Hi everyone at WaniKani! I hope this isn’t too much of a duplicate of the many other posts that probably cover a similar subject - in summary, I feel I’m being overly cautious with the number of lessons I take, and not progressing very fast at all. Now, I don’t want you to think that I’m blaming W…

[image] OmukaiAndi: only one thing counts on wanikani: that you’re doing your reviews every day. flu, hangover, phone screen cracked, doesn’t matter. the SRS is relentless and laughs you in the face if you think you can “take a little break”. There’s Vacation Mode though. There’s no point in …

Not a race, do it at a pace that is comfortable to you. I also think speed varies between individual preferences anyway; too fast and you burn out, too slow and you lose interest. If you think your current pace is too slow, try adjusting it, but only you can know the sweet spot. IMO: I don’t aim …

vacation mode stops the SRS timer, but it doesn’t stop memory rot. your brain has no vacation mode. better to do all the reviews while feeling like shit and having a low accuracy, than no accuracy, and a hammer to the face when you come back. when you feel you’ll get sick, stop all lessons immediat…

I am 89% of the way to level 5 and for me since I am a beginner with Japanese in general as well as fall in that want to be a perfectionist category, I thought I would share my experience. I have no time frame in which I need to learn everything, I am doing it by my own choice, not necessity. I do …

Thanks for all the amazing replies! I’d like all of them if I still had any left for today. I’ll see what I can do to improve my schedule. This community is amazing :heart:

That’s awesome, it lines up almost perfectly with what I am doing! Now I feel a lot better about how I have been doing everything. Gotta get those readers to start working on that too, thanks!

Personally if I don’t have defined rules I tend to err towards the lazy side. Recently someone posted their (Rather quick) journey to 60 and it inspired me to set some stricter rules on myself. I put at least 20 lessons as a mandatory part of my morning schedule to get both of the first reviews in o…

I disagree. I was busy and out of it so I turned on vacation mode for a week. After I started reviews again, my accuracy stayed the same or slightly increased. Generally I’d also say to keep vacation mode to a minimum, but there are appropriate times to use it.

if you’re really sick, and i mean a real influenza, not just an annoying cold (and a stuffy nose and headache can do terrible things to your concentration), then do it. just be aware that most of your apprentice items will be gone after this. if i’d get sick for 2 weeks, i’d reset a level.

Am I taking too much time to learn?

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take a look at this, a small guide i wrote up a few days ago

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Am I taking too much time to learn?

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