As you can see, I have started Wanikani quite recently but I have been doing my reviews and my new lessons religiously everyday since then. However, for various reasons, I NEED to speed up my pace of learning by a ludicrous amount in order to be fluent enough within a foreseeable delay. While I have little to no trouble with the lessons, my biggest issue is that the amount of new items is capped to 100 every roll, so it bars me a bunch of the content that could be available immediately upon passing a level. As a result, the last days before the passing of the chapter are often famished and with a poor amount of stimulation.
I think that the delay of two days for waiting for the final review would be valuable to start learning stuff that is independent from the Kanji and vocabulary words currently being studied, for instance the radicals from the next chapter. Otherwise, it feels like useless time awkwardly holding you a little further from the final completion.
Anyway, I know that I canāt subvert the system or do much about this, so I was wonderingā¦ Does anyone have additional resource or apps I could focus on during this frustrating delay in order to not feel as if I was stuck in a waiting line? I would probably like to study more grammar, and I donāt think that I have enough vocabulary to start immersion currently unfortunately
Oh right I forgot to tell where I was starting from, sorry ^^
In fact I started learning around 2021 at College, but at a rate of one hour and half per week it was good for an introduction but nearly impossible to make significant progress. I roughly kept this rate ever after, as I still wanted to learn the language but I couldnāt provide enough work on my own to improve significantly my level, mostly because of other business but also because of a little laziness.
However, things turned drastically after I went for a language course in Japan this summer, where I learned a lot of grammar and vocabulary (but little Kanji), and itās only there that someone advised me to start WaniKani. Beyond all of this, my greatest frustration was to have still too little knowledge of the language to hold a casual conversation. When I left, I was so endeared that the wish to go back there for a much longer time immediately rose in me, and my topmost priority was to get the closest I can from a practical level of proficiency in the meantime.
Other than this, I tried the N4 exam about one year ago but I failed it due to my lack of vocabulary
If you want an app for grammar there is Bunpro. It also has a vocab section which has a feature where if you link it to your Wanikani account it will give you furigana for kanji you havenāt learned on Wanikani but will not give you furigana for kanji you havenāt learned here (and also you can set it to skip words youāve learned here).
Iād also suggest some textbooks such as Genki or video guides such as Cure Dolly or Game Gengo instead of just all SRS all the time.
So it was during August so the temperature was hot and the air very moist, which made activities outside rather unpleasant and subsequently, itās usually not the time recommended for tourism. As a consequence, places werenāt too crowded and it was quite easy to make visits.
Regarding my experience, I went for 4 weeks, including 3 weeks of language course, which took about half of the day. As I didnāt travel outside of Tokyo, I practically didnāt struggle with language barriers as most of the signs and the text cues were translated in English. However, when I had to talk with shopkeepers or waiters, I was only able to form simple demands, I babbled a lot and it was quite difficult to get my point across.
Of course, even though I was very active and motivated, I wasnāt able to see many things within such a short time. It was fun, but unfortunately the friends I had there were either busy or away so I didnāt have the chance do do much sightseeing with them. I was mostly all by myself, and even though it would have been much better with friends I enjoyed the trip an absurd lot!
Soā¦ I am sorry if I wasnāt able to summarize my whole experience of this trip. I guess that I was really endeared by the places, the atmosphere, the ubiquitous whimsy, and as I was unable to talk with the locals at that point, I really want to try more with a better preparation regarding this!
The new kanji for the level based on previous radicals
The new vocab for kanji that have already been gurued
Then there is the second wave for the same level:
The new kanji that require radicals learned this level
The new vocab for kanji learned this level
Please note that to progress in levels, you need to get radical and kanji to Guru. Vocab has no bearing to level, so you can organize in a myriad of ways.
For example:
Day 1: All radicals + maybe a few kanji
Day 2: Half the remaining kanji + a mix of vocab
Day 3: The rest of the kanji + a mix of vocab
Day 4: The new kanji from Gurued radicals + a mix of vocab
Day 5 - 7: A mix of the new vocab, such that itās somewhat evenly-ish distributed
Day 8: Level up
This would be a fast way to level up and does not require doing all the lessons as soon as they come up and thus every day can have new lessons.
Iāve personally used the above type of schedule to have new lessons every day even when I decide I want to go fast (sometimes I want to go slow, but sometimes I aim for 8 days and itās perfectly doable).
You can use the lesson picker to make that happen (or an addon. Personally I prefer using Tsurukame or Smouldering Durtles). I would highly recommend getting an app or script to prevent being punished for typos, so that you donāt end up blocked from them.
Otherwise you could also check out MaruMori. Lots of people do both. If you want something that focuses on shadowing and also includes Kanji (you can choose whether you want to focus on listening or reading or a mix of both), NativShark is great for that.
100 daily lessons is already quite a bit. Its far more than your regular human can actually remember. You risk a burnout so severe your brain will fry from overload but if you have it in you to study so much AND do the reviews I dont see why not.
Though I think the reviews will obliterate you. People already get like 400 reviews at 20 lessons a day. So youād do like maybe 2000 reviews a day. And thatās if you get everything right. Anyway, looking forward to your record breaking wani kani speed run. Please ping me in your victory post. I just want to be a bystander in the fame post.
I think that I havenāt reached the cruising rate for reviews this far, and that it will happen when I will have a steady rate of item burning. For now, not enough levels are stacked to make it overwhelming but I guess that the waves of long-time reviews will be quite equivalent regardless the rate of new items. Maybe I will tune the rate when it happens tho. Thank you for the encouragements btw!
