I’ve been at it hard for a week and have just reached level 2(I think). If I work on this a few hours a day could I possibly get to level 60 in 60 weeks? or does it get much harder to learn new kanji after a while? I guess what i’m mainly asking is what are the ranges that people have gotten to diff…

Personally, when I started doing wanikani, I leveled up in around 7-9 days for levels 1-26, but as my enlightened and master items came back, it got significantly harder to level up this fast. I’m a full time student, and at level 42, I definitely cannot level up in 7 days consistently anymore. May…

Theoretically, it’s possible. Some people have even made it to level 60 in less than a year (52 weeks). Practically, it depends on how much time you have every day. If you do 7-day levels constantly, at some point you will get hundreds of reviews every day (especially after about 6 months because t…

Possible? Absolutely! Sustainable? Probably not… I make a lot of dumb mistakes that cause me to take longer than 7 days for a level, but I find that when I make a mistake once, it makes me pay attention and remember the right answer. In that way, I’m happy going at the pace I’m going because a lot o…

After let’s say level 20 I feel that it actually gets easier to learn new kanji because you can just do your routine. You only have to watch out for the many similar kanji that come up. A few hours per day are definitely enough, it helps to have a bit of time several times per day instead of a big …

I was going at the speed of about 7-8 days per level, but then around level 20 the number of reviews everyday started to get to a point where it was too much to handle. Miss a day and I was screwed. Eventually got to the point where I avoided it for a week, and had 700 reviews, and then it got worse…

I think you should also take into account that probably the 2nd half of kanji on WK doesn’t give as many benefits as the first half. If you don’t cover basic grammar and keep a routine where you little by little get more and more vocab and start dipping your toes into using japanese progressively, …

Have you read my guide to WK? I feel like you’re too early in the journey, and you’re missing context from all that you’ll have to go through on WK. I don’t mean that you can’t do WK with 1 level every 7 days. With a couple of hours you definitely can. I mean knowing how WK reflects on your general …

As with anything that relates to language acquisition, quality over quantity. In the end it doesn’t matter how fast you go if what you are learning isn’t sticking. Find a good middle ground and routine that suits best for the amount of time you have available and try to stick to it. Otherwise you r…

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Okay point taking, maybe a bad choice of words there :sweat_smile:. But that post is in the context of how they built WK to not learn every kanji detail at once, but instead use SRS and vocab to do that for you. Not what i was trying to convey with that statement. I was more referring to how you sh…

Yeah, I don’t disagree with your post from before. Just continuing to throw stuff at the wall while nothing sticks isn’t a good approach. That particular quote triggered my trap-card though :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Is one level a week (7days) sustainable?

WaniKani

tip May 21, 2019, 2:29pm 14

Someone did it recently and posted this. Note how much work it took to do it as well as the lack of focus on other aspects. The person also started with some kanji knowledge.

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Is one level a week (7days) sustainable?

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