Last January, I started learning Japanese and started WK. I initially planned to spend around a year learning Japanese, and then perhaps visit Japan to celebrate. Conveniently, WK takes a little under a year to complete. As usual, the early levels were incredibly slow and boring and I vowed to go t…

Man, learning is not a speedrun. You have to take your time. Even if some of your level can take 10 days or a month, you should not take care about numbers. What is really important is that you remember those kanji and that you learn and keep those kanjis in your heads. Numbers are just … number…

I think your motivation is all wrong. You’re going through WaniKani for speed rather than for enjoyment. Just slow down and go at pace where you can actually have fun learning. I started over two years ago and I’m only level 32. Is this as far as I’d like to be right now? No, but I can honestly say …

I’m quite certain the font randomizer script would drive me straight to the madhouse.

[image] l_l: On the one hand, I don’t want to admit defeat. Partly out of pride, but mostly because once I stop once, I’ll have broken my streak forever and thus lost most of the motivation causing me to keep at WK every day. First of all, congratulations on making it to Level 39 …

Haha, me too. I keep trying to use it, and I keep almost throwing my laptop out the window at the same time. Interesting how coincidences happen.

Update: I completed my first fast level last night without incident. I got to see the image for 100+ lessons available for the first time. I’m sure I’ll be seeing a lot more of it in the future. 9.5 weeks to go! [Screenshot 2020-10-17 at 18.13.46]

Congrats I_I san :metal: Great going :clap:

Best of luck, I’m on level 43 and keep increasing my time by making 1 mistake :triumph: Level starts with exactly the amount of kanji needed to pass, so I don’t get any leeway. The answer override button is a big temptation

Yeah, you have to be really careful with the kanji reviews on the fast levels, especially the initial ones. Even if I’m confident in the answer, I usually pause for a second when doing the level reviews, just to reduce the risk of stupid mistakes. So far I’ve made it to level 45 at full speed despit…

Generally I’m pretty much an idiot so I’m kind of bound to make a bunch of mistakes anyway. WK mnemonics never seem to stick for me so I have to come up with my own for all the Kanji, which I may or may not be able to do… I try not to review kanji between the SRS reviews on WK since Tofugu advises a…

Level 38 and ready to give up

WaniKani

l_l November 20, 2020, 6:11am 124

I started a new thread to track my progress since hitting level 50 in case anyone is curious and wants to follow along: Diary of a mad level 50'er

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Level 38 and ready to give up

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