How often does Wanikani get new members?

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Only a curiosity related topic. Has there been a lot of new members recently? I feel like there has. Where do new members usually come from or who do they hear Wanikani from?

Maybe a poll can be made on this?

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I came from youtube videos recommending WaniKani to learn Kanji :slight_smile:

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Well Iā€™m pretty new so I can give you my experience :grin:

Iā€™ve started studying Japanese a while ago and Iā€™m always looking around for new tools to help me learn, although weirdly enough I didnā€™t find WK on my own. A friend of mine told me about it after someone in his Japanese class explained to him how he learnt kanjis so fast.
Maybe WK needs better exposure ? Or maybe my research was sloppy. :neutral_face:

Really ? I donā€™t think I ever saw someone promote WK on youtube. People often talk about Anki, Memrise or books though.

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I knew about wanikani from a review of a kana learning app in playstore.

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For me, it was Tofugu. The first hit on Google for ā€œlearning japaneseā€ is their detailed guide. I liked how they thought of and provided everything I needed to know and now here I am.

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I had heard about it now and then for various people over the period of a year before I decided to look it up. Should Have looked it up earlier.

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Koichi lays his eggs and they are blessed by the Holy Crabigator. When they hatch, they grow up to become new WaniKani members.

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I knew about Tofugu so self advertisement I guess

Hmmmā€¦ I donā€™t remember exactly how I found about Tofugu, I believe I was searching for something and stumbled upon some of their articles. Then one thing led to another

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For me, jisho.org was my dictionary of choice for looking up words I didnā€™t know. One day, I noticed some of the words had an associated WaniKani level. I had no idea what that was, but the link took me here. I already knew kanji was a weak point for me, and the the site proved a perfect fit for resolving that.

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I came across Tofuguā€™s Podcast while searching for Japanese Podcasts to listen to on my commute to work. After listening to several Tofugu podcast episodes, I fell in love with Koichi and Michaelā€™s humor. Each podcast episode has a ridiculous advertisement for WaniKani which is just as entertaining as their japanese facts and humor, so I ended up researching WaniKani and liked what I saw.

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I came from Tofugu. Their guides to learning hiragana/katakana worked really well for me, so I figured Iā€™d try their guide to Kanji as well (which is WaniKani).

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I was told about WaniKani by a classmate when I was taking Japanese that it was a good way to learn Kanji a few years ago. (I started it right away but fell off not long after, and only last October seriously started up again)

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There seem to be 1-3 new people saying hi in the forums or asking a question every week or two, so presumably thereā€™s also others who join but donā€™t post, so whatever that works out to be, maybe.

I was diddling around on the internet looking for resources when I first started learning and I landed on WK.

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I have no idea how I found WaniKani. I canā€™t remember that far backā€¦

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Letā€™s make the poll. Where did you hear first about wanikani that made you try it out?

  • Youtube
  • Jisho.org
  • Reddit
  • Discord
  • Web search
  • Social Media
  • Friend recommendation

0 voters

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I just googled ā€˜learning kanjiā€™ and wanikani was one of the top results. After reading the faq and trying level 1, I understood how it worked and was convinced. Looking through the forums and people being civil in the 24+th topic on wanikani being slow certainly did help convince me as well.

WK is also relatively safe to recommend. It doesnā€™t rely on market diminishing features, like (obscene) anime graphics or other childish features, while still being graphic enough to be easily understandable. Iā€™ve recommended it to a few business relations interested in (long term learning of) Japanese as well, who were quite enthusiastic, although I donā€™t know if they actually joined or not.

Apart from an introduction, I didnā€™t really dare say anything in the forums until level 8 or something. People might not be interested in the forums, or lack the confidence.

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This is funny, because Iā€™ve genuinely been trying to remember how I found wanikani sincr like, a few weeks after I started. I canā€™t remember at all.
I suspect sorcery.

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I was chosen by Crabigator

actually I found a blog post by a former wanikani member

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I think this was the same situation for me as well.

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Duolingo forums. Duolingo has its fair share of flaws, and kanji weakness is one of them. Someone recommended a bunch of sites and apps, and I tried a few of them, but Wanikaniā€™s use of mnemonics made it the only one I stuck with. Never wouldā€™ve found it without that forum recommendation, even though I think Iā€™ve been to Tofugu before.

This is only my second forum post because like 90% of WK forum threads go soaring over my head.

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