Dear WaniKani-Team! First of all I love WaniKani! But the system with the burned items should be changed. Actually I have just read a post in which a user lamented that he successive forgets burned items. I mean even with reading there are some kanjis you won’t encounter enough. In the community t…

I agree with this and I also completely see why people would like further reviews after the burn stage. I like the 8 month interval that anki provides but in all honesty, If you don’t see that word in the wild for more than 8 months or say, a year, do you really need to know it? I guess you are ask…

I think the problem lies in seeing WK as a kanji learning tool, but not necessarily taking the entire system (including the recommendations) into account, but only the visible and more flashy part of it. ▶ The Guide for using WK So, yeah, in the beginnig probably reading won’t be much of an option, …

Exactly! You’re not learning kanji just for the sake of knowing all of them devoid of context. It’s through exposure to native material that you will truly “Burn” any kanji or vocabulary and even then if you come across a character that you don’t understand then you simply get out the dictionary and…

What I’d like to see is a burn review game! iKnow.jp has this awesome bird game which gives you a few seconds to decide after seeing a word and 2 possible translations whether to press up or down. Get it correct, the bird flies, incorrect and it crashes to the ground. So good :slight_smile:

Good morning :sunny: [image] heisamaniac: but in all honesty, If you don’t see that word in the wild for more than 8 months or say, a year, do you really need to know it? I do agree with this in the general sense but couldn’t you argue that if in 8 MONTHS you didn’t see an item in the wild t…

[image] idiomargot: I do agree with this in the general sense but couldn’t you argue that if in 8 MONTHS you didn’t see an item in the wild that is formed from one of the 2000 most common kanji that perhaps you aren’t reading enough? Absolutely! I didn’t make it clear at all but my morning br…

[image] Kaizuki: Yeah I know this script, but I want to learn with SRS ^^ Did you even read the script? How is unburning items not learning with SRS?

I‘m assuming what they are missing is an option to review only items that you burned x months ago? Otherwise you might be reviewing items that you just burned, so there would be no spaced repetition. Unless there already is an option to do that and I missed it too. (That being said, I like the curr…

@seanblue I mean it is SPS, but it resets the items to the beginning and that is too much. The burned items are perfectly in my memory (for now), but my concern is, if I will be able to recall the items perfectly in a year or so. That’s why I would appreciate a check mechanism, so that the burned i…

Burned System is flawed

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Rowena August 5, 2018, 12:05pm 10

Someone else suggested using WK long term and this was Koichi’s reply:

Topic		Replies	Views
Feature Request: Unburn without resetting Feedback	23	1472	October 9, 2024
Is the WK system flawed? WaniKani	34	2938	April 13, 2021
I FORGET burned items! Requesting Help	51	10928	September 24, 2019
Wanikani recapitulation WaniKani	25	1090	August 28, 2019
Option to disable burning items Feedback	29	1106	December 18, 2025

Burned System is flawed

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