Heatmap Stories! (WaniKani Activity Chart)

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Short history, I was subscribed for two years, burned out hard, and quit when the subscription ran out. After the extended break, I bought Lifetime during the sale last Januaryā€¦and proceeded to slack off for three months lol.

But since a few days I started doing reviews again, and today I came upon this kanji: č¢–

Looked hard at it, said to myself, ā€œNope, donā€™t recognize you,ā€ and clicked Skip. When it came back around later (reading) I had a gut feeling that it was 恗悅恆, and what do you know itā€™s right. A few items later the meaning comes around, and my fingers reflexively typed sleev (yes with that misspelling). AND IT WAS CORRECT.

And it was a burn too.

I am just astounded how it was a subconscious thing, and that I actually remembered somehow (despite the others Iā€™ve clearly forgottenā€”the leeches that are becoming even more leech-y now that theyā€™ve been untrained). But to me this is a small achievement, and I know that if I push on I can definitely, if slowly, reach level 60.

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Man, this script is very special to me.

A month and a half ago, I had a stack of 1000 lessons and 1800 reviews. I started using the reorder script January 2020 to ā€˜learn fasterā€™, and you can see it eventually led to burnout and lesson ignoring. To say I was half-assing and cutting corners would be an understatement.

In May this year, though, I was browsing the forums and saw Kumiā€™s heatmap script. I installed it 'cuz Iā€™m a sucker for quantifying progress (the whole reason I used reorder script in the first place), and then I looked at and had a simple but serious realization.

ā€œIā€™VE WASTED SOOOO MUCH TIMEā€

This realization rekindled the original passion and urgency I had for learning Japanese way back when I started, in a way thatā€™s kind of indescribable.

So I started clearing the piles. As many reviews as I could possibly do at first, then adding in lessons after reviews were manageable. 2-4 hours a day. By the end of the first week, the review stack was goneā€“and by the end of the second, I added in lessons, too.

Now, I think Iā€™m back on track. I have only about 100 lessons (from the most recent level up), and Iā€™m zeroing my reviews every night :grin:
Iā€™m also doing daily listening and reading practice again, which I hadnā€™t done for a while.

So thanks, @Kumirei. You helped rekindle my love for Japanese.

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Good job! Now donā€™t break that streak winko

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New Heatmap update. Last one was 505 days ago lmao.
Seeing this makes me reconsider why Iā€™m even doing all this. I didnā€™t really expect anything but I thought Iā€™d be a bit further with Japanese by now but I didnā€™t really invest the time I could have so thereā€™s that.
However, I wont ever go to Japan nor did I have a reason why I started. But unlike most other things I tried that I was never able to make a habit and keep up with long-term like programming, playing an instrument or other hobbies and such, of all things Japanese is what stuck. :joy:

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Fun?

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Hehe, absolutely! It wasnā€™t meant too seriously else I wouldnā€™t still be here after all. :grin:

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The amount of reviews have dropped to the point where Iā€™m only visiting WK twice a week. Only had 26 reviews this entire month. Gave up on keeping a streak, not enough reviews to keep it going.

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Slowly making my way to 60 with lots of little breaks in between for university and work! Hopefully will hit 60 by the end of the year.

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Very reminiscent of my own heatmap!

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i just want to share mine lol

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Love the heatmap. No gaps yet :partying_face:

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Hereā€™s what mine currently looks like. You can see my thesis deadline in July and the 1.5 week I went on vacation in October. Other than that thereā€™s not much to see, aside from me gradually leveling up slower the further I get :grin:

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My streak broke today. I was too busy shopping and fretting and worrying about stuff that I just kinda forgot about WK lol. Well I just get like 60 reviews per day now so I guess itā€™s about time to slowly move on from WK and focus more on my Anki decks and immersion.

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Today I reached a milestone: 1000 days of clearing my reviews.
(Iā€™m on the 6-year plan, aiming for consistency rather than speed.)

The light colours are where I dropped back to 1 lesson per day instead of quitting.

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I could make a joke about viola players and speedā€¦ :smiley: because Iā€™m one myself :slight_smile: nice profile picture!
By the way, I started learning in
image
:slight_smile:

Never too late to start or continue anything, keep it up!

ps: what do viola players and lightning have in common? ā€¦ They never hit the same spot twice! :wink:

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Another milestone today: 1000 days of lessons at my snailā€™s pace.

Thanks to @Kumirei
:bowing_man:

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Oh my, that is very impressive! Must be a record lesson streak

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Woah the 1000 lesson streak is really impressive

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I donā€™t have any reviews to do today. I think this is going to break my streak even though I tried :frowning:

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