First I want to thank for this great thread: [https://community.wanikani.com/t/my-journey-of-368-days-the-ultimate-guide-for-wk/]. I learned a lot from it!
That said and finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel for whom it may concern I will talk a bit about my way of concentrating on Kanji with less empasis on vocabulary. After some levels (About 10) I found that I couldnât keep up with doing kanji and vocabulary with a rate giving me an acceptable date for level 60 to be able to imagine that I could persevere. So I decided to go all out with turbo leveling with some helpers: Reorder Ultimate, Progress Plus and a retry script.
And believe me. Even then it costs me I estimate about two hours a day (YMMV) with some additional nagging by my wife why Wanikani is so important to me. So itâs important for me that it doesnât become a neverending story. After Iâm through with kanji I plan to go on with vocabs more leisurely. Or learning them by reading online with one of these Japanese plugins. Ideal would be one which also is giving me a link to Wanikani for online text. Anybody knows whether such beast already exists? Otherwise I probably must try to extend one of them.
So now my current status. As I expect only fast levels now going for 60 I hope to finish yet in October.
Satori Reader can be set to your Wanikani level (so you see all the kanji youâve learned, everything else hiragana or with furigana, I think). There is a review by the Tofugu team here.
At 53 I got a âYour lesson session has timed outâ problem. I suppose I have too many pending vocab lessons and reorder for level up didnât work any more. Nevertheless vocab lessons still sort of worked.
On Android âFlaming Durtlesâ reordering came to the rescue. Nevertheless I lost a week.
Lessons: 4300
So far Iâm on track with 10 vocab lessons a day except for a little review backlog. But last week was hard. Normal working days, multiple evenings with meetings, caring for ill family members, âŚ
In addition to the backlog I didnât manage to do more than some negligible reading of other sources how I had planned originally.
RL was hard the last couple of weeks. But now Chrismas time is coming with less evening meetings. So I guess to be able to catch up.
Iâm still doing 10 vocab lessons a day to whittle them down constantly.
In April I plan to go to Japan again. Until then I hope to be able to read more of what I will encounter there
For me sticking with it is important. It gives me a deadline when I will be finished (Measly 410 days ATM ) And the reviews didnât grow out of bounds the last weeks. So all is fine.
Wait, is that really yours? Are you one of the vocabulary skippers?
Seriously though Iâm kind of interested in the result, have you started doing some reading? How is it without the WK vocab? Were you just doing vocab another way? Also do you plan on doing vocab now? Sorry for all the questions⌠I had only heard about the notorious âvocab skippersâ, never met oneâŚ
Temporary skipper! Currently at 22. Ten lessons/day. Still 800 enlightened kanji.
Want to start reading with the help of a popup tool. Still not decided on what (News, LN, web novel or all of them). Ask me again in four weeks how itâs working out.
Also reading a little booklet âIllustrated Japanese Charactersâ for reviewing kanji.
I will! Although it would probably take 2-3 months to see the results.
While my lv is lower I think Iâll still advice you to check out bunpro.jp
for grammar (and an additional review / exposure of vocabulary in context) + one of the easy Anki core decks (2k or 4k).
That is my plan for starting to read (lv N4 at Bunpro, + Lv 25 on WK + one of the core decks on Anki should be enough to join one of the book clubs). And reading is my first goal.
Keep doing the WK vocab and wait for me at the finishing line after you finish all vocab. I promise it wonât be a long wait Iâll edit this out if I slow down
Have you considered Torii instead of Anki? Itâs mostly free i think, has a WK mode that excludes vocab taught on WK, and a kana only vocab mode, which is great because WK doesnât teach kana only vocabulary.
But of course Anki is solid.
Sounds good. I started learning kanji October 2018. Before I knew some kana and some simple words. In April I will visit Japan for three weeks. This will be an interesting checkpoint. About 18 months of intensive learning of Japanese. Being I guess at WK30 for vocabs.
I donât plan at the moment to pay for a grammar online tool. Do your really think you need a SRS tool for grammar? Letâs see what I can get from âA dictionary of basic Japanese grammarâ I got for my birthday from good old paper.
Otherwise I think of trying to read online Japanese texts with e.g. rikaikun or yomichan. I will try to add WK links to such a tool so I can also access all the stuff I added to the WK reading and meaning notes.
So at least thatâs the plan. As long as RL doesnât interfer by limiting my day to 24 hours
And if I want to work on talking I can ask a Japanese friend. Either e.g. by Skype or perhaps under four eyes. About two and a half hours away by car.