Hopped out of my reviews early so I could take a pic at the right time lmao 
I really gotta do some more lessons.
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Level 24! Thirteen days this time. This was maybe the hardest level for me yet, both in terms of real life sort of getting in the way, and the material itself seeming to be more difficult. My accuracy dipped a little bit near the end of last month because I did a lot of reviews while busy or distracted, so I had some older items bouncing back while also trying to learn a bunch of new vocab that was especially difficult due to being a lot of words for abstract concepts that were harder to pin down.
But, in any case, I got through it and am on level 24 now! I also decided to go from doing 13 lessons most days to doing 12 a day. A very small decrease, haha, but it will add up over time. Iām hoping itāll help make up for some of the older reviews returning.
One thing thatās cool is that I started WaniKani at the end of December 2020, so Iām coming up on a year of doing this! Despite having an uneven start for the first few months, I ended up averaging about two weeks a level after all. If I keep up this pace, I should have about a year and a half left!
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@fallynleaf congrats on approaching nearly a year of WK ! thatās a fun milestone ! 
hey all 
achieved this goal and made it to level 13 this morning which brought my level-up average from 36 days to 28 ??? crazy!
my level-up time is so high bc of levels 5 and 6; throughout level 5, i was writing most of my final papers for my degree and during level 6, i was going through some seriously heavy life stuff so it totally makes sense the levels took so long. Iām definitely only able to do this quicker-than-my-average rate because of my life situation atm allowing me to but it feels good getting in this learning while i can. not to mention it feels super healing seeing the effects of the level 6 period of my life slowly fading if that makes sense.
anyway, feeling grateful!
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Hey guys, as someone who is also taking about 25ish days per level I canāt help to feel like I am not doing enough on a daily basis to reach a somewhat fluent level within the next 4-5 years.
How much are you guys putting into your studies day by day as scenic durtlers?
I understand itās no use to compare these numbers but I am genuinely curious how other slow folks on WK schedule their days.
For reference, I am doing roughly an hour a day with 20ish minutes put into SRS, the rest being grammar cramming and content input (also a weekly Italki sesh)
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I actually put quite a bit of time into Japanese each day, though WK is only a relatively small portion of that. I think I spend a little over an hour on SRS each day (split between WaniKani, Kaniwani, and Anki), and often well over an hour or two on textbook study, writing practice, and reading, plus a lot of hours of passive immersion (watching unsubtitled Japanese media, reading tweets on twitter, etc.) that I donāt count as study time 
.
Itās hard to measure progress toward fluency, but Iām about a third of the way through the Minna no Nihongo beginner series and am on track to complete it around when I complete WK, which should be in a year and a half or so (Iām taking about 12-14 days per level). Once I reach an intermediate level, I suspect that Iāll be able to progress a lot faster because reading will become substantially easier (and thanks to WK, kanji wonāt be a bottleneck), so Iām hoping this puts me on track to become decently proficient at the language within the next 4-5 years.
I should mention, though, that I am not practicing speaking at all because it isnāt a priority for me. My goal with learning the language is reading and auditory comprehension, not using it to communicate with other people. So even if I reach an advanced reading/listening level, my ability to produce the language will probably lag behind quite a bit.
My goal is to complete WK moderately fast (2.5 years total), but not so fast that Iām neglecting other areas of study, hence my slower pace. I never want SRS to become more than half of the time I spend studying each day. But I will be glad to be done with WK eventually, because thatāll allow me to add more words to Anki instead (which will make reading easier, which will increase the amount of content input I get each day, whichāll help me become fluent faster, etcā¦).
Iām not sure that this is really typical, though . I should mention that studying Japanese is one of my main hobbies right now (and my other main hobby is watching Japanese pro wrestling, which combines extremely well with language learning), so studying is quite literally what I do for fun in my spare time. Spending multiple hours a day studying is fun for me instead of being mentally draining.
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I also spend more time learning japanese than just doing wanikani. I also try to read for about 2-3 hours every week. Regarding just wanikani: i so reviews about 4 time/day. Morning, at lunch, after dinner and before I go to bed. Iād say reviewing takes 10-25 minutes each session, so I probably spend around 1-1.5 h on wanikani each day. To manage reviews I keep my apprentice pile below 85. My level-up time is about 17-18 days.
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I had no idea, but turns out Iāve been durtling very efficiently for a long time! Never had a real break, just took the long course.
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If Iāve got the time in my schedule, Iāll do 10-15 minutes of WK before work, 10-15 minutes during lunch break, and 10-15 minutes after dinner. But usually Iām lucky to get maybe 20 minutes on it a day, plus another 10-15 minutes on Duolingo every day.
However, Iām two weeks into level 10 and am showing zero kanji ālearnedā yet for this level, so this is a mighty slow pace. Itās going to be another 3-4 week level, I think. Iām on the 5 year WK plan, apparently! 
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This is a good place to note Iāve moved onto the lifetime plan, my plan since I started researching wanikani a while ago was that if I was still doing it when the sale came around, I would commit to lifetime, given a speed run was never in my future. This way I can durtle at my own pace, for as long as that is still an enjoyable and helpful way to learn!
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celebrating cool milestones: i saw on my heatmap today:
20k reviews bbyyy!!!
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Reached level 25! I also have a lifetime membership now!
This past level took me just twelve days. If I keep doing 12-13 day levels, I might have to lower my average a little more, haha. I donāt think Iām ever going to get faster than that, though.
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I just found this post and this is definitely my speed - I am averaging about 18 days per level right now. I am trying to do about 10 new lessons per day but sometimes itās only 5, plus steadily keeping up with reviews. I am doing reviews about 3 times per day - they are mostly centered on my lunch hour at work right now which makes sense since that is when I have the most time to work on this. I should start seeing radicals from lesson 6 this weekend. I get really excited when I see words or kanji from WK āin the wild.ā Also working my way through Genki 1 (finishing Lesson 2) and the Tadoku graded readers (just starting Level 0). As you can see, just a beginner here - but already feel like I have learned more here in 2 months than in a whole year of Japanese in college!
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I love this moment 
And the reverse of seeing something in the wild and then it pops up on WK.
Ex. me learning ä» and then running into the radical in my next lesson 
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I made it to level 11 before the end of the year!! ::phew:: That took most of the monthā¦ But a new level, a new year. 
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This might be the lowest lesson count I get to before some kanji start guru-ing so iām marking the occasion lol. Down from like 190 lessons.
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Made it to level 10! 
Hoped to do it by the end of the year, but a week into the next one also works.
Final level of Pleasant!
New average level-up time 33 days. Good thing I got that lifetime sub.
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Starting lessons again today. Iāve been keeping up with reviews since I moved up to level ten, but taken a break from lessons. I had hoped to zero my apprentice pile, but however close I get there are always a few things I mess up from Guru and end up dropping down. Usually once I know a word I know the reading and vice versa, but I mix it up with something when I see it. It doesnāt seem to be the same stuff, just a rotation of different mix ups!
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Level 26! Bit of a slower one for me, since it took 15 days. I kind of needed a little bit more time to get some other things done, though, so I donāt really mind . I also just started lesson 20 in Minna no Nihongo, and have been doing a bunch of reading, so Iāve been pretty productive!
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Hey, thatās exactly my tempo! I donāt know why I didnāt spot this thread earlier. Seems like exactly my kind of approach.
Iām doing 9 lessons daily and reviews once in the evening when I have the most time, keeping things slow but steady.
I think I found the optimal pace for me to go at, I like seeing apprentice numbers <70 or so:
Been picking up some pace on grammar finally (Cure Dolly), but I need to supplement this with some native material too, I believe. I can definitely relate to the awesome feeling of seeing, for example, kanji in song lyrics, and you suddenly can actually read them (to a degree at least 
).
Last but not least, I also like how my recent font randomization experiment is going:
The new void radical is easy to remember methinks.
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