I know it’s been said before, but since nothing has been done about it I want to add my voice to the mix.
Wanikani is a platform for learning kanji, and the vocab with kanji in it is useful. Adding in a bunch of very simple kana-only vocab is pointless, annoying and unrelated to the goals of wanikani. It’s just a waste of time.
Yes, I can use the lesson picker to not study these words, but I really don’t like having unfinished items in there. So I just plough through. And it annoys me every time. I wish it didn’t but it does.
Please remove the kana-only vocab, or have an opt-in toggleable switch for the 2% of people that might actually want it.
This is a bit of an odd request. Yes WaniKani is a primarily a tool for learning kanji. But I don’t see how adding a few kana only vocab is so hindering that it would require a toggle switch, or removing them entirely
Especially when you consider that there are only about 34-ish kana only vocab in the levels 1-10, which is only about 3% percent of the total vocab in that level range. (1120 vocab in total)
That and the amount of kana only vocab decreases significantly when you get to the higher levels. For instance level 11-20 only has 7-ish kana only vocab, which is only about 0.55% of the total vocab. (1303 vocab in total)
Numbers is prob off since I counted them one by one, but it should be close enough.
Also maybe those vocab items are a waste of time for you, but since WaniKani is aimed at beginners I doubt that’s true for most people. certainly wasn’t for me anyway. But then again what do I know ?
Rather than an odd request, it is in fact a rather common request that has been brought up several times to no avail. ‘Beginner’ does not necessarily mean absolute beginner. In fact, I would imagine those starting wanikani with no Japanese knowledge at all would be a relatively small percentage of users. Kana-only vocab was added a couple of years ago to a fair bit of outcry.
Even if this were true, what you’re asking to remove about 1.7% of the vocab in the level range of 1-20. aka 41 items out of 2423.
This is already such an insignificant number that I don’t even need to find the percent of kana-only vocab for levels 1-60.
Maybe spend some more time learning Japanese than complain about something that ultimately amounts to a few percentage points of WaniKani at most. I mean apparently according to you the percentage of people who would want this feature (2%) is a higher number than the percentage of kana-only vocab for levels 1-20. (1.7%-ish)
For my part, I don’t mind a few kana words at all. In fact, I appreciate it. The more vocabulary, the better, and a few kana words I don’t see is harmful to anyone.
Well apologies if I was being condescending or rude. I also don’t really care if you value kana-only vocab or not. If you think they are worthless then good for you.
I just think it’s silly to want to remove something so minute just because you find it annoying and or worthless.
Based on the related topics suggested below this topic and my own experiences since the first kana only words were introduced, the devs don’t care enough to pick a side in this fight. They started out committed to kanji, their scope drifted and now they have moved on to the next shiny thing.
I genuinely feel sorry for the folks who make suggestions and genuinely think there is someone on the other end who will even acknowledge it. The in-fighting it causes in the forums is disturbing because none of us users actually matter after we have paid our subscription fees.
