How long does it take to get to level 2?

[Adsf2342]

This actually helps a lot, thank you!

[alo]

Level 1 took me 17 days and 4 hours so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

The Wanikani intervals are as follows:

Apprentice 1 → 4 hours → Apprentice 2
Apprentice 2 → 8 hours → Apprentice 3
Apprentice 3 → 1 day → Apprentice 4
Apprentice 4 → 2 days → Guru 1
Guru 1 → 1 week → Guru 2
Guru 2 → 2 weeks → Master
Master → 1 month → Enlightened
Enlightened → 4 months → Burned

For Level 1 & 2 the SRS timings are accelerated for the Apprentice stage.

Apprentice 1 → 2 hours → Apprentice 2
Apprentice 2 → 4 hours → Apprentice 3
Apprentice 3 → 8 hours → Apprentice 4
Apprentice 4 → 1 day → Guru 1

You can see that the Apprentice levels lend themselves to having review sessions spaced evenly throughout the day, but many people get by with a single session a day.

Like @izzyfizz96 said, just try to start building a routine for yourself that you can stick to long term.

[MegaZeroX]

That time interval is outdated. The “1 day” is now 23 hours according to @jprspereira

[jprspereira]

@Adsf2342 I recommend reading my guide to Wanikani if you haven’t already Mainly up to chapter 7. I wrote it with the purpose of making it very easy for a beginner to know how Wanikani works and how one can have the best learning experience out of it.

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[WhiteWalker]

It took me 8 days, and I had to really slog it out. I had absolutely no exposure to Japanese, expect for having started learning Hiragana a few days prior to starting WaniKani.

Apart from the other great posts on this thread explaining level up’s, I would also suggest you spend some time on these forums - looking through user scripts, book clubs, other resources etc. I have decided that I’m going to take it slow going forward - and start spending time on grammar, listening (music, manga) until I hit level 20.

[alo]

I thought they reverted that change after people complained? Is it now in effect?

[MegaZeroX]

No, people complained that the 23 hour stuff was going to get moved to 24 hour. They decided not to do it, and I can only assume that in doing that they moved the 24 hour level 1/level 2 interval to 23 hours to have it match.