it will boost confidence and allow the user to continue studying. In my opinion, some people, like me tend to stop using wanikani whenever we feel like our efforts in studying gives us that wall of difficult kanjis or vocabs that we haven’t encountered yet. Most of the time when I’m reading through the context sentences and multiple vocabs and kanji are present that I haven’t learned yet it makes me lose my confidence in what I learned and since I don’t know what the word means, I have to search for it. Yes, I’ll be able to understand it but since those words are not my focus, I would just forget about it and because of that, what I’m currently trying to study will not be inserted in my memory or will have a hard time remembering it because I was halted by the words i looked up. I know it will take a long time but I wish the devs can integrate the use of already learned stuff than making us look it up.
I agree that it would be helpful minimizing the unknown as much as possible for something like this so you can focus on the new material better- though I don’t really see how it could be tangibly implemented as a feature here given;
- Vocab on WK isn’t required for level ups, so determining a firm pool of words to draw from (especially for something as textured as sentence synthesizing) is virtually impossible as someone could still have major gaps of knowledge
- WK is not all-encompassing for vocabulary and only using the words they have on this site in particular would make forming sentences extremely difficult and with a very limited pool of topics, and even sever off entire fundamental pillars of the language like Kana-only words, onomatopoeia, or idioms
- The issue of grammatical knowledge (and cultural context) would still not be addressed, something not taught here at all, so it would be a massive undertaking of work to functionally puzzle-solve this idea- yet leave the user with the expectation that they’re very likely still not intended to fully grasp all the content or nuances anyways
I also have a feeling that the WK team (and likely many of the users here) would want to get you prepared to have having lapses in comprehension and having to manually search often because that is unavoidably a massive, massive part of the practical learning experience- daunting/annoying as it may be
Not to say there’s not room for improvement (for example: especially in later levels there have been context sentences that don’t use any of the listed definitions, something I find silly and weirdly counterintuitive) but I think the logistics of this idea are unfortunately a little past the realm of reality
i think it’s also helpful to consider the perspective of your future self reviewing a card and coming across a context sentence which now suddenly has words you do know!
i think a better solution would be to make the kanjis or new words in context sentences to have a mouse hover effect where it has the reading and definition.
Have you tried the Yomitan browser plug-in? Will give you this functionality, not just for WK context sentences, but for anything in your browser.
Or specific to WK context sentences, the user script Advanced Context Sentences 2 will add similar functionality, but restricted to just the vocab present in WK.
this is great thanks .. but i wish for what I originally suggested. I mean it boosts the confidence and motivation if you could understand the whole context without looking at the meaning and reading .. but this helps
I see what you’re saying but I also think it’s not really the intent of the context sentences. It’s just to show potential nuance behind the vocabulary word and different ways it can be used and to help disambiguate the meanings. I never even bother to try to read the actual Japanese. I read the sentences on Bunpro because they are graded by difficulty and WaniKani has made them very easy for me to read (at the level I’m at, which is just N4).