Thank you! Yes, I get old kanji now and look at them and don’t remember seeing them before. This is a good time to slow down for sure!
I’m using Tobira as my textbook. For as long as I have had it, I have seen these kanji as just decoration and not something that I can read.
Then WaniKani gives me this in level 11:
And now I can actually read what the cover of Tobira says. It’s the best feeling!
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Wow 扉 (とびら) itself is level 47 ._.
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Then I’m glad they put that word in hiragana!
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Very nice. Personally I was able to read ‘the basics’ in my textbook the other day and I got really excited.
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This is surprisingly fun. I’ve never played this type of game before and I guess I’m not part of the intended demographic but after you mentioned it I decided to just check it out and see what’s what. Most of the Japanese is way above my pay grade but at least I can understand some of it thanks to the English subtitles 
I’m really enjoying this, thanks!
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Oh I’m so happy! As previously mentioned I absolutely love this game. I’m not sure who the intended demographic would be exactly, but I know it was very popular when it was first released. This is my first time hearing any of the Japanese audio, and it’s honestly a very different experience than just hearing the voice actors read the translations out word for word. I really hope you stick with it, it’s a great game. It blends elements from a lot of different genres, and as far as I know there’s nothing else exactly like it.
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Perfect! 100% correct, congrats!
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I thought it’s intended for teens, but I never did grow up so I guess that’s ok then 
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I guess the protagonist is a teen so that’s a reasonable assumption, but you wouldn’t be the first adult to enjoy this game
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I also made it to level 12. Level 11 took me 20 days but one reason was I slowed down a little cause the Burn items and many Master items popped up 
This gave me like 170 reviews sometimes a day and I decided not to get more items in the queue.
I am glad I only failed a few burns and about 99% of the items actually also were burned. Some of them were also quite stupid that I didn’t burn them like transitive/intransitive forms
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I’m still looking forward to the first burns…
I’ll level up in a few hours, but I still have to do most of 11’s vocab. I was working the night shift this week and I managed to keep up with my reviews, but I haven’t done any lessons for the past few days. It’s just too exhausting. I’m staring at these kanji thinking ‘hey I know I’ve seen you before, do you come here often’ and my mind just goes blank… Accuracy scores aren’t that good right now.
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バーンをおめでとうと! 気持ちいいね〜
I’m over level 11 and I’m only 10 days in! UGH! I can’t bring myself to learn more Kanji! Definitely a good place to slow down, according to several people on this thread. I’m just going to chill out and clear my gigantic (~500) guru pile. I’m happy to have gotten apprentice down to 50.
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I plan to spend a couple of weeks on level 12 too. Definitely a good place to slow down!
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Hey Study buddies. I’m having trouble remembering the kanji in my reviews. Try to catch up to me while I take level 14 super super slow.
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Hi everyone, I finally made it to level 12. I was on such a good track when I stared with level 11. I was about to level up after about 15 days… and then I got sick. Just one day before leveling. it was so bad I had to put WK on vacation mode for a week. When I returned I could remember anything. I even got 50 or more vocabs hopping back from guru to apprentice. So annoying. I am now on track with my apprentice stack but I could´t do an new lessons… now I have about 160 of them. oh boy… let´s see how long this level will take me…
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Welcome to level 12! So many of us in this thread slow down on level 11 and 12. You’re in good company!
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Yes, it is probably the better option to go slow, but before getting sick I tried from going extremely slow to slow. 
I am aiming for around 18 days per level, trying to reduce it from 21 or higher.
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Returning is the hardest part and you already managed to do that. Those lessons are a nothing. They will crumble under your 鉄の心 (I doubt that’s correct Japanese but I hope you get my point)
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