早々 はやばや, そうそう
Two ways of saying and two meanings:
はやばや = (doing something) earlier than expected. E.g. you go home earlier and someone comments へええ、そんなにはやばやですか？
そうそう = immediately after, so (doing something IMMEDIATELY after you finish something). E.g. そうそうにしてください
Wanikani has marked this as AS SOON AS, JUST AFTER, IMMEDIATELY AFTER.
It’s a bit difficult to put into Wanikani fully correct as the kanjicombi is exactly the same, the meanings are just different along with the pronunciation.
If you look at the way they used it in the example sentences, I think it’s そうそう both times. And it should probably include the “early” or “hurriedly” meaning either way.
One sentence has そうそうに, which is a very common way to use it in an adverbial way, where as はやばや doesn’t usually have に after it; it can be an adverb with no particle helping. This usage is basically the exact same meaning as はやばやと. It doesn’t mean “immediately after”, it just means quickly.
The other time it’s as a noun suffix, which is also always そうそう.
So I think they probably weren’t intending to teach はやばや at first, and then someone probably complained when they got the reading wrong and they had already learned はやばや somewhere else, so I’m guessing they added that reading later. But I could be wrong.
そうそう can have either meaning, so I don’t think it’s terribly confusing, at least no more so than any other word you learn here where you should always been checking the usage elsewhere before you try to use it.
I usually do my exercises during the day one the lab sofa while asking for examples from the secretaries. They taught me these examples for both HAYABAYA and SOUSOU.
But I am sure I will forget and confuse these a week later, then be here on the forum asking again what was it again?
Oh, maybe I wasn’t clear, but I was talking about WK’s example sentences and WK’s intentions with the word.
Yeah, I think it’s ok what they teach. It’s also hood that they update the app so that it gets better and better. Btw, Is Wanikani only two years old?
@anon20839864 Is it possible you guys could add the distinction above to the vocab in a future update?
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Why u no have this WK D:
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I asked a friend for this word last week and have already used it 4/5 times in daily conversation. It’s so satisfying to find really useful words like this 
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ヒトカラ
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戦争 (せんそう) - War
Picked it up from an app for reading news in easy japanese.
And then I heard it a few times in Ajin anime so it kinda stayed in my mind.
I usually learn too many new really common words post in this thread but today I learned an interesting one.
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I love the kanji used for this word.
I’ve recently learned:
鎌鼬 (かまいたち)
a yokai (a trio of weasels who appear in a whirlwind to cut their victim)
a cut caused by whirlwind
The latter meaning is what was used in the show I picked it up from…a…very serious show…yes…not Beyblade at all…
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赤十字 - the Red Cross (^^)
かぼちゃ - pumpkin
鞄 (かばん）- bag
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ex: ２兆円 = two trillion yen