Finally finished the WaniKani DLC!
I’ve actually been level 60 for a while now but the forum didn’t notice until now, when I had to manually log out/in so it would let me make this thread. I’d say I wanted to wait till I had the kanji in this level down, but mostly I was procrastinating.
When I started WaniKani back in 2016 I had no idea it would take me this long, but life happened and I’m thankful I grabbed lifetime early. I’m most certainly not here to be a model to anyone, nor to discourage anybody, just sharing how it was for me and have a little fun.
First, please allow me to show you these nightmare stats:
(From https://www.wkstats.com/)
I started one nice summer, just before the last year of my first degree, so I was progressing along at a leisurely pace until reality hit, then slowed down and stopped altogether every time exam season or some other life event came around. I was on one level for longer than a year at one point!!
Sadly some of the earliest data seems to be missing, but in the heatmap I can almost follow all the events in my life that had me pausing WK. Dang, some of those months are looking thin. You can even see how productive the lockdown was
If you want to get though WaniKani quickly, definitely don’t do what I did!
But if you never stop completely you can make it eventually, even if a million things get in the way. And sometimes that’s just life. Since I started WaniKani I have finished two degrees, started working, lived in 4 different places and 2 different countries, lost a frankly absurd amount of family members at different points, been on vacation, been working like crazy… But I always thought to come back to WaniKani when things calmed down, and here we are now.
Definitely get lifetime if you are going down this path though
I believe one of the biggest reasons I never forgot about WaniKani is that I kept coming back to this forum, even when I had stopped doing lessons and reviews, because of all the bookclubs and incredible community here. Seeing everyone’s progress and reading all the conversations about books, games, etc. gave me my motivation back time and again, and although I may not have a lot of WaniKani-ing left, I’m definitely staying for the community, so thanks to everyone that has contributed to that! I basically live in the Book Clubs and Reading subforums now.