My Review of WaniKani after 2 Years

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I bought a lifetime subscription after about a year of using it and I do think it’s probably the best learning resource out there. But there’s a bunch of quirks that kind of drive me NUTS D: so I decided to make a video review haha : D

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Very nice review! Liked the background music :smiley:

  • Agree with Matt’s urine (:man_facepalming: ), but my problem wasn’t really the silliness of the mnemonic, but rather because when I say まつり, I don’t hear anything even remotely close to “Matt’s urine” :stuck_out_tongue: , hence for me those are 2 entirely different things.

  • Good point on mentioning the 1 year thing. We had quite some fiery discussions on this recently.

  • I initially thought that kanji being repeated as radicals isn’t a good idea, but it does play well into the SRS and further enforces already known characters, so I would say that’s fine.

Also, so modest about your English :joy:

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Maplestory music? Instant like for the nostalgia

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WaniKani advertises itself with the notion that you can do all the kanji it teaches in “little over a year” (or some such). I don’t want to start another flaming turtle here, though :stuck_out_tongue: .

ninja’d by @Lahoje

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Well…tbf you definitely can

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heeeeeellllll yeah : D

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Yeah part of why it sounds so dumb is that it doesn’t really fit, and yet it somehow STILL makes it work as a mnemonic for me so well. I don’t know. lol D:

The kanji → radicals thing I didn’t think was like, a gigantic issue, but just seemed kind of unnecessary haha.

Also as far as the English thing I do have a degree in English and Professional Communication so, haha : D

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Okay I’ve only watched the first 20 seconds so far but I already like it

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To be fair to WK I think it’s like a reasonable thing to advertise since the limitation here is less of one with WaniKani and more the concept of learning all the kanji in a year, which WaniKani indirectly teaches you is crazy, but at least for me didn’t discourage me from learning kanji, or using WK, since it becomes rapidly apparent as you use it that it’s probably the best way you’d even be able to even attempt this.

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Now I’ve watched the whole video and man, I really like you and that video, it was really well done :+1:

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I think the one I liked the most so far was for 鮮やか, because I remembered アザ as this really bad Japanglish :joy: Works every time!

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That’s actually one that stood out to me too haha : D

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Thank you friend that means a lot : D

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That was a great video! Not sure how scripted that was, but your ease and style of talking was really engaging. Also, hello fellow Canadian!

Perhaps, the only thing that could have been mentioned is something about grammar.

Keep up the great work!

P.S. Your Naruto-style running B-roll earned you a subscriber, haha.

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I really enjoyed hearing your take :slight_smile: An informative and balanced video about Wanikani.

Also, thank you for featuring the guide! I bet you opted out of saying jprspereiraadshkjhkjshdkjsahdja in the video :stuck_out_tongue:

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It really is a mystery to me how to pronounce your username, but I guess I’m not allowed to complain with my current one :laughing:

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Just call me JP :slight_smile:

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ok will keep that in mind if I ever have to say it for whatever reason in the future : D and thank you for your kind words

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Thank you friend : D Canadians rise up!! The video is 100% scripted, I’m generally really terrible at speaking on the spot haha, I took a public speaking class in university once and I learned that the easiest way to do it was just to script everything I say but try and write as if I’m speaking like a h u m a n

thank you : D i pride myself on my naruto-running technique as the king of weeaboos. (i have a full video of that as my featured channel video LOL)

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