I have just reached level 17 and I have some family/work stuff that has to take priority. I love languages and study them as a hobby, but I have run into a snag a bit. My time is limited with a 3 year old and a new born and I speak French as a second language that I need to keep up. I have also been given the opportunity to learn Spanish for work and now need to continue my German studies as well.
Needless to say I have little time, I am reluctantly giving up wanikani for a period of my life where Iāll have more time. I want to ask for some advice on how the best way to go about this would be?
I was in your situation, I started WK with a less than a year old and a two year old and I think thatās what I liked with Wanikani, I found it very compatible with family life. Like I donāt have time to sit down 1 hour everyday and do a textbook, but I definitely have several times a day 5 minutes where I can do reviews on my phone (with the Android app Flaming Durtles). So I could continue to do Wanikani while being pretty busy with the family.
Now that the kids are bigger I do have time to sit down one hour everyday, it was long to wait to get to that stage, but thanks to WK, the wait was āusedā and now I have a solid kanji knowledge and that makes all the rest easier
For the other languages, if itās about maintaining them, I would suggest podcasts while you are out and about. And for studying, maybe get a teacher so you have a specific time where you can be out of the house / study online alone.
Yeah, Iām thinking along similar lines to Akasheila.
Rather than take a break from studying Japanese, why not just cut back substantially? Even if you only do, say 10 reviews a day, thatās still progress ā not the progress you want, surely, but something is better than nothing, Iād say.
Iād like to add that if you donāt do any lessons the reviews tend to cut back very quickly. So it might be possible that instead of aiming to do all your lessons all the time or 15 lessons a day you aim for 15 lessons a week or 1 lesson a day or 5 lessons any time you have 5 minutes.
You could do what Iāve been doing, and just put it on vacation mode every few days so the reviews donāt pile up. Life happens but doing what you can here and there is likely more beneficial than stopping entirely
