I know, there’s a bunch of posts about this.
But I started recently and… oh boy.
一台 二台 五台 十台
Seriously, those are four entries?
I’m already thinking of quitting because of stuff like this.
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Luckily it isn’t too terribly prominent in the longrun, though definitely a little annoying.
If you wanted, you could use the “advanced” button on the lessons home icon and manually select/not-select the items you want to add and leave the repetitive things like that out of your review cycle. Vocab doesn’t count towards level progression, so there is no penalty to doing so other than it being a mild annoyance.
Other than that, though, learn to enjoy them as freebies on the lesson cycle and/or use something like an Anki Mode userscript to just Y/N pass them rather than waste the energy of a manually type out.
Would be nice if there was an official way to avoid that kind of tedium, but WK is pretty conservative about these kinds of features unfortunately.
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In the beginning, I believe WK is just trying to get you used to the ways that counting happens, like I know ten and 3 and sometimes 1 and 2 (in 一人 and 二人) can change their readings, so they kinda overdo it to help true beginners at kanji.
Either use advanced settings on lessons to avoid them or consider them easy freebies and keep on trucking! Past level 3 and further in, the amount of new kanji and vocab that you learn will be a lot better and diverse
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Cmon man, don’t let these easy ones filter you out.
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When you get a little further on, this will stop.
When I started a few months ago, I did extra lessons (>15) on days with easy stuff like 一台 二台 五台 十台.
Now at level 9, I mostly don’t do extras anymore because of all those darn readings that trip me up, i.e. “Does this word rendaku or not?” (Only exception for extra lessons now are when I get several words I already know for other reasons.)
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Those are vocab. If you don’t want to do certain vocab, you can use the lesson picker to just not start them. The level gating system is around kanji, which in turn is gated by the radicals. Vocab is not involved in the gating at all so you can choose to not start whatever you wish to not do.
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