I recently had a very intense several weeks. I live in Tokyo, and I went to India to visit six universities in four different cities for work. (I am a physicist.) I had to give one or two talks at each university. Prior to the trip, I had to prepare for the talks and the logistics of the travel. It was a very intense work time for me. During the last few days in India, I got sick. After the trip to India, I had to recover, both health wise and work wise catch up. So during the whole month, I did not do any reviews on WaniKani. Today, I got back to it, and I have over 360 reviews! Help! It is scary. I did not do well on the first 20 reviews.
5 Likes
Thereâs not really much else you can do but brute force your way through them. Iâve had similar situations and thatâs what I do. Donât worry about accuracy. You will make them back up. Thatâs the purpose of the SRS after all. It might seem intimidating at first but soon youâll get through it. Glad youâre feeling better and good luck!
P.S. Also if you donât want to do them all in one sitting, take breaks. Set a certain amount you want to get done and then get that amount done. I had to remove from about 2500 words at some point. I set that I wanted to get 500 done each day. It took me about 2 weeks but I eventually caught up. Also, donât do any more lessons until youâre caught up.
4 Likes
Thank you for the mental support!
1 Like
Firstly: how frustrating that you go sick during such very busy times! Glad that youâre feeling better now.
I definitely agree with cgsmith on this. Not saying that it isnât frustrating to get mistakes and red screens, but WK isnât grading you on your errors - weâre here to learn kanji.
Being out of the loop for four weeks will have messed with the SRS of quite some items, so especially newer ones that could have done with a timely refresh might not have stuck well.
Iâd also be careful about doing it all at once. If many things are iffy in your memory, your apprentice queue might bloat a lot, and then youâd be doing quite a lot of reviews for a few weeks. I personally like my apprentice pile around 100, but everyone is different, of course.
Best of luck getting caught up - if you forewarn yourself that you might get frustrated at times in the next few weeks, Iâm sure youâll be back on track in no time! If you could learn them once from scratch, you can relearn them, too.
4 Likes
Thank you for the support. As you suggested, I will be doing a small fraction of reviews each day until I claw my way back to where I was. Thank you.
1 Like
Similar situation for me, went to Japan and Korea on vacation for about 2 weeks and forgot to put vacation mode on and came back to 400+ reviews. First week was discouraging but you get back into the groove.
What I would do is 70 at a time, once in the morning, once in the afternoon and once at night.
For me, the first day was truly hell, and discouraging because of getting so many wrong answers. All the kanji looked so foreign too. Today, which is the second day, I am starting to feel better after the first round of reviews. I think things will continue to improve for me.
1 Like
I got 450 reviews for waiting 3 days so while I may not have gone 4 weeks without study, I can give the advice that itâs probably best to do many reviews per day. I think when i hit 450, I did 250 one day and then 200 the next (I still had like 120 reviews from the previous days, but 120 reviews per day is almost normal for me).
I donât have much experience to give in the realm of accuracy though, but here are my thoughts. I am going to suggest something morally questionable. Because most of the items youâll be getting wrong are apprentice, I donât think it would be a terrible idea to cheat so long as you know one part (reading or meaning). From apprentice 1 to 2 or 2 to 3, I donât think thereâs much sense in flubbing all of them. And by cheating, youâre still refreshing by looking at it and keeping in mind âI had to look this upâ, so it will actually stick better I think.
You can do it! As others have said, donât stress about accuracy. Trust the SRS and take it in chunks if that makes it easier.
Youâll be surprised about how easily you can get back to normal so long as you tackle the reviews and donât let them escalate further.
This topic was automatically closed 365 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.