Hi all, I want to start out by saying that WaniKani has grown on me really quickly and I find it to be a great tool to facilitate my kanji learning and Japanese studies in general. That said, I’ve a number of frustrations that I have to get off my chest. I feel like it’s extremely easy to get som…

I mean, besides the colored backgrounds it does tell you exactly what it’s looking for during reviews [image] [image] Taking an extra moment to confirm what an item is looking for can help prevent a lot of mistakes moving forward, but for any mistakes you absolutely did know, you could install so…

It can be incredibly frustrating can’t it ! BUT - to me the colour system is pretty clear, and it states whether is wants a kanji reading or vocab reading - maybe it will just take a little longer to get used to it ? you are after all still in the early days of your wanikani journey. alternatively…

[image] slothysloth: I could go on and on. I just wish WaniKani would do the “We’re looking for X” (like they do with onyomi vs. kunyomi) and not count it as wrong. When they do that, the reason is because you weren’t actually wrong. So of course they aren’t going to penalize you. These other…

There is a script that allows you to ignore your wrong answer. I use this in those cases, as I don’t got it wrong in my opinion, rather misunderstood the question.

I agree, I’m not contesting that what it’s telling you is unambiguous. My complaint is that when I am doing a string of 100 reviews, it can be really easy to accidentally put in a kanji meaning rather than a vocab, or put in a reading rather than a meaning, etc.

Like when a vocab comes up and asks me for the meaning, if I accidentally put in the reading instead, I obviously misunderstood the question (which is why I would prefer there were more guard rails for such a situation). If I answer the meaning of 木 is ki, I obviously don’t think it means “ki”, I ju…

Thanks Ddjross, I’m avoiding scripts for exactly that reason. I’d rather overpractice than erroneously convince myself I know something when i don’t.

I would say also that the precision matters and becomes more important as time goes on. It gets easy to mix up on’, kun’, and vocab readings as you see more and more “exceptions” to the readings.

I totally get the frustration, but you will very quickly reach a stage where you subconsciously pick up on reading / meaning, kanji / vocab etc. I don’t even remember the last time I got something wrong because of that issue. The question bar actually changes colour as well, depending on whether it…

I was skeptical about it but I like double check a lot now. It removes a lot of the frustration for me. Things like missing synonyms, verbs that have or don’t have “to”, confusing kanji and vocab, etc. (Override is a bit too much like cheating even for me.) It all just doesn’t matter so much now si…

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Liras September 12, 2018, 7:57pm 13

Just use this script then: WaniKani Review Order - (Radical/Kanji/Vocab order) Userscript Extension

It allows you to order your reviews so that WK will always ask for the meaning first and then for the reading. It makes your life so much easier.

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