If you donât do anything with it, yeah. But the only reason I can read the books, play the games, and have the conversations I have is because of WK. So I think its practical.
If you know grammar and vocab already, then you are off to a great start. WaniKaniâs purpose is kanji, Iâm assuming thatâs what youâre missing, WaniKani should be helpful to you.
As for relying, just make sure you reinforce what you learn from WaniKani by reading. It seems to me that you are ready to go to native content if you havenât already.
I donât know what you mean by native kanji, but yes, all the kanji in WK is kanji Japanese people use every day. Some might be less common.
It doesnât seem you know a lot about the language or what your friend means, but I wouldnât worry about it for now. WK is a great starting place for learning kanji, not vocabulary, so if thatâs what you want, then go ahead.
A lot of Japanese people seem to not like WK because of the vocab selection, but thatâs just secondary to kanji. And itâs not bad anyway.
Maybe your friend just doesnât like the system, which is fair, but youâre using it, not them, so as long as youâre ok with it.
I know alot of the language already, Im just here to ask about the wanikani its self, im just curious to find out on your properctive and if this is practical or if this is not practical
Not sure what you mean, but by native content I mean to say go read novels, manga, or whatever you want. This content will have kanji used daily by the Japanese. WaniKani has this kanji, thatâs what makes WaniKani useful, it teaches you the kanji you need to know to read.
You know a good amount of Japanese which is great, but if you cannot read kanji, itâs a huge bottleneck.
Itâs not practical if thatâs all one is using to learn Japanese. WaniKani is an app for learning kanji and some vocab to reinforce them, so if kanji are something you need to learn and WKâs system works for you, then, yeah, Iâd say itâs pretty practical.
And as for context not making sense, um, itâs kind of helpful to have some knowledge to understand the context when you get it, so I think itâs fine for the example sentences and whatnot to be a little wacky? Truly seeing kanji and vocab in context would be in native content such as books, and WKâs supposed to help you get a foot in the door so that you can start reading, which is where youâll get that proper context and learn the nuance that WK might not necessarily teach you.
Native speakers also apparently donât like WK because the order it teaches kanji âisnât rightâ and the radicals âarenât right,â but the thing is, WK isnât made for native speakers, itâs made for adult learners. We learn languages differently as adults than we do as children, and we learn second languages differently than we learn our native one(s)!
Yes. When you reach level 16, you will know all of the N5 kanji. When you reach level 27 you will know all of the N4 kanji. When you reach level 51, you will know all of N3 and N2 kanji. And by level 60 you will know 79.06% of N1 kanji.
Do you mean are the kanji practical to learn? Yes. WK teaches most of the jouyou kanji and I think a few outside of it, and in teaching you them it also teaches you how to pick up kanji on your own. Some of the vocab choices may be questionable, and so are some of the radical names, but the kanji are mostly all ones youâre likely to come across in native content