I’m going to the army in January for about six months (hopefully), since my country has mandatory military service. I’m wondering if doing Wanikani during the weekends, or maybe 30 minutes a day is enough practice for me not to forget everything I’ve learned up to that point. I’m currently level 2 so the reviews are easy enough to do and don’t take alot of time, but I have no idea how many daily reviews level 10 has for example.
Do higher levels have ridiculous amounts of reviews daily and how do you all manage to keep up with the reviews, if you don’t have alot of time to do them?
It depends on the speed you go at. Pace yourself, only take 5-10 new items a day, and you probably will fit into 30 minutes. Though if you can manage 2 review sessions, even if one is shorter, that would help remember the new items easier.
If you only do wanikani once a week it means that you’ll also only do lessons once a week, so the load should be relatively light unless you decide to do 50 lessons every weekend.
That being said remembering new items after 5 days of no exposure will probably be challenging.
If at all possible I’d recommend using a script to order reviews by SRS level (newer items first) and then spend 5 minutes doing your Apprentice reviews every night or something like that. It should be fairly light and at least this way you don’t mess with the review intervals too much. Then on the weekends you review the rest and do lessons.
Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. Normally in the army we have most of the evenings free, so there maybe won’t even be any problems doing reviews, but I guess we’ll see then.