i have reached level 17 in wanikani at a good speed but now i am getting stuck. im realizing in my immersion how much it as helped my general understanding of kanji and i really want to continue with this method. however i have gotten stuck at this current level/the previous as i cant remember the previous kanji/radicals well enough. im unsure how to review those older ones as i keep getting to high of a review count each day (even with barely studying any new material) and therefore feel like i cant catch up anymore and get stuff really ingrained and memorized well.
what would be a good method to go about this problem? are there anki decks to study with, to review older materials better/more often?
Here you go with the stats, not sure if that is really bad or not haha. i was keeping up super well up until level 15 maybe, i got more busy and that was probably to blame as i was leveling up very well before. basically i am stuck with 200+ reviews each day because i cant recall kanji and vocabulary well enough and dont have the extra time to study new ones, so as you can see i have been stuck at this level for such a long time now - its quite disheartening to see. no, so far i havent tried handwriting it, i thought i could grind it through. but even with handwriting it, im not sure i could catch up on the older ones, that keep tripping me up.
I donât feel qualified to give advice due to my low level⌠but I found myself in a slightly similar situation about a month ago. Iâd started the free trial in January, went on vacation in February, and stopped doing my daily studying and didnât start back up until July (Iâve had a very busy year). When I restarted I had a few hundred âlearnedâ items I could not remember. Instead of resetting I did the following:
Stop learning new items until I felt caught up
Used jisho.org to find examples of common words to help remember readings
Bonus step, try finding an example of the word being used in an anime youâre very familiar with and take a screenshot
Made personalized mnemonics that were easier for me to remember
A silly example. I have a large plushie that I named Mochi. I couldnât remember the kunâyomi reading used in ç¨ăă so I pictured Mochiutilizing an elephantâs trunk as a slide
If youâre having trouble coming up with your own and youâre an adult/donât study in front of children, https://www.kanjidamage.com/ has many that you can borrowâŚ
If youâd prefer, there are many free Anki decks you can use if you want extra study, some even use the same readings as WK. Making your own using some of the steps above might help reinforce the meanings/readings/etc better.
Dude thatâs a really high accuracy rate. Maybe you just need to pause on the new lessons until your reviews get down to a more manageable volume. Personally I like to keep them below 100 per day. Donât stress about the pace so much and give your brain time to integrate the new information.
I agree that thatâs a really high accuracy, (mine is at 88%) how many lessons do you do a day? And how many apprentice items do you have? Generally the amount of reviews you get daily is roughly the same as how many apprentice items you have (plus or minus like ~10-20).
With accuracy that high you might want to pause lessons for a while to let the number of your apprentice items go down, it should only take a week or so (depending on how much you have). I generally like to aim to have my apprentice items be less than 100.
To answer your question, you can use userscripts to do self study, stuff like this.
However, you just might be doing too many lessons daily and too little reviews, doing 10-15 lessons a day with reviews twice a day (zero the reviews out both times) should keep the apprentice level at a manageable number.
Yeah, this doesnât look like âtoo many reviews because accuracy is too lowâ, it seems more like âtoo many reviews because you must be putting new items in the hopper at a very high rate if you are averaging 8 days a levelâ. Thatâs quite close to the speedrun âas fast as possibleâ rate, which is a recipe for really high workloads (which start to hit as the older items come back for their enlightened and burned reviews).
At around your level I also felt not confident in my retention and so I started to train on reading sentences using the vocab and kanji. It was painful but really useful to consolidate. Slow down and widen you training would be my advice. Have you started grammar and other things ? Tried reading ?
To no more than 5 a day. On days where I have more time I might do a few more. With this my review count also stays on a low amount. Itâs much less of a strain now on my daily life.
