Hello one and all. I first joined WaniKani in 2020–I think WK Stats has me at 2200 days of being a WK User. Now, I know that so many individuals have finished to Level 60 in the time I’ve simply ~thought~ about getting back into it, but there has to be others like me out there who come back around a…

I feel this on being overwhelmed—I was in Japan for a year during 2023 and was bummed I couldn’t get though wanikani, but really I was already learning so much everyday in my rural town that I couldn’t pick anything up in my brain that was extra! I had been spending time learning kanji independentl…

[image] Litehawk: My advice for anyone lvl 20-30 is to play the original Ace Attorney trilogy. I’ve found that a LOT of kanji and vocab that you encounter a billion times in those games are in levels 20-30 and it’s a great kind of supplemental fun non-WK way to learn. I still remember that ra…

I started in March 2020 and am on level 20. What level are you? Slow and steady wins the race. But we aren’t steady. We keep plugging along. I’ve prioritized my reviews over learning new, and started KameSame to help go from English to Japanese. I was excited to take N3 when I go to Japan, unt…

Same here, just checked my heatmap and I started back in Oct 2020. Been on and off over the past almost 6 years. But started again last year and have stuck with it (except over the Xmas/New Year break). The main thing that motivated me again was I finally bit the bullet and booked a trip to Japan la…

I first started in 2017…the first time around I got to level 13 where I then proceeded to fall off a cliff with my reviews. I also had a lot of bad habits - using plugins that made it feel like I was cheating the srs. I’ve restarted several times since then, but it’s been a few years since I’ve acti…

I am so happy I am not the only one. I left WK last year because i was busy and then afraid of the reviews :smiley: I was on level 16 and now went back to 10 and I still have 700 reviews to go, but I try not to stress myself too much with it :slight_smile:

Hi everyone. Do you have advice for me on how to start again? I was on Level 37 before I went on hiatus since almost a year and a half. I am still able to read a lot of the kanjis i learned, but whenever I try to go back to reviews (2270 items), I am overwhelmed. :smiling_face_with_tear:

Honestly? Just gotta set aside some time and do a few hundred a day. That’s how I’ve overcome this same situation multiple times. It was a slog, but it was necessary.

Yeah, I agree with Litehawk. I basically just would open it, do as many as I felt reasonable in the time I had and then move on with my day. Been timing my reviews recently and I’m only spending like 20 minutes a day on it now that I’m caught up–so I’m bullying myself into doing it on days I feel m…

[Capture] Adding my voice to the ‘took many long breaks since discovering wanikani’ club! It’s a steady march forward and sometimes you just have to laze about in a river or two on the way :slight_smile:

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maru_maru June 3, 2026, 12:10am 28

Fellow slow learner here! Taken a lot of vacation through the years, been tracking my progress in the Artemis III thread latetly. Maybe some of y’all can join and we can get some momentum goin.

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