The steady trickle of newly added items didn’t allow me to ever get 0 in apprentice. But, at least, most of my items are in guru 2 or higher. And I burned items up to level 54 where I’m ending things.
There will never be a perfect place to stop, so I might as well let this be my end station.
And, it’s not like I’m stopping my learning journey of Japanese. In fact, I’m keeping quite busy with book clubs and immersion projects instead So, next up for this blog will be posts about my current learning focus!
Though, seriously, I guess I should start using Anki. About time! ^^; I do need some sort of system to learn new kanji on my own, and what I did before Wanikani was much too slow. So, yeah, formalizing it a bit to get some repetition of words.
I guess I’ll search the forum threads for how to get started with Anki. ^>^
While I was okay with stopping using WK with the end of last month - WaniKani was not finished with me it turns out! Due to a bug, I got automatically resubbed. o_O
After some mail correspondence with the Wanikani team, they’re working things out, but in the meantime, I’ve been continuing to burn turtles.
I’ve put all my energy into immersion as of late, so precious little leech training. I guess, I should use my extra time doing some serious leech training today. sigh I would like to be able to learn as many of these items as possible, though I know it’s a struggle for me.
It’s probably best to do at least 2 sessions of all items, so that I really have tried my best at memorizing them. If that doesn’t work, there is little I can do but just try to learn them when encountering them in the wild later on. But, I should at least try a bit harder than I’ve done as of late.
I forgot to post here about that fateful day when the Crabigator finally allowed me off the hook. The result is a rather stark contrast to the busy Dashboard I’ve gotten used to.
While my time using WK is now officially over, I’ve taken the leap to using Anki. I’m setting up a work-flow for how to put items I encounter in the wild into decks for further review. ^^
I’m also thinking of bringing back KameSame to my daily routine.
In any case, my Japanese journey is far from over! ^>^
This is a good test for item inspector. It lets me know that Item Inspector doesn’t show items disallowed by the subscription. This is as it is supposed to work to comply with the API terms of services. I couldn’t test this before because I have a subscription.
I just realized I haven’t really been updating my study blog at all! ^^;
So what’s going on for my studies?
I’m mostly juggling manga- and anime clubs here on WK at the moment, but I’ve also made my way over to https://www.kanshudo.com and done some quizzes and grammar practice games. I’m back to listening to Drama CDs regularly again, so I’m defo getting my fill of listening practice. But, reading has been a bit lacking tbh. I already feel like I’m getting a bit rusty and need something more challenging.
That’s why I’ve set out to challenge myself a bit this month: FLESH & BLOOD. I’ve listened to the Drama CD adaption of this series, but never read the light novel original story. It’s not manga and so it’s a new challenge for me.
I switched computers during my time away from WK and realized I didn’t have any scripts running.
The reason for getting back to WK is that I’ve felt myself slipping more and more in my reading. For example struggling to read kanji I know I knew a year ago. And since I liked doing reviews before, I figured I should just try WK for a month and if it’s still fun, I’ll make that a year. Or I’ll keep adding a couple of months to my sub.
At first I thought I might reset some levels, but now I think I’ll just do my reviews normally. if my first review session was any indication, I’ll fail most items in Enlightened since it’s been roughly a year since I got them there.
But, that’s fine. With the Extra Study Mode, allowing me to study recently failed items, I can do some cramming of any failed items (rather than waiting around for the next chance to review them). This way, it allows me to avoid trying to re-study all items or something insane like that.
It should give me a manageable amount of studying each day. ^>^
For your information, Item Inspector has a failed last review table that will let you study items you have failed the last review. By default it will let you cram any item you have failed in the last 24 hours but this is customizable.
I finally got around to making another kanji cloud of my leeches. And let’s just be honest, it ain’t a pretty picture: I have an astounding 375 leeches right now.
And to be fair, of the 700-ish items in Enlightened, I expect all of them to fall back down to Apprentice.
Those are the harsh realities of taking a year-long break before continuing with burning items.
While I considered cramming the burnt items, I think it’s plenty to take on the burn reviews = lesson reviews as I now think of them as I try to re-learn items on the go. ^^;
Wish me luck! I have 20 burn/lesson reviews right now.
So, next up for this blog will be posts about my current learning focus!
just a heads up
I’m glad if some people somehow got a bit help on their way. ^>^
Due to a bug, I got automatically resubbed. o_O
Thanks for letting me know! <3 
