Complaining is still a must so here we go. This is mostly ranting, but feedback is greatly appreciated if you have any.
My review accuracy has dropped a lot, it is usually 65-75%. I think I fail to burn over half of the vocabulary which is in enlightened. At the same time, I feel I have started to forget a lot of the words in Burns. I want to catch up with leeches, so I have slowed down the leveling to my slowest so far (14 days per level), but new stuff still gets in the way. I am currently level 55, so since I am close to the end, I do not want to pause leveling up now, as I always have been below 14 days per level. However, it is still some months until level 60, and I am struggling a lot now. I spend 1-2 hours on WaniKani a day alone, and a lot on Bunpro, other vocab and Japanese class.
I feel like I should slow down and catch up with the growing pile of leeches and get my accuracy up, but I do not want to do so this close to level 60. At the same time, I do not want my accuracy to decline all the way to level 60, since that would mean I would get a lot to clean up at that time.
Everyone I made an effort to know in my Japanese class has either dropped out or is going to, so that is also demotivating. It is difficult to befriend other people when everything is digital.
At the bright side, I finally got together and found a private Japanese teacher, since I really need to practice just speaking with someone. She was really nice and I will have weekly sessions with her.
Go you! on finding a teacher, and getting so far in WK already.
It does sound like you need to do some leech training. i think when accuracy drops to far, WK could start feeling like a horrible treadmill which doesnât go anywhere. and thatâd be horribly demotivating. with two or three months still to go, i probably wouldnât wait with leeches.
what iâve found super motivating is reading for fun. chose something you really like, perhaps the manga to your favourite anime, and just go for it. it was super painful to get started for me, and itâs still really hard, but even after just two weeks it feels like like my comprehension is coming together much stronger. and by reading for fun it takes japanese outside of something iâm learning and makes it a RL skill ^^
This is indeed a warning signal and itâs no wonder you feel frustrated. If I were you, I would spend time on leech squashing, if only to get review numbers down + feeling less frustrated about getting the same items wrong repeatedly. Even just reviewing them all once should help you push the easier ones up from apprentice and guru and into master and Enlightened instead. With the more persistent leeches youâll have to do multiple reviews in a short time-span for them to stick.
You also do a lot of other stuff besides WK. You say you donât wanna slow down leveling, but perhaps consider slowing those other things down to get back on track with WK?
Finally, are you using any scripts to help you, such as the Shin WaniKani Leech Trainer, Item Inspector and the Self-Study Quiz? If not, start by installing them all and make full use of the ability to study your leeches specifically and rebuild your confidence in your ability to remember the items.
The Item Inspector together with the Self-Study Script allows you to target batches of leeches.
The Shin Wanikani Leech trainer is more geared toward interference and confusing/similar looking kanji and vocab. They compliment each other.
Though there is a similar feature in Item Inspector as well in the latest update, I do like how the Shin wanikani Leech trainer test you on 10 leeches and throws other items at you. If you get stuff wrong, then youâll just have to do it again to squash that particular leech. That makes it slower to go through the leeches, but also weeds out exactly the type of problems you might have had with similar looking items.
Youâre level 55, that says a lot about your ability to progress and your motivation to learn Japanese, and it sounds like youâre doing a lot besides WK to try further your Japanese.
Iâm only level two, but my advice would be to take a breather and focus on the things youâre struggling with, nothing more demotivating than having the same kanji / vocab pop-up over and over constantly getting it wrong is dreadful!
I feel like I should slow down and catch up with the growing pile of leeches and get my accuracy up, but I do not want to do so this close to level 60.
Level 60 isnât everything! Itâs more important that youâre confident that you have learned the language properly. Level 60 will come eventually anyway right? itâs not a race. I think personally itâs more important to get rid of those leeches, and if youâre struggling to remember things that have been burned there are userscripts to study those again!
Congrats! I happy for you. I donât feel itâs too much to do a couple of sessions when I have energy and time, and it helps a lot with those items that you struggle with. They just need that little bit of extra work. Good luck! You can do it!
Happy Easter!
Looks like it is working very well.
I happy for you. I donât feel itâs too much to do a couple of sessions when I have energy and time, and it helps a lot with those items that you struggle with. They just need that little bit of extra work. Good luck! You can do it! 