I recently got to the point where the number of new radicals per level drastically goes down. I’ve always had the easiest time remembering radicals so even back in the earlier levels it felt like a bit of a waste of time to have to wait until they’re all at Guru to continue. Now at this point I’m wondering, isn’t it a huge waste of time to have to spend multiple days remembering like, 5 radicals?
Now that I’m writing this I do realize that this probably helps with pacing and making sure you’re not bombarded with reviews and have time to digest stuff from the last level. The wait also gives me a good opportunity to finish the vocab from the earlier level. But I’m still curious, what do you think? This is obviously just hypothetical as I don’t think it’s possible, but do you think it would be a good idea to be able to move on from radicals quicker?
What’s overkill is to have to continue reviewing radicals after guru because WK radical names are not used in Japanese at all. So why do I have to burn the radical names, it’s only useful to remember when getting new WK kanji so I can combine the radicals for the kanji mnemonic.
I always changed them to the actual kanji name with the user synonyms, since I didn’t find the mnemonics the site comes up with all that helpful to me. Though that did just mean I had to burn the exact same item twice when it comes down to it.
I somewhat understand the way radicals gate off the rest of the level to better help space out the lessons. But at the same time, might as well split that second half into its own level and give more meaningful vocab each level if this is how things are done anyway.
Even if radical names are used in mnemonics, I’d say nothing’s wrong with looking up what radical names refer to.
If radical names are used in personal mnemonics, they have nothing to do with WaniKani’s naming. Say, I do remember finger (not fingers) but it still doesn’t matter whether I remember the default names or a user synonym or not.
