Thank you fustian_garb. That is a great way of looking at it! And yes i do get a kick out of recognising kanji too.

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greasyButter May 9, 2019, 1:25pm 14

jprspereira made an awesome guide about making your own schedule. Try going through this!

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