I’m not exactly new and don’t know whether the questions fits here best but I didn’t want to create a new thread for this.
Is there an API to get an overview of your reviews you just did, like WK provided back in the day?
No.
And it’s been a fair point of contention around here.
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Thank you for the information, that’s too bad! I feel like it’s such a basic and useful feature to have.
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So, am I right that when I reach a new level it is best to learn new radicals and kanji first to unlock things and leave all the new vocabulary (plus whatever was left of last level’s vocabulary) for after that? That’s not the order it offers me new lessons if I don’t use the lesson picker, but I swore I read somewhere that was a good strategy.
I do it that way, if you meant doing all radicals and kanji of your current level while doing the vocabulary of the last level.
Ie. if I’m level 18 I’m also doing the vocabulary of level 17 and make sure to finish them before I eventually start with level 19’s radicals and level 18’s vocab.
“Best” as in “level up the fastest with Vanilla WK”? Yes.
Doing radicals first right away is probably best, yes.
But apart from those, I guess it depends how you plan to go about it.
If going “full speed” (doing most/all the available lessons as soon as possible) then yes, prioritize kanji.
If you plan to do a set amount of lessons each day and are not too worried about leveling up ASAP, it’s probably best to mix kanji with vocab. Just think about how long you want the level to take you, split the total kanji in the level based on the desired “duration” of the level and fill up the rest of the lesson batch with vocab - maybe even handpicking the vocab you do each day.
The vocab is there to reinforce readings of the kanji you’ve learned, so it might be a good idea to spread all vocab associated with a particular kanji over multiple days, to get more repetition.
Cool. I was thinking that strategy was more for people trying to go full speed ahead and min max. I’m not really in a hurry, and I don’t think I’ll ever run out of stuff to do. I’m only doing 5-10 lessons a day. I find the vocab a bit easier than the kanji too. At level 2 I slowed down to 5 a day working through kanji and picked back up to ten-fifteen when I got to vocab, so maybe the best bet is to mix vocab and kanji to balance my workload.
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This might be a bit of a ‘how long’s a piece of string?’ question, but what’s a good review accuracy percentage to try and maintain?
I’m a bit of a perfectionist and want to make sure i’m not being too hard on myself.
Thanks,
R
I do think this is a bit of a “How long’s a piece of string” question, but I can share my thinking with you in case it helps. First, since kanji and vocabulary have two parts, anything over two thirds accuracy (1 mistake for two correct answers) means that the average level of items is still moving up. This means that as long as you are hitting at least that level of accuracy, you’re still making progress, even if it is slow. Mistakes are also part of the process, and so aiming for 100% perfection is not ideal either: the process Wanikani uses relies on forcing us to remember right before we would forget, which means sometimes things will inevitably be forgotten.
There’s a trade off here as well: the fewer mistakes you’re willing to make, the slower you’ll progress. This isn’t inherently a bad thing, because moving too quickly will result in crazy guru and master reviews in the future, which is another factor that needs to be considered.
With that said, what I’ve settled on is a goal of 80-90%, but this is a personal choice, and really there’s a very wide range that can be justified.
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Hi, I notice some acronyms not sticking for me even after ~10 days seeing them here and there in the daily review. I didn’t have this issue with others, just the -ka kanji for days. Any advice for remembering 二日三日六日七日八日, etc？
Thanks
I’m afraid that’s one of those areas that works best to just memorize by heart. And yes, it’s very confusing if you don’t come from a language which has two counting systems intermixed!
It’s very worthwhile to do though, because they’re used a lot. The good part is that when you have the basic ones down, the other ones will fall into place. I will say that I found them easier to learn by studying them separately than rely on WaniKani alone to introduce them with the Kanji. It’s much less confusing if you already know these words since there’s many exceptions! (Or at least what feel like exceptions at a beginner level)
So, take your time and learn these basic ones by heart:
- 1-10 (plain number)
- 1-10 things
- 1-10 days
- 1-3 people
I used the Genki flash cards for this, but there’s tons of resources that can help you with this:
source: https://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-characters.html
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I don’t know if this will help. I told myself a little story as a mnemonic. All about visiting my Aunt Sue. Aunt Sue is now my go-to for つ.
Day 1: tsuitachi - to meet aun “t sue I [take a] tachi”.
Day 2: futsuka - I stay over. She has a pond in which I dangle my feet and two footsucker fish nibble them.
Day 3: mikka - I take a short break in the middle of the journey on day three as mi kar needs a rest - mikka
Day 4: yokka - next day I take yo kar, but that’s no better and also needs a rest in the middle - yokka
Day 5: itsuka - it’s u kar again. No rest breaks today or ever again. 5 cheers for day 5! itsuka
Day 6: muika - rather than rest, “I” push the car in the middle of the journey past six cows, each going moo. Moo i kar.
Day 7: nanoka - took a really really really small car today (cheapest rental), but no need to rest again. 7 cheers!
Day 8: youka - on day eight I get a huge U-haul or a you-ka
Day 9: kokonoka -nine coconuts on the back seat
Day 10: tooka - can’t drive a ka today as I have a deformed big toe [not to or tou, but to-o] ka. Luckily I have ten toes, and my Aunt Sue is feeling better.
(I use break/rest to remind me of little tsu that creates a break in the reading and a doubled consonant. So I know that’s only on days three and four. Big means to extend the vowel. Deformed means unusual spelling. Here its とお rather than the more common とう.)
It hasn’t been 100% successful. Day one only handles one reading (the tough one). Days eight and ten were a bit of a struggle and I probably should update accordingly. However, it’s been good enough so I haven’t needed to. Perhaps write your own ten day story that resonates for you.
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Thank you for the thoughtful comments, they are motivating me to work harder to memorize them. I will do my best.
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