So i have started wanikani in April last year and its been an enjoyable journey so far but in the latter part (level 30) i had cheated a-lot and it came back to me while reading overlord i knew the kanji i knew i had learned it before but couldn’t remember it and its so frustrating, my main point is should i reset or not.
(And to anyone reading this please don’t cheat you will just hinder your progress)
I would never reset for something like this. Just keep doing rewiews, it will fix itself eventually with SRS. Take less new lessons until the apprentice stage goes down to managable numbers.
While you could probably reset to the point you’ve started cheating yourself, it’s probably more about what you want to do with that time.
If the only frustration reading is not remembering a kanji, you have enough knowledge to look it up, and you would probably encounter it several times while reading so that should cement it eventually.
It’s more of deciding where you want to put your time in, reading more, or combining it with doing srs. You’re going to encounter kanji you didn’t learn on Wanikani anyway, so if you don’t use anything besides reading to memorize them, I don’t see the point in reseting, if you do then reseting make sense.
Well you certainly CAN reset if you want to be comprehensive about it, but I think there’s a difference if you just forgot them or if you never learned them at all, and how many. For “forgot”, you’re going to start remembering them after an encounter or two and a whole 6-month SRS process for each item is going to be way overkill and boring.
If you literally cannot decipher what you’re trying to read, like any of it, it’s probably more than a +1 difficulty text for you and you should try something easier. If you have to look some up as you’re reading, that’s going to be a better study method than WaniKani anyway.
yeah but the problem is at this point i have 5900 burned item that’s why I’m tempted to reset, but ctmf and 2tea points are quite convincing even if i cheated (not all of them at least) i can read quite comfortable but look for N4 kanji for some reason so with some practice i should be fine maybe idk.
Thank you for the response mate <3
I wouldn’t reset. I reset from 60 to 30 myself because I thought I didn’t remember a lot of items from higher levels. But I just stopped wk and never came back.
If you want to keep doing reviews, just do that. No cheating this time. And since you’re pretty much done now, instead of lessons I suggest reviving burned items that you recently had to look up while reading.
looking back into it the reading wasn’t that bad but looking for N4 N3 kanji frustrated me for some reason other than that the LN was amazing and i learned some kanji from it before wanikani like (闇)Darkness (輝) Radiance…
Japanese LN really likes to grandifie a scene (i think i made that word) its really cool to me how they describe a scene with grand words.
thank you for the replay <3
i will continue reading and re-learn from that.
Thank you for your time <3
I’ve reset a bunch of times. I reset to 34 last year. It will be a lot gentler ride, even if you don’t “remember” it’s easier to relearn things you already learned once.
But you could also just read novels and learn the kanji when you encounter them naturally.
That’s a lack of exposure problem, use it or lose it and srs won’t really solve it. The more you’ll read in context the better. Wanikani shows you items in isolation, it’s good for introduction but srs without actual use is almost useless.
You could unburn just those items you’re struggling with (as you’re encountering them), rather than resetting X full levels…
I’m so excited to read re zero overlord and 86 also, any recommendation ?
Just unburn the items you didn’t remember. I’ve forgotten some of the early items and even some more recent burns when the meaning was a bit more difficult to grasp.
i will try unburn some items while reading novels.
Thank you <3
sounds good.
thank you <3
I think if i did reset i will give up wanikani like you tbh, i will just continue reading and re learning from that.
thank you for your time <3
Harry Potter has been really good as my first book because i already know what happen so I can go back and forth between listening to it passively and dissecting it for new vocab, based on my energy level.
After this (Meaning all 7) I’m trying 1Q84, because it has a similar level to later Harry Potter books. That will be my first blind read project.
I also want to read: 家庭用安心坑夫 It’s level N1-ish, but I want to read because it looks like a fun way to practice abstract comprehension.
And かがみの孤城 interested me. N2 level. That would be for fun lol. I picked up a retelling of Disney’s Little Mermaid called パート オブ ユア ワールド, and that’d also be a “let me just have fun” read.
I’m reading anything that keeps me reading as non stop as possible leading up to JLPT in Dec.
Personally, I would not worry about not remembering kanji that’s already been learned from time to time. Consuming content works as a natural SRS, when you see kanji you’ve already learned and can’t remember it and look it up, it’s equivalent to reviewing it on WK. Just keep enjoying native content, and you’ll get better and better. The most useful kanji that you’ve learned will naturally show itself the most so you can cement it in your memory. Something I’ve started to do recently is add 2-3 new vocab words to my SRS outside WK after I burn an item (using jpdb.io).
Or on the other hand if you do have or want some other SRS system to help with all the words you encounter that aren’t in WK, then you can use the “I should have known that” moments as a trigger to toss those words into that other SRS. Eventually that will be the one with all the words you care about and don’t know yet, and you won’t need to use WK any more.
(I’ve done both “read and don’t bother to take any special efforts to SRS or otherwise practice vocab you encounter” and also “read and SRS vocab you find that way” at different times in the past. They both work, in the the sense that you’ll get better at reading either way, and so I think it comes down to how you feel personally about sitting down and doing reviews every day…)
At this point, there is even an option of using Anki, adding vocabularies from Yomichan. Probably reading card separated from meaning card like in WaniKani. Reading cards might also have typing box. Well, the reason is, WaniKani is missing many of the Kanji readings, not to mention having Kanji altogether, and meaning cards might just need Anki mode.
About biting into WaniKani review pile, it might be done by alternating SRS level descending or not. Descending when you want to prioritizing clearing the pile, and ascending or random when you want to take it easy, not too hard mode. Self study script may be helpful. No need to always wait for the fate via SRS only.
I am not against resetting altogether, but what do you expect of lower level items? Also, you might long not require WaniKani’s methods – vocabularies limited by having to learn every Kanji and radicals first, mnemonics might be misleading or just not helping with the readings, radical decomposition not optimal and not linked to composed Kanji, etc.