Just wanted to say to thank you for making this post. I was also considering restarting. I am level 60 and have been reading Japanese books for the past year or so. When reading, I will sometimes come across kanji that I know I have studied, but I can’t remember the reading of.
The general consensus in the thread is to move on and keep reading native material. I think that’s the best idea. It’s more challening than restarting Wanikani - and I think that is why reading native material is beneficial.
Thanks for the note! Since I posted this thread a couple months ago, I have taken the advice above & started reading more native Japanese material (mostly the free stuff at Learn Natively). Every time I don’t recognize a piece of vocabulary, I look it up on Wanikani and unburn it.
So far I’ve unburned hundreds of WK items, which is giving me a reality check for how easy it is to forget items you’ve “learned” if you never actually use them in reality. So I’m basically using WK as a custom SRS deck for my forgotten items now and I find it to be very helpful in this capacity.
(Plus I still have 1000+ unburned items from before so I’ll be working through those for a while yet! Still waiting on the return of that summary page though… )
Glad to hear that you’ve gotten into reading - I hope that it’s not “just” a learning experience and that you’re also enjoying it!
If you ever feel like this is getting too stressful for you, only unburn it on WK when you see it a second or third time and still don’t recognize it. It’s completely normal to not remember every single thing you ever SRS’d, and in a way reading and listening works almost like an SRS - if it’s an important word, you’ll see it repeatedly, and each time you’ll be closer to remembering it again. Over time you’ll even memorize new words that you never SRS’d in the first place! So you don’t have to put everything you don’t remember immediately back into an SRS.
Correct, same as Anki. Or also uses a 4 point scale (Very Hard, Hard, Ok, Good), tho you can put it to Yes/No if you prefer binary. I usually make it a point to say the answer outloud or on my head, before hitting show answer. WK is the only thing I know of that grades you (though there might be others out there)
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