i really like using Kamesame. I’ll just do it throughout the day on my phone, which helps me get better at the flick input method.
I go at my own pace with WK - doing around 10 new items a day and the reviews whenever they come up or when I get a chance to. I always try to clear all my reviews before I go to bed every day.
I’ve also started doing BunPro, which to me is very difficult, but extremely important. I don’t do too many new items per day. I like to try to understand the grammar I’ve learned a bit better before doing any new ones. I’ll get overwhelmed otherwise.
All this is quite time consuming already, and I’m going slowly(I’m now on a lifetime membership)! I can’t imagine trying to burn through it as fast as possible.
Good luck with your studies and I hope to see you back someday!
I’m using kamesame and loving it, just wish it would load faster.
Used kaniwani as well for hiragana, and kamesame for kanji. I think kamesame can replace kaniwani if it also accepts hiragana input (so kanji + hiragana). it would be perfect so I don’t have to use both.
Has this changed? I swear I remember reading somewhere that if you’d been subscribed for years and had paid more than lifetime, then you just had to email the WK team and they’d give you lifetime for free.
I’d like lifetime, but just can’t justify it with the 50% textfugu discount on yearly (though at the rate I’m going I might need a few more years to hit 60 so lifetime might actually be cheaper haha).
You confuse it with textfugu where you could mail them when your monthly payments eqaual the cost of lifetime. Wanikani only offered prorated for all payment when they did the first temporary sale of lifetime
Ideally to learn Japanese you would be living in Japan and working in a Japanese-speaking environment (so having the opportunity and/or need to use Japanese everyday), be taking classes yet also have lots of free time to study on your own. I suspect for most of us we are a long way from that ideal - certainly I am. My next visit to Japan won’t be until 2020 at the earliest so on average I only get a hour of speaking practice per week. I work full time and have a wife, daughter and dog to look after too so I don’t have that much free time and when I do, I am often tired so finding energy and motivation to study is sometimes difficult. Partly explains why I watch too much anime (kidding myself that it is a learning experience rather than just a bit of fun!) At least WK keeps me going with learning Kanji and vocabulary, even if I should spend more time on grammar. It really helps that you can break up the reviews and lessons into little chunks - something that is more difficult with other parts of learning.
Personally I am trying to get through WK fairly quickly. I then plan to do Kaniwani or similar to reinforce my understanding.
I think the key is to keep going - as long as you keep studying then hopefully whatever route you take you will reach a reasonable level of competence at some point.
For each ‘consonant’ you either press the key or flick for it’s alternate vowels.
Example:
for か you just press the か button, but for き you would press か then flick left. Flick up for く, right for け, and down for こ.
