I see people saying they’re doing "x lessons a day’
But i don’t have control over that, it seems. They pop up when i get certain Kanji to… guru?
So how are people manifesting this haha
Many people don’t do all of their available lessons at once, but space them out over time.
Say you have 30 lessons available. You could just do all those lessons at once. But then all 30 reviews will come at the same time. So an alternative is to space out your lessons over the next few days. If you decide to do 10 lessons per day, you will finish that pile of lessons in 3 days (10 lessons Monday, 10 lessons Tuesday, 10 lessons Wednesday). If there’s less than 10 lessons available on a day, you do all the available lessons. If there’s no lessons available, you just don’t do any lessons that day.
Ahhh, i see!
I’ve just been doing them as they come up. Maybe I’ll slow it down once burnout creeps up. Going strong for now though
Thanks!
You should slow down before the burnout creeps up. How fast you do lessons now affects how fast the reviews will come back even months into the future. If you go at max speed now, in a couple months when you have guru 2 and master and enlightened reviews you might be doing 200+ reviews a day along with all the new content. If you then feel burned out and slow down, The amount of reviews will still stay high for weeks. And if you’re too burnt out to do those reviews you will start to develop an impossible backlog.
The best and only way to do things in slow and steady. Spacing out your lessons works, limiting lessons to like 15 a day does not slow you down significantly. You can also watch your item counts, I wont accept new lessons unless my apprentice count will stay under 100 items. You could do the same with Guru items, staying under like 300 or so. Or you could just take a few days at the end of a level to clear out your apprentice items. But if you’re worried about burnout you should be pacing yourself now not later.
Appreciate the advice!
Quick question: how do I suggest new translations? Wanikani doesn’t accept “rolling stock” as a translation to 車両.
I’ve never heard that term before, but if it applies you can always add it as a synonym on your account.
“Rolling stock” is a slightly more jargon term in English than 車両 is in Japanese, I think, but it’s the first listed translation for it in JMDICT. wikipedia has an article on it.
I did. Sadly, I can’t use my russian card to pay things, but I asked a foreign friend of mine to use his card so everything is ok now. Btw, sorry for late reply!
No worries! I have been absent from WK for a bit over a month… so glad to hear you got it resolved! : D
I tried searching for the forums… but could not find an answer. The whole campfire category appears locked to me. I can read, but not write anything or answer to any topic. Is there a threshold about how many messages one should have written on the other boards or something like that? Also I see people have written stuff a couple of minutes/hours ago, so the whole category clearly isn’t dead. I’m so confused.
Bit surprised you can’t post. You sure there’s no “reply” buttons anywhere? Can you show us a screenshot of some example post?
The padlock symbol on Campfire means only that it’s not visible to all individuals (in the case of Campfire, it can’t be seen by people who aren’t logged in), not that it’s locked for you (honestly not too sure why a padlock symbol is used for that, but there you have it). If you don’t meet the requirements, you can’t see it at all. If you can see it, you can interact with it.
Oh, thank you for pointing this out. There is a reply button 
I just assumed there wasn’t because of all the lock symbols and didn’t even look for it… But it’s there and it seems to work…
The lock symbol means that those are hidden sections you have access to. Like the level specific one.
Yeah it’s just in my experience not the way the lock symbol is usually used on forums, so I got confused. Perhaps the lock should be an open one when you have access to the stuff, that might be clearer.
Yeah, it’s a bit backwards, but 仕方がない
Why is ふゆ (kun-yomi) the kanji reading for 冬? Shouldn’t it use とう (on-yomi)?
The wanikani team decided for each item, which reading they should use for that, depending on which seemed the more important. This includes both kunyomi and onyomi readings. With 冬, the とう reading is rare, both in terms of number of words using it and in terms of how commonly those words are used. So it makes sense that they went with ふゆ
To add to what was said above, this typically happens when a word has an onyomi that would only make useful compounds with kanji much higher above it.
冬 is a basic kanji that should be taught early. The most common word that uses the onyomi is 冬眠 (とうみん hibernation), which every native Japanese adult knows, but is ranked in the 25,000 range for frequency on jpdb, and uses 眠, which isn’t taught until level 27.
So if they taught とう as the main reading for you to remember, you could burn the kanji, and then have even months more after that before a word worth teaching that could use it would show up.
川 and 犬 are in similar situations, IIRC.
First that came to my mind was 冬季, but that doesn’t even seem to have a number. A bit surprising.
Edit: Looking at Ninjal, 冬季 has five times more occurrences 