So I guess I am joining the club of 60-levelers and thought I’d share a bit of my journey to celebrate 
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I started Wanikani in January 2023, I already knew a few hundred kanjis (I had JLPT N4 back then and had been studying kanji in a book called “Kanji Kakitai”), but I knew the more kanji you try to learn the more confusing it gets and that there’s a looot of kanji out there… and I was seduced by the SRS method that I felt would help me remember better, to learn new kanji but also potentially re-learn some of the kanji I had already studied and somewhat forgotten. I also wanted to learn to read fairly quickly, because I felt that kanji was a barrier to learning the language easily - if I can read, then I can read books, or subtitles, and even go through textbooks more easily, and so learning the language itself becomes much less of a struggle.
Going through the first few levels was a breeze because I knew most of it, but quickly there were more and more new kanji and it became more challenging, but I loved (almost) the whole process. I’ve had lots of fun reading the mnemonics and getting familiar with the different characters (though I’m sorry, Jourm will always be Jourm to me, he sounds more fun than Joe), and sharing them with my Japanese boyfriend - who I must say is pretty good now at describing a kanji to me using Wanikani radicals, even though they may differ from the “real” radical name.
That same boyfriend (now husband) was quite impressed at the beginning when I was able to read things he would have expected to be difficult for me. He’s much more difficult to impress now, as he got used to me knowing a lot with Wanikani, and if I read something that I consider difficult and show him my proud face he’s just like “yes, I know you can read” 
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I don’t think I’ve been fast or slow, maybe medium, but I do feel like I spent a lot of time everyday on Wanikani. Towards the last 10 levels I implemented “Wanikani 散歩” because I felt if I had to spend hours a day on Wanikani I might as well walk at the same time rather than be sitting in my room 
All in all Wanikani has been my daily routine and even though kanji (and Wanikani) is a bit of a love & hate relationship (as in, I love it, but sometimes it can be really frustrating), I am kind of wondering what I will do once my reviews start to decrease. I waited to guru all the level 60 kanji and learn all the vocabulary to write this post (my last vocabulary lesson was, I’m not kidding, 漸く, “Finally”), so I am not expecting to do new lessons now (though I know now and then new lessons will be added 
). And so unless I really fail my burn waves I’m hoping to gradually spend less time on Wanikani. I’ve always dreamed of this moment because Wanikani took too much time and I needed time to read more native content for one thing, but it does feel weird to think I’m really getting there!! But that’s okay, I still have tons of reviews 
Here goes the traditional dashboard screenshots:
The 52 days in level 35 are around the time I took JLPT N3 - I think I leveled up to 35 and then stopped adding in new lessons and just learned the few missing N3 kanji separately; then after the exam I must have cooled down for some time, and then of course it takes forever to catch up!
56 days in level 39 - I had a lot going on in my life and did my best to do reviews everyday but could never do the whole pile, so it cumulated, and then took time to get back to a normal level and add new lessons in. Same thing happened at levels 53 and 58.
29 days in level 51 was because 51 is when you get 100% N2 Kanji, and I took JLPT N2 that same month so same as for N3, I stopped learning new lessons until the exam was behind me (and yes, I passed, and reading went really well!).
Anyway, I’m really grateful for Wanikani, I really think it boosted my kanji learning and it would have been difficult to get to that level that quick, or at all, without it. Also very grateful for this community - I haven’t been very active, but I did spend time reading some of the topics instead of doing reviews, and enjoyed the memes a lot! It helps feel less lonely when Wanikani gets frustrating 
Wanikani even taught me some English as it is not my native language (hello, “poaching”) - and I must say towards the last levels it felt kind of rewarding to be learning words in Japanese that I don’t even know in English 
(let’s be honest though, my English is still much stronger than my Japanese).
Enough with my boring journey, if you read to the end thank you 
time to go fly with my own wings and hopefully read and speak and listen more!! (but also do reviews, I haven’t burned it all yet 
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well done
On Wanikani, the JLPT, marriage, everything!
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