I had a short conversation with a reddit user who told me that they felt that WK had lots of incorrect translations of vocab words on the basis that they would talk with native speakers who would tell them “no one says that” when using vocab words that they learned on WK. They were unable to give m…

There aren’t incorrect vocab words in the sense that they ARE correct. It’s just that some of the vocab is outdated? I remember a thread a while back talking about this issue with 里心. Like that reddit user said, the vocab is just stuff no one says anymore. But it’s not wrong. (And dammit I was snipe…

Well, it’s kind of half right. I think translations that could be termed incorrect are very few and far between, if there’s even any. However, there are a lot of unusual to borderline obsolete words floating around on here. In my opinion, WK could do a lot better job of flagging them up, but they ar…

You should definitely supplement your vocab. I’d recommend an Anki 10k deck with audio

Okay that’s good to know. I mean even knowing old words should definitely help with reading texts that use more obtuse language even if they’re vocab you want encounter in daily life. My goal is to be able to read and understand everything, not just to be conversationally competent.

When using such a deck is it possible to pick and choose which words you work on so they don’t use kanji I haven’t learned through WK or my grammar studies yet? @Kumirei

There are plenty of such decks available. Check out the ones on the resource wiki [image] The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List! Resources This post is a list of Japanese resources and stands as a collaborative wiki gathered by the WaniKani Community. If there’s …

I downloaded the one on that page, however it has a lot of vocab for words already taught by WK and phrases/sentences with kanji not from that level (I posted about it asking for help here: Question about Anki 10K deck by WK level? ) Mostly I don’t want to cover old material that WK has downsolid, s…

I haven’t used that one myself but I’ll download it and have a look

[image] colorandlight: should I just delete vocab I already know from the deck? if you run across something in an anki deck you already know, you can just delete the card right then and there, or you can hit “suspend.” Being a bit of a completionist, I like to leave the card in the deck and …

You have to understand what WK is. It teaches kanji and thus all of the vocab is kanji vocab, so you get a lot of jukugo words. IIRC, a Japanese dictionary is comprised of 70% jukugo words of Chinese origin, but in conversation, those kinds of words only make up 30% of words spoken. Words of Japane…

Are there incorrect vocab words on WK? How best to supplement vocab with other sources?

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There are plenty of such decks available. Check out the ones on the resource wiki

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Are there incorrect vocab words on WK? How best to supplement vocab with other sources?

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