I was greatly surprised to see new additions in the WaniKani system. When I was reviewing my lessons I stumbled upon this mysterious item - リンゴ. Baffled by the unknown characters I’ve never seen before, I did a quick search only to realize that these were katakana characters! I opened up the forums…

That should be then optional for sure

I was taking this seriously at first and I was honestly baffled how someone got 22 levels into WaniKani, learnt all that kanji, and somehow never touched Katakana.

A humbling experience: I was presented with 「あそこ」 in my reviews, and immediately my mind directly went to the concept of a place far away from the speaker and the listener. However, WK helpfully marked me wrong, because of course, 「あそこ」is “over there”. This mistake that’s entirely my fault taught me…

A level 0 to teach kana has been suggested many times and I definitely wouldn’t be against it. It would definitely be useful to many new starters, and people who can already read kana could opt out (if the option is offered) or just burn these items very quickly as there is only so many of those.

Why stop there? WaniKani should be inclusive for everyone. Introduce computer literacy training and the English alphabet into the SRS system, so regardless of your skill level you can enjoy WaniKani.

This is a slippery slope fallacy. Why stop here? Literally because the things you mentioned are not Japanese and have nothing to do with Japanese studies. The mission for wanikani is to help people read Japanese: kanas are part of this, what you mentioned isn’t.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re just making lighthearted jokes or if you genuinely think they’re making a mistake adding kana-only vocab to Wanikani. I do think it’s an okay addition in concept. There’s lot of useful vocabulary that doesn’t use kanji, and what’s wrong with having more useful vocabu…

Kana-character Additions

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Kraits May 20, 2023, 6:13am 2

I know this is a joke for terminally online WaniKani users, but if anyone is looking for kana resources there’s a list in The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List.

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Kana-character Additions

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