Drop your level up chart here šŸ“ˆ

Iā€™m happy to see more ā€œreasonableā€ times here! I usually see nothing but crazy people who level up every week (no offense :laughing:)

Iā€™ve been pretty happy going at my own pace. Iā€™m not super consistent but Iā€™ve never given up since I started, just progressing slowly but surely :slight_smile:

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Dont worry about that first spike, that was me on a bad day of learning Japanese and deciding to take a break. Now I am comitted and my goal is to stay under 2 weeks per level. So far I would say itā€™s looking like it is possible because I am doing my reviews every day. Usually 1-2 times per day when I work, or as often as I can when I am at home.

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This combined with Uni studies really felt like hell tbh. I like it though since hell has a nice atmosphere and being able to read so much is so motivating.

Big warning! I donā€™t recommend this pace unless you want to have 300+ reviews/day

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Mine looks like crap. Decided to take a breather at 49, was paranoid about burning out and didnā€™t want to trip on the finish line.

Edit: When i took another look at the chart I noticed that Iā€™ve been slacking. Couldā€™ve done so much better but whatever.

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I try to be consistent with my level-up timing. I am currently in the fast levels and tried to finish them in 3-4 days. Sure enough that was a bad idea :rofl: I will go back to my 7-8 days schedule. The only thing that motivates me to do my review is actually being in Japan and feels my reading comprehension really getting better everytime.

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I feel like mine is particularly messy - I discovered WaniKani when I first got into Japanese and I signed up for it, but it turned out I wasnā€™t ready to study kanji seriously until 2 years later, when I jumped into Level 1 again and managed a pretty good pace during the pandemic lockdown. As you can see, I hit a brutal wall at Level 32. I had to stop and reconsider how I was going to change my approach, since I had built up a critical mass of leeches and items in the Apprentice levels.

I feel good about my current relationship with WaniKani - I do all my reviews every morning and every night, and a few lessons each day. I have switched my focus to reading and speaking, but I still very much want to go all the way to Level 60. It will probably take me another couple of years, but I find that I already can recognize the majority of the kanji in manga and visual novels, and that makes me happy and willing to be patient to learn the rest.

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Mineā€™s quite a wild ride too :grin:

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Youā€™re almost there! Must be nice to have Level 60 in sight!

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Surely so!

Not doing any lesssons before the JLPT in December though, so I can focus on more important things at the moment.
Should still finish either in December or early January :grin:

It is a bit sad though, WK has become such an integral part of my day :sweat_smile:

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Leveling up pretty fast also since I only started as soon as I already had a year experience (with Duolingo) in japanese, no focus on learning the kanji though. Although I definitely struggle on the current levels, as they feature kanji I never seen or heard before and I dont find as much time for WK as I used to.

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Behold my slowness. :smiling_face_with_tear:

Believe it or not, I was doing reviews pretty consistently the whole time, so I have a huge burn pile. I just didnā€™t have the time/health/energy for new lessons, so it stagnated.

Iā€™m trying for 15 WaniKani lessons/day now, plus Anki vocab and Genki, and itā€™s going much faster. It feels nice to make progress.

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Only putting this here to make me go fasterā€¦

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Screenshot 2022-12-07 9.51.56 AM
Letā€™s just say I started in 2016 and didnā€™t come back until this yearā€¦ :grimacing:

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Hi bro,
How is your japanese language now after you finish level 60? Can you read japanese book or news easily?
Im new learner. Thankou

Not the person you asked, but 60. I can read pretty much anything, the problem is vocabulary. I can guess most readings and the meaning of the word generally, the problem is that I donā€™t really know the definition. I would probably guess youā€™d need anything between 25-30k words to get anywhere close to fluency.

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omg the consistency, it looks REALLY nice. I knew you put in a lot of hard work sticking to the schedule everyday. mine was pretty level in the early days and i managed to keep it until later this year when i had my first job. since then some levels are starting to take a long time :sob: i get motivated from yours though!

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Iā€™ve found a rhythm that works quite well for now.

Weā€™ll see how long I can keep it up!
Iā€™m currently levelling up each Saturday morning which mean I do my reviews and lesson over the day.
Itā€™s getting a bit tiresome but I really donā€™t like notification and canā€™t leave lessons waitingā€¦

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