I was just asked for the vocab reading for "火", and I entered "か" when it was looking for "ひ". Is there a way to get it to say "I'm looking for the Kun'yomi reading instead" instead of just marking my answer wrong?

I understand the sentiment behind your message, but I don’t think it’s a helpful reply either for the OP or for WK. The Feedback forum is not just a casual hangout for community members, it’s literally the official forum for handling feedback to WK.

Personally, if I feel the ‘Bye Bye’ feeling when reading posts in this Feedback forum, I would simply not respond, rather than respond with something dismissive. In a different, more casual forum, maybe it’s a different story. My two cents.

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I see both sides. OP themselves acknowledged and apologised that they were overly aggressive and angry in tone in their original post over something that is fundamentally a feature of WK and not a “bug” so to speak.

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@ajshell1: I don’t think you need to apologize for showing your frustration in this Feedback forum, IMHO. (If we can’t show our frustrations here, then where else can we?) On the other hand, I’m not discounting your apology either. I sympathize. :blush:

On a slightly more serious note, speaking as someone who has gone through serious ‘burn out’ over the years, may I suggest that maybe this is a habit that would be worth trying to change/modify.

In some cases, we as humans can learn habits that ‘work for us’ ‘good enough’ for our situation at the time, but which can become unhealthy or otherwise problematic later on as our situations change. For example, up until university, I was able to get by quite well in school by cramming for tests/quizzes/etc. and eventually started to pull all-nighters to cram as subjects got more and more complex. It even worked through most of university. But when I entered the workforce, the situation was significantly different, and ‘cramming’ and ‘all-nighters’ were no longer an option. But since that was the only way I knew ‘how to get stuff done’, I ended up making things very stressful for myself – leading directly to the whole ‘burn out’ thing I mentioned earlier. In recovery from burn-out, I’ve learned (and I’m still learning) new ways of ‘how to get stuff done’ that allow me to pace things out more. In retrospect, I would have been much better off if I had started learning alternatives to cramming much earlier.

So, I’m suggesting that if ‘getting irrationally angry’ seems to be one of your most effective learning strategies, it’s probably not really a sustainable strategy in the long run. It’s not really healthy to be irrationally angry much of the time, just as it wasn’t healthy for me to be in panic/crisis mode (anxiety-driven) all the time.

I’m actually using WaniKani in a secondary way to practice learning in a slow, steady, incremental, not-panicking, not-a-crisis mode, and I’m finding it very helpful for my sanity actually. Since Japanese is something I’m just learning for my own sake, not for any job or for school, there’s no deadline pressure, so I’m able to use it that way, almost like a ‘therapy’ of sorts. :sweat_smile:

If you’re in a similar situation, where Japanese is not crucial for your job or school, maybe you could try using WK in a similar way, to practice learning without invoking your ‘irrationally angry’ mode. Just an idea, just thought I’d share my own experience. Cheers! :blush:

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歳 is also still widely in use, instead of 才!WK will teach it in the higher levels.

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I’m in the same boat – it’s not a life or death situation if it takes you years rather than months, and another thing to keep in mind is that Wanikani only teaches kanji and vocab – you still need to do the heavy lifting and master the grammar. It’s better for your sanity to come up with a plan and tools for how to overcome any obstacles rather than blaming the tools that already exist.

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There are also APIs that prompt you with on-yomi and kun-yomi so you know which is which (List of API and Third-Party Apps)

If you’ve got a complaint, there’s sure to be a userscript that will fix it.

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I didn’t see this kanji yet. Oh it going to be fun ^-^

It’s on level 59. Chop-chop! :stuck_out_tongue:

Ok i am going to see it next year then :slight_smile:

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