How is it looking @pensei ? 
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My uncle married a German woman, and they have a daughter. They live in Germany, but he speaks to her in English, and her mom speaks to her in German. She’s very young, but so far is perfectly bilingual! I bet/hope the same will be true for your daughter.
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I wonder if raising a child trilingual would work, or if there’s too little exposure to the different languages 
Probably something I should google to get objective and definitely scientific answers 
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I expected there to be a team 
to choose from, now I will have to hide my disappointment. 
I started doing lessons again this week. The chance of making it to 60 until the olympics is still alive! (partially motivated by @GrumpyPanda‘s spreadsheet; I just love spreadsheets…).
Also, @pensei have you watched Shirokuma Café? I’m not an expert on anime related topics since it is the only anime that I managed to watch more than two episodes of (all except the last one, didn’t want it to end) but penguin-san is just the best. A slightly depressed penguin who doesn’t handle alcohol well, falls in love and tries to take his driving license, among other things. What more does one need. Just to add to the list of penguin related anime recommendations 
Keep up the ganbatting everyone. Olympics, here we come!
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Oh @FennelFox! That’s such a cool story to hear. It makes me really happy to hear that your uncle’s daughter is speaking both languages well so far! I’ll bet my little one will be correcting my おかしい文法 (ぶんぽ) before I know it! Haha.
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Well… I grew up in a Croatian house where that was the primary language that my parents spoke. I can still understand it, but have no need to use it as there is no one to talk to any more in Croatian. My sister suggested teaching my daughter Croatian as well, but I think it’s not very useful, as she has no relatives to use it with and I honestly think a third language would be too much for her little one year old brain. Lol.
Japanese is my 3rd language, even tho the 2nd one is only stored in the back of my brain for now.
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Argh…
Well, but I managed to get a new job and was able to quit my current stressful job with my constantly angry boss, so I got that going for me which is nice…
But well WaniKani…
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Slowing down is alright, as long as you keep going °~°/
I’ll probably be slowing down from 21 to 14 lessons/day starting tomorrow, so I’ll be going at 12 days/level for a while. Life’s always getting in the way of learning scribbles…
Plenty of time for you to keep up with me :b
Congratz on the new Job 
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You can always edit your team to be team if you want 
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Oh look, a use for my degree on the internet!
Kids are generally little sponges for language, so it’s definitely possible to raise a trilingual child. You’d have to expose them to all three languages as much as possible from the very start though - babies are born listening out for all sounds in all languages, but after about six months they’ll have figured out which sounds are in the languages they’re being exposed to, and they’ll start ignoring the rest. So, for example, if they think they don’t need Language #3, they’ll stop being able to properly distinguish sounds in that language (or, at least, the ones that don’t exist in either Language #1 or Language #2). There’s even evidence that suggests babies prefer listening to languages that they heard while they were still in the womb (since they can sort of hear intonation patterns in there, which are pretty distinctive between languages) so the earlier you start exposing, the better!
The tricky part is convincing the kid that they still should learn and use all three languages once they’re old enough to start figuring out that maybe they only need maybe one or two in their environment. If it’s easier to learn and speak one language over another, because there’s more exposure to it and more speakers of it around, then the kids will understandably focus on what’s easier and ignore the rest. One quirky example of this is the guy who tried to teach his son Klingon, and only spoke Klingon to him while the mother spoke only English. You can probably guess how that story ends, but I’ll let you google it
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Congratulations on your new job!
It’s okay to go slow if you need to with WK. Even tho we all call it a race, it’s not, the pace is up to you. It’s better to slow down than burn out. We want you to stick with us, even if that means slowing down. Look after yourself.
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Thanks for that! Very interesting.
my little one is listening. Lol.
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Hi all! How is the WKing going?
I had a little breakdown today after getting 支店 wrong a couple of times and legitimately not being able to decide if “office branch” or “branch office” sounds more natural to me. 
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That Klingon story, wow.
@Lids I’m in sky with you now. 
Isn’t it funny that when I was thinking of which team to join instead when “forest” got gutted into “plant”, I actually looked and sky and thought that was a good other option but didn’t want to commit too quickly this time!
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I wasn’t going to do new WK lessons today, I’ve been too busy doing other things (one of them reading Japanese graded readers). But then I needed to add my class vocabulary to Torii and noticed that two of the words had kanji from my current level and they were already unlocked but I hadn’t done their lessons yet. So I did, and then I had to add a corresponding amount of vocabulary, right? So I ended up doing 2 kanji + 6 vocab lessons. (I do 3 vocab lessons for every kanji, yeah, won’t be leveling up as quick, but I’ll also learn the vocab more with the corresponding kanji.)
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You can always put both in the synonyms if you get it wrong but it doesn’t really change anything meaning-wise.
@MissDagger maybe I should come into the sky team with you as well, my precious phoenix got gutted into fire 
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I’m still level one, but I’d love to join to keep me motivated!
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Well, I think the phoenix is a great symbol for sky if we want it. It is a bird after all. 
Plus the sun is in the sky and it is hot and burning. Great birds always makes me think of the sky.
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You might be better served joining with Race to 60! December 2020 JLPT instead. Their deadline is about three months later.
At this point you’d have to be faster than 8days/level in average, which is pretty tough for most people unless you have some previous experience with WaniKani/Japanese (Because life happens)
Of course you’re still welcome to join, just wanting to make sure you’re not unknowingly trying to bite of more than you can chew 
@pensei at what point are we going to filter out people that seemingly have dropped out? (and aren’t participating in the thread, those we’d be hunting down with sticks of course)
Seems already like there are some new WaniKani users that didn’t stick around (Not making progress in >2 weeks)
Any ideas how we want to handle those? Maybe I should be tagging the leaderboard police instead @avalia @FennelFox
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I would propose cutting members as soon as they can’t hit the goal with a healthy average level-up speed anymore?
So that way people can be out of the game for a few weeks, as long as they can still make it by deadline we won’t judge. Through that we would also enforce the “don’t burn out with supersonic speed goals”-policy discussed a while ago.
I also think it would be nice to cut members when they had no activity for a given amount of time (a month perhaps?). But that is just impossible in practice. Too many members, no automated system.
So in short:
seems hard to enforce.
Instead maybe check the lower end of the userboard every 3 weeks or so for people that can’t realistically make it anymore.
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