After dropping Wanikani entirely at level 13, I decided to lock in last year starting off with clearing the enormous 1300+ review pile. And here we are, a year later, at level 60!
Just wanted to say it is never too late to start Wanikani again after a long break
Congratulations! That’s an amazing achievement!
I have a question: how are you able to clear levels in ~7 days? I review multiple times a day, and my average accuracy is roughly 90-95%.
Did you take more than the 15 lessons that you get each day?
It took me just over a week to clear it all up lol. I remember I got it down to like 800 on the first day, and it went back up to something like 1100 the next day because of all the wrong answers
The fastest you can Guru an item is 3.5 days (4h + 8h + 1day + 2days) so I tried to Guru the Radical as soon as I leveled up (doing the reviews as soon as they were available) and learn all of the available Kanji within the next 1-2 days or so. Then when I Guru’d the Radical, I would learn the unlocked Kanji (and doing the reviews as soon as they were available) which came out to be ~7 days per level.
I have my daily lesson limit set at its maximum of 100 (but you can manually select to do more), but I would clear all of the available lessons within the first day or two of leveling up.
I have not done more than the 15 recommended lessons a day, which I think is where my lesson average is coming from. So I’ll look into the advanced section now when I feel I could speed up
Congrats! Wow 100 lessons in one day! Can I ask where you were with your Japanese when you started back up a year ago, and where you are today? (N3, N2, N1?)
I would say I was somewhere between N5 and N4 before I started again and I would currently put myself at low-N1. I do plan on taking the N1 exam in December.
I live in Japan now and can get by most situations without any problems