I was speeding until level 31, when I burned out, so I slowed down, but recently I started speeding again!
Just under 2 years if you ignore the beginning where I registered but didnāt bother using it immediately because I had been working insane hours. I started using the reorder addon in the 40s and ended up resetting to re-review everything from just before I started using the reorder add on. But until then, this is inclusive of all the vocabulary and kanji.
Mind you, I work a full time job, have a 2 hour total commute, plus a small rambunctious child so ā¦ I think I did ok.
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You finished level 60 and then reset to before level 40? Why?
Iām planning on redoing everything once I finish wanikani, but on kaniwani instead that way I can redo it and get something more out of it.
The review reorder add on, mostly - I installed it around level 46 or 47, forgot exactly when. I started ignoring vocab in favor of levelling up and by the time I hit 60, felt that I had a much weaker grasp of the last 15 or so levels because of it, so reset - I know a lot of people here ignore vocab, but I found it really did help reinforce readings with the kanji. Also, had nearly 2500 reviews at the end and while I brought it down to 1500 at some point, felt it would just be easier to re-review everything from pre reorder and went back to 45 for a bit, then further back to 40 just to clear out some of the backlog.
Since this is a lifetime account, Iām in no particular rush, especially since I take classes and that goes much more slowly since itās once a week - I made it to N4 in classes in the same amount of time it took me to get to level 60 in WK. I started KW from the beginning recently, but to focus very heavily on production since my classes emphasizes speaking and listening comprehension.
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About 8 years
Level 16 only took three years.
Iām happy to pay WK just for showing me that learning Japanese can be only half as hard as I thought it would be yet require twice as much effort as Iām wiling to put in.
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Way too much time. I somehow stopped using Wanikani for 3 years, and somehow started to use it again. I guess thatās a negative side effect of being a lifetime user.
I try not to think about it because itās kind of depressing. Even though I started learning Japanese 10 years ago and lived in Japan for about a year, I would barely pass N2.
Did I win the longest break contest? I hope so!
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I think you win. Some of us have spent 4-5 years on level 1, but I donāt think that counts as a break (since we never even started).
I started last September, but spent the first 20 days not knowing I needed to go on the website (thought it was an app) so I guess I started properly in October. That would mean It took me about 10 months to reach level 40.
I recently had to slow down because the daily reviews were getting too much, spent a couple of days getting all my lessons done and feel a lot better for it. Itās hard to resist leveling up for long though!
I started in mid Nov 17, so ~8.5 months to do 33 levels.
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I dontā think a level 1 break is a break at all
Let the kid win this one
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Ohhh, ābreakā. I skipped that part for some reason Iām so sorry @bm01 D:::::::::::::::::
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āKidāā¦ Ha! I wish.
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I was checking and seems I finished the first 40 levels in exactly 9 months, thatās OCD satisfying
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I reached level 24 in just under 10 months. I hope to finish level 30 by my WaniKanniversary (10th of Dec), and I seem to be on track!
I finished level 23 in 7d12h, though most levels have been around 9/10 days, with a couple of lesson breaks on certain levels (midpainfuls, anyone?), and one 1 week vacation mode.
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To get to level 45 took me 5 years minus seven months (for about three months or so I was overwhelmed and burnt out by study abroad, a stint of college senioritis, and also working part-time and the backlog developed from that). So more like four years and five months. Ha. Iāve done about one level per month, so my average is 25 days when I take out the outliers. Could be worseā¦ Tbh this is about the pace I expected. These past couple of months I havenāt been doing reviews on the weekends. If I did I think I would be doing 2-week levels again. I think another thing that has affected me is that since the backlogs developed, I have been very conservative about adding new vocabulary to avoid a too-rapid pace (keeping apprentice level items below 130 or so - and I didnāt even have the reorder script!) and that has slowed me down. I may change that. I want to be mostly done with WK by the summer of next year.
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This is super impressive, clearing each level in about 8 days more or less. How much time do you think you spent on this per-day? And how would you consider your Kanji knowledge?
It probably took around 1-2 hours each day when it was the most intensive. I cleared my review queue three times a day.
As is probably the case with many wanikanians, kanji is definitely the (comparatively) easiest part of Japanese for me (listening comprehension is the most difficult!).
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listening comprehension is also the most difficult for me! What do you practice with to help your listening comprehension?