Sure, agreed! But I can’t find two hours per day to study Japanese, much less two hours to dedicate to kanji/WK alone (and I don’t think it’d be a good move, if your goal is to learn japanese.) I think many people won’t, and it’s important not to give people the impression that it is easy or even possible with a regular job, family and life to do this. There are definitely sacrifices, in my opinion. Hence, yes, totally realistic, but you’re giving up something else, be that working hours, family life or actually learning Japanese.
You can speedrun the first 15 levels without too much pain. I’ve done as much, in the past. Past that, it really does escalate.
EDIT: I agree it’s a good idea to get the first levels done quick, and slowing down.
I am pretty blessed with my job because I mostly work from home and don’t have that much of a workload that keeps stressing me out, which means reviews are perfect for me to do in small batches spread out over the day, even if it adds up to a couple hours. I think right now I have pretty solid conditions in my life to learn japanese faster than normally so I would like to take advantage of that.
I definitely have to read up on the script stuff to make it go smoother and more efficiently, thanks a lot! <3
The required time pretty much only depends on the amount of reviews, as the time spent doing lessons is negligible at these numbers. However, the number of required daily reviews depends on your average accuracy, and therefore cannot be completely predicted from just the number of lessons you do daily. I have seen several people claim 20ish lessons and 200 to 300 reviews daily for max speed. Personally I do less than 10 reviews daily, which already results in 150 to 200 daily reviews. If you extrapolate that, than this would result in well over 400 daily reviews for full speed, probably more because such a workload would further drop my accuracy.
If you want to compare review count with other people, you also need to match their accuracy to get the same results.
I also study Japanese outside of WK (grammar, conversation, reading and JLPT prep lately) , and have a work schedule that enables me some flexibility, and the one factor that determines how strenuous this will be is apprentice items.
Since level 35 I’ve been struggling a little, and my apprentice however around 200. This means more reviews a day and more time to commit.
I personally would not recommend going over 200. It can get rather overwhelming.
So I’d suggest going full speed until your apprentice items get close to 200, then slow down and readjust to not go over 200.
I would say no. You don’t have to go as fast as possible or slow as a snail all the time. You should do what you think you can handle atm. Then you can always tune up or tune down.
Really set your own base level of the minimum and hit that every day. SRS is more about building a routine that works for you and with life you have to adapt it as it is or how you want it to be.
Like even now when I’m done with wanikani I still use srs on a daily basis. And my minimum is adding 25 kanji per week (or 5 per weekday) in kanji study for stroke order. It’s 25 items in jpdb or whenever I feel I hit a good spot. Whenever I read I look up ahead where I would want to stop. Sometimes that’s easy and it’s simply the end of the chapter or volume.
Anyway find what works for yourself and go from there.
I went as fast as possible and burnt out at level 20 and stopped for almost 18 months. Burn out in Wanikani is real, so be very careful. In the 30s I also started to use Anki mode, which made reviewing much faster but at the cost of accuracy, so now in the 50s I’m getting like 300-400 reviews per day which I’m not sure is that sustainable in the long run, so I’m trying to pace a bit better now and not do lessons immediately.