Hello Guys. After reading many positive reviews about Wanikani, I have decided to join the bandwagon and use it as my day to day tool to learn Japanese. Is this course helpful to use along the minna ni nihongo course books? (as my course will be using these during the first year).
Yes. Finishing like 5 levels, and remembering vocabs will be easier. This app helps a lot in remembering vocab pronunciation, especially Jukugo.
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how many lessons should i do each day if i want to remember them in the best way? this is the most lessons ive had all at one time
That’ll be different for everybody. Best thing you can do is experiment and see what works for you.
How many lessons you do isn’t really relevant; what is important is to know how many reviews you can handle and try to restrict the number of apprentice and guru items based on that.
Hmmm… I disagree somewhat… Some people can only remember so much at one time. There’s no point in doing lessons beyond that threshold if you’re certain you won’t do well with the first round of reviews.
@jamaldawolf I’d recommend 20 a day - it’s not max speed but you would still level up every 12-14 days if your accuracy is high. More if you know you can handle it and like higher volumes of reviews. I know some people like to split the level-up lesson pile evenly across 2 or 3 days as well.
You should have some idea at your current level about how much new information you can handle at once.
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I am new here and am not understanding anything
I am not new here and am not understanding anything either
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Sometimes when I answer correctly on Wanikani I get a red down arrow despite being correct for kanji to meaning ( when there are 3 + meanings) anyone know why it does this?
Did you get the same kanji wrong at some point earlier in the review, or answer something wrong but leave the review session unfinished and then return later? If you get something wrong at any point it’ll go down even if you get it right later, as long as you complete both halves of the review within 2 hours.
Nope, I get them correct all the time. I did make an ‘error’ once with 下 and wrote した instead of か or げ. But sometimes it does with 上 too but havnt made any errors. This goes down even of my current lesson review is at 100pc…
Can you take a screencaps to document it somehow? No offense intended, but 9 times out of 10 when we get complaints about a bug in this topic it’s user error or a misunderstanding and not a never-before-seen bug. You could be the one out of 10, but the dev team will need more info to document it if that’s the case.
Well, you wouldn’t be marked wrong for that. It would just shake and tell you it’s asking for the onyomi.
As noted, that could happen if, for instance, you made a mistake on a kanji, then didn’t finish the review session, then came back later and got it right. You’d see 100% for that review session but the prior mistake would knock it down. It could be easy to forget you did that if it was an incomplete session.
New here have you found this program to be worth your money and why?
I got every question right on the kanji section of the JLPT N1 because of WK. Unfortunately, it’s not a large section (less than 10% of the test), but that’s one less thing to worry about.
@Firehousecity, welcome to Wanikani. I suggest you spend some time looking at the small circle on the bottom right corner of each member’s avatar. The number inside the circle indicates which of the 60 levels, we are currently studying.
Blue circles mean that we have a time limited (monthly or yearly) subscription. Pink circles mean we have a lifetime subscription. Yellow circles mean we have reached level 60. The white circle, like yours, means the member does not have a paid subscription.
It would be reasonable to think that if the system was not worth paying for, we would have moved on to something else. I hope that you notice that many of us have found value in the system because we have stayed with it.
How long did it take you to reach that level?
1 year and 38 days. There’s a stats site where you can check that sort of thing.
Hey, Leebo is a legend on leveling up.
Finishing wanikani takes around 1 and half to 2 years. Still, you’ll be learning at a way faster pace than Japanese learn in school.
Hello, I recently started WaniKani and completed the first two levels. I noticed that for the first two levels, the reviews for the radical and kanji (and also vocabulary) came after 1~3 hr, 4 hr, 8 hr and one day, before reaching guru level, so it took at least 3.5 days to complete a level (guruing radicals and kanji). Now that I reached level 3 I get the reviews in time gaps of 4 hr, 8 hr, one day and 3 days, So the minimum time to complete a level is now 9 days. Before subscribing I just wanted to make sure, is it gonna be like this for the rest of the levels?
Also, I heard something about a discount coupon, is there one that currently available?
Yes, levels 1 and 2 are accelerated. The minimum time to complete most levels (except some short ones at the end) is 6 days 20 hours.
There’s a discount code you can get by being a Textfugu lifetime member.