Hmm okay, I can see that. I guess I’m just so used to doing larger amounts of lessons all at once since that’s what I’ve been doing since I started. It normally takes me about 90 minutes to learn 25 vocab words (maybe because I’m thoroughly going through everything). This is also the main reason I brought up the question in the first place since that’d translate to about 3 hours for 50 lessons for me. But It’d be interesting to give that method a try. I just don’t know how I’d feel about doing reviews (and lessons) every hour. For me, it’s kind of nice to just sit down and do all of them at once and then have a break from studying for a good amount of time.
Yeah not everyone can afford the commitment to do things “on the hour”, but for myself I think doing it constantly is part of what’s been keeping my retention high.
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I do all the vocab immediately as they arrive, right after I do the radical and kanji lessons. I do use a reorder script, but that is just so I get to the radicals and Kanji before the hour passes.
I create a fake review level at 2 hours in, that I use to make sure I don’t forget the Kanji and radicals during the first review. I don’t do this for the vocab though, and my success rate suffered for it (98.5% for Kanji vs 95% for radicals).
I usually spend no more than an hour or two on 5/7 days a week, but during the days with new lessons it is probably about 4 or 5 hours.
I think I’m just blessed with a good memory, as I maintain a 95% recall rate for vocab without any special work.
When I hit the fast levels, the vocab size is only around 75% of the early levels, so I just expect to do 1.5 times the work.
What’s your retention? I’d be curious to see how yours compares to mine, considering time put in to reviewing and learning. Mine is about 94-95% for both reading and meaning.
Interesting, so you’re basically sitting at 0 lessons right after you level up?
Yes. I never have a backlog of lessons unless I have something scheduled that I can’t miss.
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Wow, that’s pretty impressive. I’d definitely be interested in trying out your learning method if it means more efficient studying. How do you go about learning words then? Do you just do the typical study of the mnemonic and move on? Or do you do anything extra? Also, I’m assuming by your hour by hour technique you have a ton of free time. What do you do when you have something come up for that day? Cut down on lessons?
I find the vocab lessons pretty easy to go through, since the reading is normally the one WK teaches you first for the Kanji, and at least so far you can normally connect the meaning to the Kanji the word is composed of.
If something comes up sometimes I will skip an hour or so for reviews/lessons, but it’s pretty rare. Right now I’m working from home thanks to the current quarantine situation, so it’s pretty easy to find a few minutes every hour to do the reviews and lessons.
Yeah that makes sense. What did you do before, when you weren’t working from home?
When I was back at the office I was doing a more segmented schedule of reviews in the morning, at lunch, and then every hour after work. And also during bathroom breaks at work. I’d recommend getting a good WK app for your mobile device if you haven’t already.
Usually the meaning is clear, with maybe a couple strange ones in the pack. I’ll use the given mnemonics, and maybe create my own. Most of the readings are also easy, since I have learned them in the Kanji. The hard ones are the unlearned readings and the few vocab with kanji that have multiple possible onyomi (ie: 大 and 人). Overall, that is like less than a quarter of what needs to be given, so just getting 75% of the hard stuff is enough to get a good enough ratio overall. And the hard stuff will come out after a few failures.
Also, since @girakacheezer gave theirs, here is my WK stats:
Okay, cool. Well thanks for the alternative studying method. I do like the idea of having broken up lessons that are smaller. I’ll probably give it a try for a couple of days and see how it works out in terms of my liking and if I find it worth the switch. I’m just so used to grinding out reviews and lessons all at once because that’s the type of person I am. I like to sit down and just go to something until I finish it (of course that isn’t really realistic in some cases, but I still try and do it). But seeing how you’re a lot more efficient with this method I’m curious if I could make the switch or if it would mess with me too much haha.
And yeah, I’m actually a lot farther along in Japanese than “level 1”. Also, I’m trying to learn more so (now) the meanings from reading rather than just the meaning of kanji. I’ve had a lot of trouble hearing words I know, and seeing words I know when they are just in kana - so I rely too heavily on the kanji to get the meaning.
Anyone else get a random new lesson today? Just got 広がる in my vocab at level 60 with no new lessons.
Edit: Just found a content update thread.
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Y-you’re a tease
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Ok, I’ll be direct. I LOVE YOU INSPECTATORO-SAN
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b-baka!
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i love you too kumirei! 
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I am really interested in the idea of different SRS ranges. I would benefit from a third guru level, like a second two week review.
Count me in for appreciating the -1hr thing, too. It really does make a difference, even when you might not know it.
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Interesting thing with the grammar. So you think that in the future there won’t be two products (WaniKani and EtoEto) but just WaniKani (which also includes grammar)?
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That would be awesome! (For the same price of lifetime we already paid 
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