Hello i am having a problem finishing the vocabulary. I have more than 600 vocabulary i did not study yet and i can only study 5 new per day, Any advice on how to be able to study more.
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Why canât you study more than 5? Too many reviews? Technical issue?
Also, 600 vocabulary in queue? You should stop doing radical / kanji lessons until this drops down.
If you can only do five lessons total, try the âadvanced lessonsâ instead of the regular lessons and keep interleaving off, so it will burn through only vocabulary from previous levels first.
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i cannot remember more than 5 per day. if i increase i keep forgetting all of them
i cannot remember more than 5. my brain stops working.
Do you have the problem with kanji? vocabulary? Or both?
I would say that doing just kanji and radicals is a bad strategy because you are missing all the additional hints you could get with vocabulary. Doing reviews for vocab provides additional encounters with kanji in between kanji reviews. I noticed that I personally have way more problems with kanji that is used in smaller number of vocab, which is completely logical.
Do you do anything else for your Japanese studies other than Wanikani? Level 28 is pretty high, you could stop Wanikani for a while and study grammar, read native material (check out the Book Clubs here), many other options, I donât think you need to learn more kanji / words until you use them (but it would be easier to give you better advice if you share more about how you study, which resources, how much time a day you have, what are your goals, etc)
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Now I only study using wanikani. I used to study japanese grammar using mina nihon go with a japanese teacher but i stopped. I was very weak in kanji and the only thing that worked for me is wanikani so i am not willing to stop it until i finish. I am glad that something worked for me.
Also wanikani is actually expensive for me and i cannot stop and pay again.
I think i can learn grammar later but now i want to learn as much kanji as i can. My problem is that i cannot learn enough words parallel to the kanji.
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You are correct.
OK, thanks for the extra information. I would strongly suggest to stop paying for Wanikani now and invest your time and money in other resources, kanji alone wonât enable you to understand Japanese, and the more time you wait to use the kanji you already know, the more you will forget them. It will be way easier to learn words when you see them being used.
At level 28 you know 100% of kanji of JLPT N5 and N4. I really see no point learning kanji N3, N2, N1, and forgetting N5 and N4, before you have a good grasp of grammar of N5, N4, not to mention all the words that are common usage that donât have kanji in them.
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thank you very much
A thing I want to understand, is why WaniKani worked. Was it mnemonics? Or perhaps radical > Kanji > vocab system?
What have you tried for studying vocabularies? Or only vocabularies in Minna no Nihongo so far?
tbh, if you remember majority of Kanji up to Level 28, learning vocabularies outside WaniKani would be easier too. (But there may be shortage of mnemonics outside WaniKani.)
A trick to add more vocabularies per day to an SRS, is to treat vocabularies as not perfectly new â you are trying to re-learn most of those in details, and you have already known something.
Vocabularies in WaniKani may be harder than outside, level-appropriate stuff.
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I only add 10 a day and even then on a fairly irregular basis. It adds up⌠And the time passes anyway
Consider to start by learning vocabulary on a lesson-based approach.
Minna No Nihongo is an excellent resource if your objective is simple communication.
After level 25 or so, with a solid ground in grammar and language structure, thats a good moment to start learning kanji and focus on reading.
Just my 2 cents
(I already studied MNN like 20 years ago and it was a winning strategy to talk with natives in my first trip to japan, even in rural areas 
).
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I think wanikani kanji order is much better than the other kanji resources. Another thing is the userscripts. The usescripts were made by volunteers and they are amazing. I downloaded a very useful userscript. when i make mistake in the review it shows me the kanji i wrote and comparing both kanjis i was able to find the difference for example 嚸 čž
For vocabulary: I used mina nihon go and i tried several mobile apps.
I think if there are images in the wanikani vocabulary it would be better.
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Yes they will add in the end.
that is amazing