Is it weird how excited and nervous I am to have become a lifer?

[techneko]

@MaddietheMuffin

@techneko

ワニカニを勉強して

Since you’re doing it everyday , I think it’s more natural to say 勉強していて here. Also, using を sounds like you’re studying Wanikani itself, not using it for studying (you’d use で for that)

@techneko

みんなの日本語を勉強します。

Same thing as above, but honestly I’m not 100% sure because to me “studying the textbook” makes sense, although it has a bit of a different nuance in my opinion. I would just use で instead of を to be safe, but again that’s just me.

(My Japanese isn’t perfect either so there’s a chance my corrections might be wrong(笑) if you see a mistake feel free to lmk)

Thank you for all of the pointers! Definitely got a ways to go, but that will help out! I was doing my Jalup cards today and hit the Te form + います pattern and was like, “Dang… I could’ve used this a couple days ago”. I do get your point about で though, as I am studying Japanese at the WaniKani site. Never thought about it that way but I do see the logic.

@Dresseswithpockets

Thank you for the warm welcome, ギャビンさん! Good for you for picking up your studies again – hopefully what you learned back in school will come back to you as you go through the levels! Thank you for the great tips and for the link to the Guide. I will read through it! I’ve downloaded a few scripts, but it was a bit overwhelming which ones to use so I’ll have to look at them again. Do you have any favourites or recommendations?

I highly recommend visiting Japan if and when you get the chance to. I love love love it there and can’t wait to go back again!

And yes, I’ve never met a girl who isn’t thrilled to discover that the dress she’s wearing has pockets!

@Dresseswithpockets
As for script recommendations, the ones that have been the most helpful in a functional sense are:

Wanikani Heatmap - Adds a really attractive looking heatmap that displays your review/lesson history as well as all of your upcoming reviews. I find this one a motivation booster, and it’s also good to see those burn reviews slowly approaching.

Wanikani Lesson Filter - This script lets you do lessons out of order (Don’t skip the Vocab!) but it can be a good tool if used properly. This is my general setup with it:

Lesson Schedule

@techneko

I 2nd the lessons filter script! I typically do 25 lessons a day, so here’s how I manage that backlog:

Day 1 of level up: Do all radicals, and use remainder of the 25 lessons on last level Vocab. You now have 3 days until the locked kanji open up, so I take the amount of kanji I have access to and divide that by 3.

Day 2/3/4: 1/3rd of remaining Kanji per day (calculated above) and all remaining lessons go to last level vocab. You should clear out almost, if not all, of the last level vocab in this step, so you’ve got a clean slate.

Day 5/6/7: At this point, you’ll be unlocking current level vocab. I’ll typically do all of the kanji that unlocked on Day 5, just to maximize that level up speed, and then you have the remainder reviews plus the next two days to knock out any vocab that pops up.

Day 8/9/10: Depending on how you spread things out and if you got kanji reviews wrong… You LEVEL UP and repeat it all over agian.

I know that my lesson count is slightly higher than normal, but I usually have days in the 5/6/7 area that have 0 reviews, or 20 or less, so it should still work with a lower lesson count. Pretty good flow in my opinion, but do what works best for you.

Self-Study Quiz - Lets you study and quiz yourself on items, without affecting the SRS intervals. Main thing I use it for is reviewing Leeches. (You need to install the additional filters script also on the page to get leech training.)

ConfusionGuesser - When you get a review wrong, it will try and guess what WK items you confused the review with and display them on the screen. Very useful with similar words, or ones with weird On/Kun combinations.

Progress Percentages - Another motivation booster. Shows info similar to wkstats, but shows it on your dashboard! (Shows % of Kanji learned sorted by JLPT Level, Grade Level, Frequency, and then sites like NHK, Twitter, etc.)

And finally, Double-Check - Basically, if you get a review wrong, you can hit the undo button and try again. Great for typos, but not so great when you are close and go “Oh, I definitely knew that”. Except you didn’t. Use with caution! (It is really great for those typos though.)

There are plenty of other scripts like the Leaderboard script (Check out this thread. Leaderboard/motivation group) and others that do random things. Jitai’s Font randomizer, 100% Review Fanfare, Pitch Accent indicators, Dashboard Progress+, Dashboard Cockpit… Just have a look at the Master List and see what looks appealing.