What book is that?
I would suggest using KaniWani at the same time. That helps with word recall when youāre in a conversation. Also, I would recommend floflo.moe, a site you can use to read at varying levels (not to mention, because it was made by a fellow Crabigator worshipper, you can input your API key from WK). Thereās also NHK Easy, and my favourite, animelon, where you can watch anime with Japanese, English, and romaji subtitles (you can choose which).
Personally, I learned Japanese listening to Living Languages, though. Itās wonderful and indispensable. Seriously, it helped me so much.
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Did you start using Kaniwani from the start? I didnāt, and Iām seriously regretting it now that Iām talking with language partners. I want to start but Iām overwhelmed with how much ground I have to coverā¦
I didnāt, either, and too regret it. But then, I regret not going ahead with WK when I made an account in 2013. As it is, though, I donāt have enough time to do both WK and KW, so I have to wait until I take the JLPT this July, when Iām no longer studying so much every day (ironically), to start back up on KW.
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One option with the KW configuration is to only do reviews there for words that youāve burned here on WK. That way you get a fairly slow, steady trickle of material over there and youāre not overwhelmed with 15 levels worth of words.
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The standard setting is what @SleepyOne said, plus the current level. That is, KW takes the active items from your current level = those you have done the lessons for, plus the one you burned from previous levels. If you donāt have burned items yet (or few of them), it wonāt be overwhelming at all.
I started KW maybe two weeks ago, and itās actually nice.
Oh! So I can do both recent items and burned items by default? I went into the setting to change to only burned items.
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Well, thatās what I am doing.
You can also manually unlock some level or item.
I feel itās nice to use it for the current level, so that progress on both sides are mirrored. At the same time, getting burned items means I will eventually get everything, but slow and steady rather than all at once.
This one. I believe they make a problem book for each level.
Itās been a great help preparing for the test. Itās also structured in a way that recommends a certain amount of problems per day, then a review day, and encourages you to go back through each section after youāve finished the book once (there are spots to record whether you got a question right the first time through, the second time through, and the third).
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I actually originally learned Japanese by mashing my face head-first into light novels armed with only Excel documents and Rikai-chan on Firefox. It was a slow and tedious process, but, even now over half-way through kanji, Iāve learned the meanings of more kanji from my raw translating than I have from WK so far.
As youāre already taking steps to learning Japanese outside of that, you are a much more intelligent person than I was! However, donāt disregard attempting. While I donāt recommend trying to immediately read an entire novel series (unless you happen to have a huge amount of free time and great patience), but I do recommend buying at least one light novel and setting a goal for yourself.
Translating a single sentence a day can be highly beneficial not only to learning kanji and vocabulary, but also grammar. At first, youāll definitely have to use electronic assistance (likely an e-dict and Google translate), but if you take the time to research why a sentence is the way it is, youāll learn grammar more quickly and deeply than any SRS or blog post can teach you.
Due to its character-based nature, it is possible to be able to translate Japanese (visuals) without being able to read any of it aloud (sounds), but that ability should only be used as a basis to attempt early translating while you learning the meanings, readings, and grammar points properly through other resources.
As a fellow LN reader and hobbyist translator, I wish you smooth learning!
N4, N3, and N2 grammar and dokkai books.
Just sped through N4 though since a lot it is taught in Genki 2, and Iām not finished with N2.
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Hi, yes I do, Iām a premium member, and I would say itās worth it. The part of Japanese I struggle with the most is listening/speaking just like you, and this is invaluable to helping that. I donāt know about the Premium-plus beyond that, personally I donāt see that as being worth it, but maybe it is for you.
Hope this helps
Did you ever try the listening comprehension books? If so Iām curious why youāre not using it anymore.
No, listening is my strong point so I didnāt bother to. I have the N2 Choukai, but I havenāt tried it yet
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This is a bit of a late response, but Iām interested in getting that mirrored progress on Kaniwani. I currently have my reviews to burned items only, but I also want to be working on my level 16 reviews and canāt unlock any 16 items with burned only enabledā¦
Do I just have to go down to apprentice and pick and choose what items to unlock?
Iām not sure. The setting was like that when I started. I didnāt touch anything.
I guess you could put it to ādefaultā? Not sure.
Shoot. I donāt seem to have a default option. Thank you for responding! Iāll see if I can figure it out. 
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They are pretty reactive in the KW thread on the forum. You will probably have more luck if you ask there. 
Thank you for the suggestions! Iām just catching the KW thread and it address the issue I have with WK. floflo looks great as well and Iāve been using NHK easy lately. Iāve been studying for a while and Iām completely new to all these wonderful resourcesā¦glad I left the cave.
I have to wonder how animelon is free.It has a library selection similar to crunchyroll. The kana selection is super useful.
Was wondering the same thing. Iām assuming itās not 100% legal what theyāre doing. But I hope Iām wrong.