:durtle_hello: Let's Durtle the Scenic Route 🐢

[potatonaught]

interesting, interesting… (takes notes)

I’m looking forward to those levels a little. I want to learn synonyms so I can study two vocab words at the same time.

[raindrops]

ty @fallynleaf + @Daisoujou for sharing (❁´◡`❁) it’s comforting hearing i’m not alone in this feeling and i am for sure already struggling with words with similar meanings as u both highlight aha – i’ve heard many people talk about the flurry of law words ahaha so rn i feel like i’m running at WK waiting for it to HIT:

@Daisoujou

here’s my own experience so far

is the Y axis the level of difficulty you found for each level?

[Daisoujou]

@raindrops

is the Y axis the level of difficulty you found for each level?

Yes! It’s an additional part of the workload graph that shows accumulated error percentage per level. There’s a clear spike in level 21 that used to be even more pronounced for me.

[raindrops]

i love API scripts (hehe thanks for sharing another to add to my growing collection)

v interesting; if I’m understanding the graph correctly, firstly, damn i have a high error percentage oops how embarrassing haha secondly, it seems my accuracy is better than it was in the 快 levels ? strange

[Daisoujou]

Happy to help!

@raindrops

v interesting; if I’m understanding the graph correctly, firstly, damn i have a high error percentage oops how embarrassing haha secondly, it seems my accuracy is better than it was in the 快 levels ? strange

I think it’s common for error percentage to build up over time because those later enlightened and burn reviews can be pretty tough, and the influence of recurring leeches will build up the more you fail them, so if you watch it over time, it’ll probably even out.

[rwesterhof]

You’ve started burning those levels. The last review to burn tends to have the lowest accuracy and it affects the average! The coloring is meant to explain such jumps…

[KitzuRane]

Talk about durtling the scenic route, I finally leveled up to level 45 the other day after squints at writing on hand 59 days! If you think that’s impressive, it’s actually over twice as fast as the previous level!
And my fastest level since level 40!!

My only regret is that I only bought lifetime this past holiday sale.

[ChicagoGreen]

This is a bit late, but thank you for the advice! It helped keeping me motivated. I finally made it to level 6 today (took ‘only’ 37 days)!! And 170 unlocked lessons ahead of me!

[Subikun]

Hello here!
After lurking on this topic for a while, I finally thought I could contribute and share my joy, because I just burnt my first radical today ; o;
Definitely intimidating to see how fast some people go, I’m glad there’s this community of people who just take it one step at the time
I started 6 months ago and I’m level 8 now, so an average of 21 days per level so far \o/

[Ollieeb]

I’ve been lurking for a while as well, and you’ve encouraged me to join in. I have never raced, but at about level 30 found I was spending way more time on WK than I wanted to, and stopped doing lessons altogether for a few months. I kept up the reviews religiously, and got my apprentice down to below 50, although it still fluctuates up with missed reviews. I only do 5 lessons a day now, and only when the number of reviews due for the next few days is well below 100. This is a very scenic way to do WK, but has made it really enjoyable, with no pressure, and I feel I am really consolidating the kanji now. And then they added the “practice recent mistakes” and “practice recent lessons” options. Even more scenic. I love it, and feel I am making real progress, rather than just rushing to 60.
Good luck to all those on the scenic route, and 乾杯 to life balance.

[OwenDG]

Into level 12 now! 23 lessons left from 11, so it will take me a few days before I even start doing level 12 lessons. I’m at a good even pace right now and I am seeing vocab I’ve already learned, which must mean something is going right in my activity elsewhere. It is really satisfying when I get a new Kanji and I can learn it through reference to the vocabulary I already know.

Welcome new scenic route folk!

[Need2Read]

I think I figured something out–if I do 5 lessons before starting reviews, I chip away at a level much more quickly than if I try to do all the reviews before doing any lessons. I suppose that was obvious, but y’know…

[potatonaught]

@Subikun

I just burnt my first radical today ; o;

Congrats!

@Ollieeb

I love it, and feel I am making real progress

Welcome new friends! Enjoy the views

[raindrops]

got to level 23 this morning ! lately, i’ve been seeing a huge amount of enlightened items in my reviews and so many of them i’ve got wrong. when they go back down to guru, at first, it feels a bit tragic haha but then i remind myself the goal is to genuinely know the words not just to pass WK as quickly as possible

so here’s to the other side of scenic-route-durtling: acceptance of retaking the route over and over again until you really know it

@Need2Read

if I do 5 lessons before starting reviews, I chip away at a level much more quickly than if I try to do all the reviews before doing any lessons. I suppose that was obvious, but y’know…

for the record, this is also something i only realized today but hey better late than never!

[fallynleaf]

Made it to level 32! Took a little over 14 days. It’s been a busy level for me, so I didn’t get as much reading and textbook study done as I would have liked (and my main study log post will be a bit late ), but I did get through lesson 27 of Minna no Nihongo and finished another translation.

The spring read every day challenge just started, so I signed up for that and inadvertently started a bit of a trend haha where a bunch of us are trying to read something in another language in addition to Japan every day. So I’m going to be spending a little more time reading in Spanish as well, hopefully!

[potatonaught]

@fallynleaf

The spring read every day challenge just started, so I signed up for that and inadvertently started a bit of a trend haha where a bunch of us are trying to read something in another language in addition to Japan every day.

Congrats on your level up, and yay reading challenge! This’ll be my first time joining. I’ll keep in eye out for you in-thread!

[fallynleaf]

@potatonaught

This’ll be my first time joining. I’ll keep in eye out for you in-thread!

It’ll be fun to have you! The thread is a nice little community of people. It’s a blast to follow along with it . Unfortunately I don’t really post much about my reading in there haha because I post my updates in the pro wrestling thread instead . But I do read everyone else’s posts, and occasionally chime in with updates and comments.

[raindrops]

@fallynleaf @potatonaught oooo good luck in your reading every day challenge!! I would love to join one of these soon but i know the next month is gonna be super busy for me so maybe i’ll join if they do a summer reading challenge when this one finishes (apparently on May 31!)

[potatonaught]

Did all my level 10 vocab lessons, so next lesson time I’ll start the Hell levels in earnest! So long for real Pleasant levels

[JazzFuneral]

@potatonaught

So long for real Pleasant levels

For a second I read that as, “So long for real, peasants!” and was prepared to feign offense.