Hi everyone,
Due to my increased working hours I took a big break of about a year and a half from my Japanese stydying in general, including WaniKani.
Before I stopped studying I was at level 33.
I tried to come back and began with Burned item study where I realised I was at around 50% success rate, so I decided to reset my level.
However, I did not take into consideration that the lessons are gated and I cannot fast track my way back to my original level, while at the same time, up to a certain level I seem to remember almost every item and I should have reset my level to a higher level and not all the way down to level 1.
As it is, I am stuck doing lessons and reviews for items I already know for the following months âŠ
Any advice on how to deal with this and to best get back on track would be helpfull. Would be great if there was an addon to insta-burn items that I already know, or some way to unlock future lessons and fast track through the process.
Unfortunately youâre just going to have to wait it out. You could spend the time on something else, like grammar if you havenât done any yet or reading/listening of you have.
I have recently done this myself (on purpose though). I am treating it as a refresh/revision opportunity. Rather than hurrying to âget backâ, Iâm taking it steadily to go over my foundation and make it stronger.
I see an addon called Lesson Picker. I donât know if it allows for lesson activation from further ahead, but in any case I canât seem to make it work. It is supposed to replace the lessons button, which in my case seems to remain greyed out.
There are no add-ons that can unlock items that are still level-locked, unfortunately.
I reset from 60 to 21 because I want to refresh some things. Iâm disregarding vocab items that I already know, and only adding whatever I donât instantly recognise.
Levelling only requires the radicals and 90% of that levelâs kanji, you can ignore the known vocab so that youâre not bogged down with hundreds of reviews before getting back to the iffy stuff.
You can use scripts like Self Study Quiz to review future levels, only that it wonât count towards SRS.
Item inspector can export to other SRS apps, I think, but even then large review piles and leeches will come back sooner or later. If you like WaniKani somehow, it might be better to be patient (though speed run âwithout skipping vocabulariesâ if you are OK with it).
My advice is to decenter wanikani in the interim. You know the things, so wanikani can be something you spend 15 minutes on every morning while you get 100% accuracy, and then you can move on to other more fun things for the rest of your study time. That will hopefully at least save your sanity.
You could also install the script the counts every answer as correct, to easily spam through the reviews until you hit things youâre shaky on, at which point you could uninstall that script. This wouldnât work if you only know like 99% of the items, though, youâd need to know 100% of the items to avoid this being cheating yourself
