Guys, I made a WaniKani account to learn Kanji, as did most of you, but I realized that I need to have a solid knowledge of at least Hiragana to be able to learn how to pronounce them and what Hiragana make them up.
I feel guilty when I ghost the notifications to learn Hiragana, and when I come back, I can’t learn the written pronunciations because I’m stupid in Hiragana.
All that said, I would like to delete my WaniKani account and make a new one AFTER I learn Hiragana, then I can learn Kanji and Katakana simultaneously.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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Are you paying for a subscription? Uou could probably cancel it by contacting the team.
But, I don’t see a reason to do that. Learning hiragana doesn’t take long and it will be constantly reinforced while you work on wanikani. My advice is to write out the hiragana several times, make some flashcards, and keep a reference for if/when you aren’t sure in the future. You can become relatively solid on the hiragana in a few days, in my opinion.
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Hello and welcome o/ !
In case this helps you, there is a lot of early useful stuff for the basics starting from absolute scratch.
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You can just reset all progress on your account if you want to start again
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Once you understand hiragana you can probably learn katakana in a day or two. Many do it in even less, because it’s essentially copying what you already did with hiragana (plus a few extras that rarely pop up). I found the Tofugu guide Yandros linked awesome for teaching both kinds of kana. Given how fast it’s likely to be studying katakana and that learning kanji is measured in years, I hope you can see why studying katakana along with kanji isn’t the normal way to go. It might be best to rip off the sticking plaster and just do katakana immediately after hiragana. You can always come back again if you feel the knowledge fading.
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Learning hiragana doesn’t take long. You can be done in a couple of weeks. You can practice them with some on-line games, for example kana bento
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Everyone’s made good points, but if you’re dead set on Deleting it, that’s in the danger zone of the settings.
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It doesn’t even give you the option to subscribe before you are level 3. So we can safely rule that out.
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Learning Kanji and Katakana simultaneously sounds a bit odd. Because what it takes to learn Katakana in days, it takes for Kanji in years. :o
The Hiragana guide from the same people who made WaniKani is here:
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Hiragana can be done really quickly - I ended up learning it over the course of a couple of nights, working on it on one monitor while watching the Gators advance to the Final Four (en route to the Championship, hooray!). Katakana is not too bad either - it’s a little trickier, and I’m having fuzzy patches with it now but those two are the easy part of the language by far.
One thing that helped and I should pick up again is the mobile app Ringotan (I don’t know if it’s on iOS, though) - but I would do a custom review daily where I’d run through and write the hiragana and katakana, which helps reinforce it. It doesn’t do the ones with the voice marks, but you’ll pick that up plenty as you read more or progress here in WK.
In any case, unless you really hated your username or something, there’s no point in deleting and starting over. You’re already here, and this is a great place for advice, whether or not you’re actively doing the WK content itself at the time.
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Maybe try this Anki deck to practice handwriting kana - imo handwriting helps retain the information better.
Just a quick correction: we discourage a subscription before Level 3 and have a pop-up on the subscription page, but someone can still subscribe before level 3 if they want.
@anon35750024 does not have a paid subscription, but if they need any help deleting their account or learning kana, they’re welcome to reach out to us at hello@wanikani.com 
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I think that this request may come from expectation that the free access axpires after some time.
WaniKani has no time limit. WaniKani gives free access to first 3 levels and subscription is only needed for the SRS for levels 4 and higher. All that content is still accessible for free, it just won’t be offered in SRS format.
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Just for context, I use Duolingo to learn Hiragana.
I used to use it for learning common phrases, but I forced myself to turn off the romanji so I don’t have to rely on it to read Japanese, and when it got hard, my ego wouldn’t let me turn it back on, so I decided to learn Hiragana (and Katakana).
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I don’t see a “Delete your Account” button.
There’s just a button to reset your account to any level you choose.
Below the rest account option is an option to delete your account.
Neither option can be undone, so please be sure before you do this!
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I think it’s better to keep moving forward, rather than create the “perfect learning experience.” You do want to learn hiragana. Romaji is kind of worthless for a learner, and you see it used a lot in teaching situations because most people shy away from the foreign looking characters, but that’s doing the learner a disservice.
What I’m trying to say is, just pause your kanji learning and go learn hiragana, then come back to the kanji. The kanji readings will help you practice hiragana. You can click on the word and hear it spoken aloud, which you can use to test yourself.
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