おめでとう！
次は何ですか。
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@eglepe To each his own. Language learning is no exact science and there are many different opinions and preferences. Everyone has different goals as well.
Kanji give you a lot of visual clues. If you only practice reading, then you won’t be able to do listening comprehension with confidence because you aren’t really practicing to remember what the words sound like (not talking about you). Pulling Japanese words (and kanji) out of thin air without the visual clues (by practicing English-to-Japanese) is much harder.
My goal is not to learn Japanese as quickly or efficiently as possible. It’s more of a life-long hobby for me. I’m just doing what I want in the way I want to. I enjoy doing the “self-taught” thing even if it means spending extra time constructing intermediary training wheels for myself.
It sounds like you have a process with your italki tutor that is working for you and is quite possibly more efficient and immersive than what I’m doing, so carry on 
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@WaniTsunami 次は文法、聞き取り、読解、アニメ、漫画、ビデオゲームですよ。
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Yeah, I wasn’t trying to impose my way or anything haha, just sharing my opinion. If you’re happy with your method that’s all that matters
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Hey check out them new items. More items to burn!
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I didn’t even know there is an ignore button. 
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I will look for the note section and try using it.
Thanks
A big congratulations to you! You continued without give up. I am pretty sure it’s going to take me more than 6 years
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@plantron Yup, I chuckled when WK added new items a week later.
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@Ger WaniKani does not have an ignore button. It can be added via a 3rd party “user script” and a browser plugin (Tampermonkey). Here’s a website to find and install such scripts:
https://greasyfork.org/en
I think the specific script for the ignore button is called WaniKani Override. You have to experiment though. There are multiple versions and many or all of them are out of date and thus don’t work or even cause bugs on WK.
I would recommend researching user scripts. There is plenty of information on WK Community and Google.
Oh thank you for the information. I don’t think I will be adding it. I need as much practice as I can get. My brain is like a sieve.
Ger
@Ger Sounds pretty normal. I feel that way too sometimes 
. I found that note taking helps.
Congratulations for this achievement! 6 years is not a joke, I am amazed with your passion and commitment in WaniKani. I hope you get highly rewarded by this.
Thank you 
. I still practice everyday. I need to start focusing more on practicing vocabulary in the context of sentences. Good luck to you!
I stand in the shadow of your greatness.
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Very well done.
I still haven’t burned everything despite having burned 9064 items, sine there have been content updates recently. Even with all the burns, I have 7 items still in apprentice.
I’ve been reading a lot of native Japanese lately, so usually when there are content updates, it’s material I already know - stop these items will make it through the queues steadily on their way to burning. I know I do have a few leeches remaining as well.
I’m happy to see 78 items in Enlightened. I’m thinking that a lot of these are newer content that will go up in flames soon.
You didn’t give up even as a Connie Chihuahua tried to nip at your ankles right at the finish line
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That’s impressive. I still struggle with native Japanese content. It just takes so much time and patience to look things up.
Regarding the recent and frequent WK content additions, “I know that feeling” 
It does, but at one point I just decided to take some of time I was spending on SRS every day and use it instead for reading. Even a half hour a day of picking through native material like an archaeologist will pay dividends over time. All those dictionary lookups are sort of their own form of SRS, and you’re getting grammar, proper nouns, and idioms and cultural references that you would rarely get from SRS.
As you mentioned, the gains are slow, and it probably takes about a year before you really notice things getting better. I think this series of books is a pretty good place to start.
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