Iām currently struggling a bit because several months back I was doing a lot more lessons than I am now, and all those items are just now coming back as Enlightened (in other words, potential Burns).
And they just keep coming and coming, piling up my reviews. So, Iāve drastically reduced how many lessons Iām doing. Havenāt done any in a couple of days, for instance.
Itās okay to completely stop new lessons until you get your reviews back to a more comfortable level, IMHO. Itās all about the long run.
For instance, Iām now thinking to myself, āWell, I guess I should watch out in the future if I ever get the urge again to splurge on lessons like I did a few months ago. Iāll have to keep in mind what my future-self will have to go through when all those reviews come back!ā
That makes sense. Part of my problem was going at too fast of a pace over the holidays and now catching up with that. SRS really does force you to think long term.
levelled up today! Last level took 160 days and this level took 10 days ! the scenic route doesnāt have to look consistent, some days weāre zoomin and other days weāre taking it nice and slow!
to repeat what others have been saying @NewFoundBlob more times than not Iām only doing reviews not lessons especially for the reasons @wct wrote about - those enlightened reviews will come with a vengence and mess you up hahah so I like to do lessons spaced out and slowly
Yeah, congrats! Are you now on 28 or 27? Your forum ālevelā says 27 at the moment, but so does mine, and Iāve been on WK level 28 for a few weeks now. Just curious if we happen to be on the same WK level? (Sometimes takes the forums a while to catch up; I think one can fix it by re-logging-in, but I donāt care that much to bother )
This levelās taking me longer than usual, because of all the incoming Enlightened Ones as mentioned earlier.
Love the cat gif. Is that perhaps Toonces the Driving Cat? Or just coincidental cat-in-the-driverās-seat, as they say? They say? Whoās they? ā¦
@wct Iām on level 28 - I always guessed the forum level shows the highest level number which you have completed (guruād all items) and since weāre still working on lvl.28 and itās not completed yet thatās why weāre 27 ! How cool to be on the same level together snap! letās do this!!
thanks for the gif appreciation (+ @alygator) i merely offer the crabigator a sacrifice and in exchange he provides me with the best gif for each occasion in this instance, a coincidental cat-in-the-driverās-seat as they say
Nope, it has nothing to do with progress through the level! If you log out and then log back in again, itāll show your correct level, but if not, I think itāll only update when you level up again. So itās up to you if you mind the number in your icon lagging behind or not. I always update mine because otherwise it feels silly to me to be making posts on my study log about leveling up when my icon still shows the previous level .
Can I join here if I plan to go at it slower later, but right now Iām trying to be fast as fuck bois hahah?
Used to be lv21, then life happened, away for 1.5 years. Back back this new year and reset to lv1.
So I remember the early levels are easy and can be blitz through, but later levels are more complicated and then I slow down.
Alright I joined the Tomat team, looks pretty tasty. This time I really try not to push myself too hard and burn out. Most levels are around 4-6hr over max speed. But one time I went to Japan and that level took 2 weeks since I donāt wanna worry about reviews while in Japan haha. So actual average speed is around 8.6 days not counting the first 2 levels.
I spent my standard fourteen days on level 55, and I also managed to complete the first chapter of Tobira within that window of time! Hooray!
A more detailed description of Tobira will be forthcoming in my study log update, haha, but for now, Iāll say that the chapters feel about 2-3 times more work than a Minna no Nihongo lesson. They have like twice the vocab and twice the grammar points, plus more reading (which is honestly welcome, at this point), and the workbook exercises are much more open-ended, and there are less pure grammar drills.
I think Iāll be able to keep doing the chapters at my standard two week pace, though, as long as I stay ahead with adding the vocab to Anki, and probably set aside a full week for the workbook. I did all the workbook exercises in like four days for the first chapter, but it was a bit more work than I like to do in any given day, so I want to spread it out a little more next time.
Got a lot on my plate right now with my translation workload (I have half a big show still left to translate, plus the stuff from the TJPW match at Keiji Mutohās retirement show, plus two press conferences, plus a VOD show thatās happening tonight, whichāll be up in just a few daysā¦), so thatāll be keeping me quite busy, haha, in addition to a few non-Japanese writing projects Iām trying to complete by the end of the month.
Iāve been finding more and more characters I donāt recognize as I level up further, so I have a feeling this may be the pace Iāll be going at, but we shall see! I used to be pretty good with matching the SRS timing, but lately Iāve kinda done WaniKani whenever I remember to do it in the day. Maybe Iāll put an alarm on my phone to remind me better
Would force it to become a routine in some way, will greatly help with doing lessons, hitting timings and doing reviews. You wonāt need to rely on will power and the workload will feel like a fraction of what it is due to you being on autopilot. It is super important.
Yea I think so too! I kept it casual to not demotivate myself again, but now that Iām confident I can keep it up, Iām gonna challenge myself to create a routine again, since the WaniKani system is reliant on that.
hello community! im back after a big lazy break session!
Iām currently at 1029 reviewsā¦
but now i know not to rush and burn myself out. Iāve done about 150 reviews today, and iām pretty proud of myself.
good luck, everyone!
im also part of the studdy buddy race but lets not talk about that
edit: now itās down to 700! i did some more reviews today and iām not beating myself up for getting things wrong anymore.
as much as i love the idea of this group, and although my pace for anything tends to be a lot slower than most people, i just canāt be doing it here
i donāt have a lifetime membership, so i kind of have to do as much as possible while at the same time try not to overwhelm myself
i do have a question, tho
if it takes several years to get to a high level, how can you be sure you remember all your burned items?
now that i say that, i realise youāve probably all reset a few times
(as someone on her 3rd year of durtling with nearly 3000 burned) this is why itās important to be reading native content. This way you get exposure to lots of the words youāve burned and itās a simple test to see if you can recall the meaning and reading.
i suppose thatās true
iām only just starting out, and iām focusing on kanji (and vocab, which i wouldnāt have bothered with if not for wanikani) for now
tāwas my new yearās resolution to learn some :3c
iāll deal with grammar later
i do actually have a few japanese books that i think are for sixth graders
so iāll be looking at those once in a while to see how much more i can read
Indeed. I also wrote a comment on another thread about a technique I call a ārolling resetā.
Iām still currently continuing with this ongoing rolling reset. Itās even to the point that Iām re-burning the items I reset.
While Iām currently at level 28 (a few more days left), Iām also in the process of rolling-resetting my burned items from level 18. And over the course of the last several months, I have already rolling-reset levels 1-17, and Iām already re-burning items at around level 8 to 9.
In this process, Iāve become a lot more confident that I āreally knowā all the items Iāve previously burned. Most of them were quite straightforward, and I re-burned them without any mistakes. Maybe about 30% of them give me any trouble at all, and maybe about 5-10% I might call āleechesā. But the SRS just does its magic thing and eventually I re-learn those ones again, and finally re-burn them as well. In comparison to new lessons, all of them except perhaps the leeches are much easier in terms of mental energy required.
And, in some ways, doing a rolling reset has actually been helpful for me to enjoy Durtling the Scenic Route, since the āold friendsā are less mentally taxing and I have a higher accuracy with them, so I get more āpositive feedbackā during my review sessions.
You might think re-doing all those early items would be boring or overwhelming. But itās actually not (for me at least). Itās actually enjoyable. Pleasant, even! Whoāda thunk it?!
especially for the reasons 
Congrats on levelling up!!
Are you now on 28 or 27? Your forum ālevelā says 27 at the moment, but so does mine, and Iāve been on WK level 28 for a few weeks now. Just curious if we happen to be on the same WK level? (Sometimes takes the forums a while to catch up; I think one can fix it by re-logging-in, but I donāt care that much to bother 
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i merely offer the crabigator a sacrifice and in exchange he provides me with the best gif for each occasion 
in this instance, a coincidental cat-in-the-driverās-seat as they say
Like yay but alsoā¦ 