Day 34 on Level 8 for me. But Iām almost at the end, counting down the last few items!
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Made it to 22 last night! Spend just shy of twelve days on 21. I think I will change my average level up time, but maybe after next level, haha.
Itās been a pretty busy month so far! Very grateful for the two weeks break before the spin-off club for the absolute beginners book club starts. Iāve gotten my reviews done and some textbook study done, but not much else 
. Looking forward to December.
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yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay !! i finally made it to level 11 and the next stage of WK !!! here we go č¦!!! 
iāve never been so happy to see the crabigator surrounded by lessons mwahaha (just kidding i will save u soon crabigator 
)
i really felt myself counting down the days leading up to this level-up like never before, doing the reviews as soon as they came in; it felt so sloooow (took me 35 days in all woof, my third longest level) but iām feeling so proud of myself rn!! the email made me a bit emotionaaaal x
good luck everyone ^-^
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Congrats!! Bon voyage from the Pleasants! 
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Just added myself to the list, I hope to enjoy the durtle lifestyle with yāall! 
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looks good to me!
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I was so busy at the end of November, I just realized I forgot to post here when I leveled up! I made it to 23! Took just over twelve days. It was probably my hardest level yet, and I got the least done outside of WK than I have since I started studying in earnest. I did manage to win NaNoWriMo, though (my thirteenth year in a row!).
Iām working on catching back up on MNN, as well as reading volume two of å¤§ęµ·åćØå¤§ęµ·å along with the spin-off book club here. So far, it hasnāt been too hard getting back in the swing of things. Itās so nice to have free time again! 
I also changed my average level up time in this thread to 14 days instead of 15, since these 12 day levels have been lowering my average.
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āDoing it rightā is whatever feels ārightā to you. I think if youāre enjoying the process of using WK to learn Japanese (kanji plus a bit of vocab), then thatās what counts as āthe scenic routeā.
If youāre going so fast that itās no longer enjoyable (e.g. stressful, overwhelming): 
, then you could slow down until itās enjoyable again.
Or, if youāre going so slow that it feels like youāre not really making much progress toward your own personal goals of learning, and hence itās not really enjoyable 
, then Iād say that even speeding up a bit could be a way to get back on the āscenic routeā, i.e. back to where itās actually enjoyable again.
I donāt think itās going slow just to go slow; itās more like āgoing at your own paceā to āenjoy the delights of the journeyā along the way. 
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little update from level 11:
today i finally crossed that line going from where u have no kanji passed in the level to about half passed; i love that moment bc seeing that bar fill up is super motivating but i also know from past experience itās deceptive hehe - i still have a long while to go before passing this level (wkstats even thinks its still 20 days whelp)!
interestingly, i also have the most critical condition items i think iāve ever had in this level despite finding the concepts relatively simple! ä¹ćå “ and ä¹ćē© are super easy and yet i keep mixing them up bc of the wing radical!
p.s. @wct I LOVED THIS very good advice and sentiment!! I definitely relate to the perhaps unintuitive speeding up to get to the scenic route idea 
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Awesome work!!
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made it to level 12 babbbbyyyy or should i say åäŗē“ 
(ā¦should i say that hahaa? learnt the kanji for ālevelā in level 11 but who knows if thatās actually how you would say ālevel 12ā haha)
feeling happy 
level 11 took me 15 days which is the shortest amount of time a level has taken me (except level 1!); my average level-up time went down by 2 days because of it!
really feeling good and comfortable with having upped the pace of my WK learning lately (given that my life situation can accommodate that now!) but iām still sticking to my rule of no more than 100 apprentice items at any given time! feels a lil tempting to want to just get all those lessons down to 0, but i know my learning style: iāll learn everything better if i keep to that rule!
that said, between u n me, itād be dope to get to level 13 before 2022 
hope yāall are having a good week <3
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Made it to level 10, yahoo!! Currently looking at almost 100 items to learn and over 100 items to reviewā¦ (crawls back into the futon)
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ććć§ćØććććć¾ćļ¼level 10 is a huge accomplishment !
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Yes! This is exactly what we are all about! 
When speeding too fast you miss the joy of the journey. So itās about slowing down, if only just a little, to enjoy the journey itself (every kanji we see, every milestone we meet)
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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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