Hi, everyone! I hope we are all having a good weekend 
I know we all post about burns, but my first ones are not gonna be until a few months.
That said…
I have reached enlightenment!
They actually started coming some days ago (I don’t really remember) and I have over a hundred now, but still makes me smile big every time I see “Enlightened” pop up. I am now even more motivated to go further!
Level 12 was super hard for me too. 13 seems to be a bit better and faster, so I do think it eases up soon!
Aight aight, I’ll join too.
Welcome! You can do it!
Hit level 14 yesterday night! Still chipping away at alot of the vocab from previous levels though. @Marifly how are you finding 12? Did you end up slowing it down for this level?
Level 8!
Congrats on your level up! 2/3 of the way to 21!!!
Yes, I slowed down on level 12. I tried different ways to slow down, and right now I have decided to do 15 lessons per day. It seems to be working for now at least. I will reach 0 lessons and 0 reviews tomorrow. That will be a relief! This will be a long level for me, maybe almost 3 weeks, but that’s the way it had to be.
Hit lvl 13 just now. It took me 27 days to finish lvl 12. That was such a long time ó.ò
I hope the next level will take at least 10 days less! 
I will probably be close to that on level 12 too. It seems that many of us struggle with that level. But it’s always better to go slow than to burn out! Congrats on your level up!
Alright, update on level 13 so far… there’s a lot. I have slowed down significantly, but after spending 5 days on level 13, I’m starting to feel more comfortable with this set of new kanji. Definitely more complicated looking kanji and some with very similar meanings too. Getting stuff wrong is much easier in this level, specially if you’re being careless. But it’s not overwhelming like 12 was, thankfully.
Level 12 will be the longest level so far for me. I’m failing quite a lot of level 10-11 words, I just had a horrible 64% score for a 40 item review. The satisfaction when they do finally seem to stick is nice though. Words like 支度 and 仕事 for example. I really hated them until I loved them.
Yeah, quite often I find that the Kanji I hate the most tends to end up sticking because my brain hates it so much it decides to burn it directly into the cortex
I was wondering about this as well. Almost happy to see everybody is struggling a bit at this stage with level 12. I first thought it was because of my holiday mode that I had forgotten some words.
How may apprentice items do all of you guys have around level 12?
For me it’s the first time I am over 200, I used to have around 120. Should I slow down a bit?
I haven’t been struggling with the words yet, but it might come back to hunt me in a couple of levels I guess…
200 apprentice is a lot! I see that your guru count is a little high as well. You may want to take it slow for a week just to get your apprentice and guru down.
I had about 150 apprentice up to level 10 and just drowned on level 11. Now on level 12 I decided to get it down to about 120. I don’t mind if I jump over that sometimes, but I try to stay around 120. I do find that it’s more important for me to have an even flow of lessons than to keep my number of apprentice items down. So right now I do 15 lessons most day and just let my apprentice items do its thing. I got to 0 lessons and 0 reviews for a moment earlier today and I expect my apprentice items to go down as I clear out the remainder of level 12. When I get to level 13 it will probably jump up a little again.
This is similar to me! After a multi-year break, I reset from level 11 to level 2, and now I’m climbing back up. I’m really eager to get back there cuz I feel shy about resetting, but taking it slow is important so I don’t burn out the same way I did last time.
Also, hello everyone! I’ve been lurking the thread, but this is my first post. 
I’m not typically motivated by competition (in fact it can have the opposite effect) so I need to be careful here, but I also have the goal of getting to around level 21 so it’s nice to see everyone going together!
Let’s do our best~
頑張りましょう！
Welcome!
There is no competition here. Some go fast, some go slow, some joined early and will reach level 21 earlier and some joined late and will reach level 21 later. Some joined the thread at a higher level and some joined the tread at a lower level. It’s all good! The only person you’re competing with is yourself (plus the calendar, if you want to reach level 21 by the end of the year). Go as slow as you like. I’m glad you joined us!
Thank you! 
I guess I thought of competition because of the leaderboard and study buddy rivalry stuff, but I totally understand that’s motivating to others, which is cool to see! We’ve all got our own methods and I appreciate the positivity here. 
120 was more doable, I decided Yesterday to get it over with and do all of my level 12 lessons in one go, hence the high number.
Def taking your advice and staying on 12 untill I am back around 100 apprentice words and then take on level 13.
Thanks to all of you guys for making me stay with it and not backing out on WK
Thank you! You too We can do it!
