I don’t know what to do at this point. I’ve been going pretty slowly (like 3 weeks per level) and even with that, the amount of time I spent a day on reviews meant pretty much all the mental energy I had for learning Japanese was going into WaniKani and not learning grammar/trying to read stuff/what…

Honestly yeah, take a break and focus on fun stuff in Japanese for a while! Work on your grammar, read a book, give your brain some time to absorb stuff. If your only exposure to kanji is WK then it’s hard to recognize kanji in the wild. Just do your reviews every few days or so to avoid a review av…

Feel free to take a break, and do the things you started studying Japanese for. :slight_smile: A lot of us hit a wall at some point or another.

I finished wanikani in 2017, then I basically put down japanese and focused on my career. After my interest rekindled, I realized my immediate retention was abysmal. I didn’t want to reset my original account so I started a new one. Something that stands out to me though, is this time around it onl…

You’ll forget even words that you burned occasionally. It happens to me. With words that I’ve known for over half my life. It doesn’t mean you don’t know them. Everybody brain farts. I know that sounds depressing, but I think it’s reassuring. It means you never have to be perfect. A Japanese-learni…

I made it to level 23 (interestingly close to where you are it seems) and was burning out. I was doing 20 new lessons per day as seemed to be the usual advice here. My accuracy was plummeting, sometimes I’d be at like 70% to sometimes 30%. I felt like I was spending a lot of time, constantly failing…

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I want to say that I echo your sentiment! WK is not necessarily making me hate learning Japanese, but I’m definitely feeling overwhelmed! I feel like it’s giving me more than my brain can handle! But, I’m not going to lose hope!

Same. I find that 10 lessons a day or every other day depending on how I’m feeling is ideal!

Srs is a good method for learning it seems, but it might not be the best for everyone. I still think nothing beats Immersion. Maybe you need context to retain stuff better. The knowledge you have now is a lot more than zero. It will help you when it comes to looking up words in the dictionary for ex…

[image] Andyglue: I still think nothing beats Immersion While true, when first starting out immersion can be even more intimidating than SRS. With SRS it’s at least a drip feed at a consistent rate. When I first tried immersing myself in Japanese, even the NHK Easy News stuff, my first impres…

I think WaniKani is making me hate Japanese

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anon45962687 May 7, 2021, 12:39am 9

Become a snail!

Also, start reading native material if you’re not already doing so. Read it with an English/insert-language-here translation right next to it if you have to. This will help you with items you’ve already burned as well.

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