Just one for St. Patrick’s please

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Hi,
and happy St. Patrick’s Day for everyone celebrating all things 緑 today.

One of the most common language exercises in actual classes is a routine where two questions are asked from everyone attending. For example, “What is your name?” and “Where do you live?”.

Now, imagine those questions being asked separately so that the second question is asked only after everyone in the class has answered the first one. Makes no sense, right?

On WaniKani, all kanji and vocabulary items are being answered separately twice: in Japanese and in English. So why not combine them?

Here’s how it could look. Let’s imagine the review for 緑 (level 13 kanji) in honor of the good saint. In the answer section, there would be two text boxes: one for English and one for Japanese answer. There would be green (sic) tick mark beside the text field only after the correct answer has been written. This would mean no more wrong answers and unnecessary review backlog, because students would themselves identify the issues and mistakes before they even occur.

And there you have it. An effective and fun Japanese learning platform that feels great even without a pint of Guinness.

best,
Jari

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I’m intrigued, but am having trouble following you here. Could you give another example? :thinking:

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The wk team said a lot of times already that Japanese and English answers are separated by time, because this gives you two opportunities to recall the item, which is especially helpful at the lower levels.

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You suggest this like it never crossed their minds to have the reviews come together. Like the randomised collection of meaning and reading reviews is a bug they’ve never managed to squash.

Might I suggest you come up with your, uh… amazing ideas for how to improve WaniKani before the pint if Guinness rather than afterwards. :stuck_out_tongue:

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They are usually only separated by a few minutes at most, so it probably doesn’t really make a difference.

OP if it bothers, maybe the ankimode script has this functionality, or you can just use the back-to-back one?

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A few others have provided some insight into why the decision was made to not combine them (which seems to be logical and make some sense). If you want it to work that way, there is a user script that includes this option as a feature. WaniKani Reorder script, although I think there is a version 2 of this that is the one that works now. Not sure, as I do not use it.