Ive only just discovered kaniwani and im finding it so hard. literally took half hour to get through 15 vocubulary and i kept reminding myself. I relise that this is on vocab ive only had 1 day and ive now unlocked my other levels so ive got over 650 in kaniwani. its so frustrating as it makes me feel like i know nothing but i guess this great practice and hopefully will solidify that knowledge more. anyone else using it? how you getting on?
I havenāt used it in a long time now, but I think itās generally recommended to set it to burn only mode. This allows you to actually learn the item on WK before you try to recall it.
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Yeahh I gave up on kaniwani real early but it does gets frustrating when you canāt tell whether they want the 儳å, 儳ć®å or å°å„³ reading for āgirlā 
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This has made the experiecne much better! i now get vocab ive axtually learnt. thank you very much, great advice 
man i hear you, very frustrating. but despite that i do feel it will help with memorising
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Actually, I identify which one do they want from me from list of synonyms 
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yeah but its difficult i feel because there are some word which are pretty mucgh the same
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Eh, I keep it at apprentice, and I donāt add user synonyms. I simply donāt give a crap about my accuracy over there, and use it just as solid practice. The synonyms do start to pile up after awhile. Just when I thought Iād seen all the āsupportā WK had to offer, they throw 2 more at me. So at some point my method is unsustainable, but at lvl 22, Iām still OK.
I do keep a synonym notebook that lists all the sub-meanings of each word like āactionā or āfeelingā. However, there are a couple words like āloveā which have multiple readings and no sub-meanings. I just take the 50/50 on those for now, but maybe Iāll do something about it later.
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Just fyi, KameSame is much better about synonyms. Itāll be like āYouāre right, that does mean girl, but we mean this girl. We wonāt mark it wrong, so answer with that girl the next time aroundā
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Setting it to burns only is not really about accuracy, itās about minimizing the number of reviews. If you keep it at apprentice youāre going to have many more reviews
Sure. And thatās not so bad. The idea that SRS is a replacement for repetition has never really rung true to me. I donāt mind using them hand in hand.
And since itās vocab only, and only one input per word (reading only, since the meaning is on the screen), the reviews go fast. Plus, since the SRS intervals arenāt hallowed over there (since theyāre the same words as WK), I can do them whenever I want. Let them pile up for awhile, knock a bunch down, whatever.
Again, only lvl 22 here, so I can sort of see this wonāt work forever, but for now, itās really improved my accuracy on the WK readings to have that reinforcement.
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I started out doing both KameSame and WaniKani and after a while couldnāt keep up - Iāll definitely use it in the future again once I start burning things! Right now it just took up too much time which I wanted to use for grammar.
I try to be two levels behind at all time at KaniWani. So if Iām at level 5 an WK, I unlock up to level 3 in KW. That works pretty well. Since I started with KW pretty soon after WK I donāt have that many items to go through either. I found that it really helps me solidify many of the words, and that my WK reviews also go easier after I started with KW. Itās a pretty cool feeling as well when you see a word and donāt remember how to say it, so you picture the kanji in your head, and then remember the spelling thanks to the kanji. It really makes me appreciate kanji a lot more!
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Yeah Iām definitely liking kamesame much more for that reason, I canāt imagine how annoying it would be if I got it marked as wrong on those, like for example how I just got 3 different words for limit, with only 1 of them having an extra meaning.
As for the topic, it is definitely a lot harder, but I feel it really does so much work that iād almost consider it a must to go with wanikani as it made it so much easier to remember things. I do wish I had found out about it earlier though, I think i started around level 16 or so with kamesame and going through all that at first was pretty tough.
The problem I have with KameSame is it tells you the answer when you enter a synonym. Iād much rather have a āThis is correct, yes, but weāre looking for something else. Please try again.ā message. Just because I can remember one of the synonyms doesnāt mean I can remember the word itself. I havenāt used it in a while, so maybe thereās an option for that now, but thatās why I ended up preferring KaniWani. The āoptionā there is to spam the ignore button.
KW/KS are hard because they force you to remember things that WK tells you for free, like Kanji order (is it ä¾å¤ or å¤ä¾ ?), number of Kanji (ćććć for äŗŗé”å¦ is obviously wrong on WK, less so on KW) and okurigana.
is kaniwani down for anyone else?
Yes, for everyone. They forgot to renew a certificate. It will be up again when they renew it
It wasnāt that i forgot, it is that the auto-updater blew up when it needed a manually approved software update. Reworking the script so it doesnāt happen again. Sorry for the downtime!
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I just started a little bit ago too.
Yeah, itās a lot harder, which is great.
(or rather, itās not so much āharderā as it is āunfamiliarā)
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Hi Joesan, can you tell me how to input Kanji into kaniwani. I have my input set to Japanese input which works for all other programs, but I keep getting Romanji .
Thanking you Pamela.