I’m still in the very early levels of WK and been levelling up within about nine days per level until this level. This level, I checked my stats and realised I was sitting with like over 100 vocab lessons from like level three onward that I still hadn’t done. I’d been doing the ol’ ‘ten lessons a day’ routine which had worked to level up, but I didn’t anticipate the backlog of vocab.
So I’ve been working on level seven for about two weeks now, smashing all the vocab, and now I’m finally ready to move on to this level’s kanji. Then I checked my stats and there’s still another 75 vocab lessons on this level until it’s cleared, but I’ll probably be able to level up before then.
My question is: is it better to just carry on, ten lessons a day, letting the system choose when I should be prioritising new kanji over previous level vocab, or is it a better idea to complete a lesson’s vocab before levelling up?
I do all vocab before anything else. My logic is that vocab is there to reinforce the kanji I’ve learned, so isn’t better to do those first before adding more kanji?
Are you using a reorder script or did you change the review order settings? By default, you should be getting the vocabulary from the previous level before the new kanji/radicals for the new level. I find that most helpful for keeping up with reinforcing the kanji I learned and not having vocab pile up. You can check your lesson settings per instructions here.
I have it on level then subject! I wonder if it was a glitch or something then that I was levelling up with vocab from like two or three levels prior still to do?
Generally you should still level up (because that depends on getting your kanji to guru), but you should be getting lessons of the previous level’s vocab until you’ve finished those before getting the new radicals/kanji - that’s really weird. Unfortunately, I probably don’t know enough to help you troubleshoot.
I haven’t even started on the Level 5 Kanji yet. It works better for me to Guru most of the previous vocabulary first. It reinforces my kanji reading skills and, to me, it’s more structurally logic. You have to use the lesson filter script though.
i make sure that i’ve done all the vocab from the previous lesson before leveling up - ideally i want them done before i guru the radicals of the current level. but i do re-order my lessons, so that i can front-load the radicals and do a mix of kanji and vocab most days.
The system itself always makes you finish the vocab from previous level before starting the new level content. So probably if that’s not happening, you must be using a reorder script, and in that case you can’t just “trust the system”. It is pretty much impossible to finish all vocab before level up, because the last kanji will unlock more vocab from the previous level at the same time you level up, but it is usually best to finish the vocab before leveling the next level. I usually finish the vocab while I start doing radicals and Kanji, but once I start guruing those I must have finished the previous vocab (that usually means doing some days of only previous level vocab before starting the radicals/kanji.
@ElleBlair This may bit a bit out of left-field, but have you considered not counting really obvious vocab in your 10 per day rule right after leveling up? For example if you get a vocab where the readings are the same as you learned with the kanji, and the meaning is clear from the kanji, just don’t even count it. It probably will only take you 5 seconds to review both reading and meaning, and it will take you no effort to memorize, so you may as well just add them all right away. You’re re-ordering anyway so, I don’t see why not anyway.
I’m really confused because I’m not using any scripts or anything… I’m just using the iPhone app. And I’ve not changed any settings… it’s set to sort by level, then subject.
Maybe I’ve just got confused. I’m all caught up with vocab now, the only lessons I have are kanji, which I know will unlock new vocab. I’ll just make sure lessons are at zero before I level up.
I always finish the vocab while the kanji are fresh in my mind. So for my usual 11 day level up speed, the first few days after leveling are spent clearing out vocab.
If it’s Tsurukame on IOS then I have the same settings. Should be fine.
Just stick to your daily limit and apprentice limit to keep the pace manageable.
I did this with all the new content items. They’re super easy after having burned the matching items months ago so I don’t count them towards my daily or apprentice limits.
@ElleBlair you may want to see if the same thing works for you with easy vocab.
you recently gurud (<- how do people say this? ) some old kanji which unlocked the old vocab items => you don’t need to guru all kanji per level for the level up. Therefore, technically it is possible, in case some item is giving you a hard time, you’ll guru it after you already had moved on some level(s)
Getting old vocab from the previous level always can happen since some of the items will not be unlocked before the level up. Getting items from older levels (before the previous one) could be the result of one of the reasons I mentioned.
if you’re using Tsurukame (iphone app) then it has a setting built-in which reorders the lessons. that’d be in settings, prioritize current level. maybe it’s something like that?
…many of the apps for WK have script functions built-in
I do all the vocab lessons available before I level up.
Once I level up I’ll do all the radical and kanji lessons before I do any more vocab, but I’ll always make sure that I complete those vocab lessons before I guru the radicals and unlock the 2nd half of the kanji.
) some old kanji which unlocked the old vocab items => you don’t need to guru all kanji per level for the level up. Therefore, technically it is possible, in case some item is giving you a hard time, you’ll guru it after you already had moved on some level(s)