I can't "see" Kanji while listening

Finally got to use the Self-Study Quiz for a full audio quiz session of my Burned Items, Level 10 only. The good news: I got 194 correct, 64 incorrect. I’m happy with that because most of those words I missed are ones I haven’t encountered much since I burned them or the meaning I entered was close enough, just not right. My conclusions:

  • This Audio Quiz should really be a built-in feature of WaniKani, something that is quizzed SRS style along with how it works now. Maybe not at the same time as when you’re learning new words but definitely after you’ve burned them.
  • This is an awesome way of reviewing Burned Items to reinforce the meaning based on audio, especially for the vocabulary I’ve forgotten.
  • All in all, I am happy with this tool and plan to add it to my daily reviews as I put a brake on learning new things on WaniKani and Bunpro and ramp up on more listening and comprehensible input.

@prouleau - after the audio self-study quiz, I wanted to re-quiz the ones I got wrong so I hit the re-quiz button but ended up starting over from the beginning. Is this feature available and did I just miss pressing the wrong thing?

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The re-quiz button should re-quiz just those items you missed. It doesn’t. I have tested too and got the same behavior as you did.

Tagging @rfindley for a bug fix.

Edit: I tested again and every thing works as it should. This bug seems intermittent.

Edit2: I can’t reproduce the problem at all. I am now doubting my first observation was correct.

@snflwi The requiz button always tests both the meaning and reading questions even if you missed only one of the two. Could that be what led you to believe SSQ started over from the beginning?

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This thread inspired me to add “burned items” to the wanikani sentence app I created. Not exactly what’s been asked for (it’s not SRS), but you can review the vocab sentences of your burned items, and listen to the sentences read aloud via TTS from your local device).

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No, the count for the number of items I had to go through went up to 100+ again instead of the 60+ I was expecting. Hmmm if that’s the case though, the number should have been in the 200+ Either way, I was just expecting 60+ items as that’s what the count of missed items said.

Thanks for checking. I will try again later.

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Interesting. Is there audio only mode? I just want to improve my listening… though I also don’t want to keep adding apps and quizzes as it’s one more thing to add to my already large workload.

I can add that… autoplay audio → show japanese → show translation loop. I like that. Of course, the audio isn’t native speech… you think you’d still want to use it like that?

Just to be clear, If the count of missed items is 60 it is normal to have 120 questions in the re-quiz because the meaning and reading questions are counted separately.

なるほど. It re-quizzes both. Just thought the default would be just the missed items. Thanks for the replies.

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If your other users find it useful. Right now, I do not have any more bandwidth. :pensive_face:

@prouleau Sorry to bug you again. This is just FYI. There are some audio that don’t match the actual pronunciation. A couple of times, the male voice pronounced it wrong but the female pronounced it right. The example below, they both said “nemoto” but when I click on the ‘i’ icon, it’s supposed to be “konpon”. I’m not sure where the audio is coming from but just FYI.

The audio files are the Wanikani audio. If they are wrong, they are wrong on the web site.

Some vocabs have more than one pronunciation and SSQ doesn’t keep them sorted out. There is room for improvement.

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I see. On my second re-quiz the correct audio came out. Just now, I also looked at the vocabulary’s page itself and it only had one reading:

Anyway, no biggie. I am still finding the SSQ very useful as I have forgotten so much of my Burned Items already.