Any plans to support user added kanji/vocab?

[seanblue]

Really I’m looking for a place to study material I find “in the wild”, such as reading news, reading manga, or watching anime. Right now, most of those words just get forgotten.

I like Houhou, but it has the significant downside of not being available on my phone. And like I said, I just don’t like Anki. I suppose I could use iknow for this (I’m already subscribed), but I think WaniKani’s system is better.

[jprspereira]

I guess this answers some questions about extra level/vocab.

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One thing I was wondering as an alternative was whether there would be the possibility of opening up Wanikani at level 60 to allow users to create their own levels based on unknown Kanji/vocab they encounter? It’s the only SRS system I’ve actually enjoyed and I think the timings are ideal, so it would be nice to continue using it in that way!

Is it planned to make lvl 61-70?

Something like that is on the docket, but I don’t think it’d have anything to do with level, necessarily. And also, not something that will be happening, or even started anytime soon. But yeah, giving people a little more option to add some of their own content, with a little restriction to prevent folks from going overboard on themselves, is something I want to do at some point. I don’t think it’ll be ready for you though

Is it planned to make lvl 61-70?

@koichi I’m also quite curious on what content is due to be added

Is it planned to make lvl 61-70?

in terms of actually planned stuff, mostly just new words we think would be good, and names.

[polv]

Extra vocabs aren’t hard to be remembered in my opinion. Once you know both Kun and On readings, it is easy. But for new Kanji, I have to follow WaniKani method.

WaniKani missed about 200 Joyo Kanji, and that probably wouldn’t properly split into existing 60 levels… Better add more levels to fit this.

But I know WaniKani won’t.

[Leebo]

A lot of the kanji that are joyo-but-not-on-WK are very rare, represent words usually written with kana, or are alternative versions of words commonly written with other kanji.

I don’t know that the mere fact that the government of Japan puts them into a specific list makes them worthy of expanding the levels.

[polv]

About some Joyo Kanji, what I do in my extra levels, is checking with Aozora Bunko…

Yeah, many are replaced by another Kanji. Some are less used. 璽…

[VegasVed]

I do wonder though what their rationale is wrt putting those rare items on the list. Does it not seem a bit… unnecessary?

[Leebo]

Well, I guess, for a Japanese adult, they probably get a bit more utility out of that knowledge than the typical learner will. They learn well beyond the ones on that list, the list just represents what the government mandates.

But I think it’d be silly for WK to add something like 蚕, which is a grade 6 kanji for Japanese students, because when are we going to talk about silkworms as learners? When I was studying for Kanken, which was focused on grade 6 kanji, my girlfriend couldn’t remember how to write that one. Because seriously, who cares about silkworms.