i have that script and i feel like i have it for no reason because I FORGET TO CLICK THE BUTTON EVERY SINGLE TIME
Jumping on the Skytree climb…a bit late but I think I can make it ~
I work full time and devote probably about an hour to WK every day. I do reviews in the morning, on my lunch break, and in the evenings. I am averaging about 150-200 reviews per day. In the first 24 levels I went very fast, close to maximum speed. I used the reorder script to do radicals first then kanji and the doublecheck script to undo any typos. I have studied Japanese for 20 years prior to beginning WK so I already knew most of the early kanji and vocab (even now that I’m in the 30s levels, about 75% of the vocab is familiar to me) so I had a very high accuracy especially in the beginning, enabling me to keep up that fast speed. Now that more of the kanji and readings are less familiar to me I’m slowing down significantly. If I had started with no prior knowledge I would have had to go much slower in the early levels.

i have a lot of free time…
so i do 20 lessons a day (or more), and around 200 reviews. and i keep track of when time-critical reviews are coming up. and i spend something like 2 hours a day on WK.
i do use a lesson reorder script, but no double-check script or anything similar.
also, you’re just about at the levels with the highest workload/numbers of lessons. it gets a little easier later in the painful levels.
welcome to the skytree ^^ you’re already a third of the way up, and have a year left to get to the top, that sounds achievable! the speedrunners do the whole climb in a year, after all ![]()
well i’m just behind you and at the pace i’m going i have time to spare, so i believe you can do it!
How are your calligraphy lessons going Rose san?
Hey, thank you! I should have posted here too. I think im waiting until ive killed all my lessons before posting here. I appreciate it. Im startig to move into my new study but not really new because its my old study just more serious.
430 days. Probaly 165-300 more to burn what I want to burn and honeslty, sometimes I notice things I burned and burnt well ive forgotten a little so I unburn them. My brains old and full of holes.
The nice thing is those Kanji stick out like a sore thumb now. Makes it easier to identify and consume them in the wild. For example, Im translating a book on Wakayama Youkai that I bought a few years back and never even tried to read (lol) and I keep running across stuff thats N1 磯 for example. So, at least there is that. When you know 2100ish kanji the ones you dont know are like “And who are you then?!”
I thought it would be easy to translate because its short passages and ive read a few bigger books for middle schoolers way before level 60. I was terribly wrong. It likes to you esotoric language and takes on the feeling of like an old person telling a story around a fire so its painful.
It’s the same for me. I did Bunpro for a whole year but I hardly learnt anything from it.
I think it’s time for the monthly update. I have nearly finished the first Genki book just need to do some of the reading exercises in the back and learn to write all the kanji in the first book. But I am inpatient so I already started the second book.
Doing all the exercises in the book seems to have improved my japanese,
I think bunpro is good as a reinforcement, but not as a primary learning source.
SRSing the stuff you learned from genki might not be a bad idea, imo.
Did you also do the workbook?
Level 19 in 14 days and sitting happy on 555 burned items. Just taking my time, although I should hurry up and get through the current vocabulary pile before I start forgetting the kanji they use.
Level 16!!! Finally!
I need to get back into practicing my reading, been mostly focusing on listening and grammar last week mainly out of laziness ![]()
Man, reading is hard. I’ve been reading Higurashi and it takes all of my thinking power!
I used it as a reinforcement of what I learnt but doing the exercises in the genki books works much better for me. It’s easy to learn new grammar points but unfortunately I forget some of them over time. ![]()
Yeah I’m doing the exercises in the first workbook (I don’t have the second workbook yet). It will still take some time to finish the first workbook. Writing kanji by hand is really hard.
Man, I wish I studied grammar out of laziness lol, would push me from absolute beginner to intermediate beginner.
Hahahaha, the brain can procrastinate in the weirdest ways
You can always watch anime and call it immersion practice ![]()
Just did the vocabulary lessons for 没。It must have the record for most vocabulary for a Kanji in a single batch right? (I.E Upon getting guru with the Kanji, it unlocks the most vocabulary with that Kanji at one go). I just counted and it has 11 lmao
Recently, I’ve been wondering which kanji had the most vocab with it for guru. That’s so many all at once!
Going well, thank you for asking @KyokaJiro さん!
I’m still a gross amateur but I’m doing my best. Certainly a lot better now than I was when I started ![]()
I got to see @Saida さん at my last lesson, that was a nice surprise.


