Question to more advanced users

Japanese Language
#1

Hello fellow WaniKani-users,

I am very happy to have progressed to level 5 already in quite a short period of time. I have learned a lot already and I am just wondering about one thing.
Right now, I feel like I have quite a lot in Apprentice and Guru. I often find myself mistaking items ready to be mastered, moving them back to Apprentice. (See image)

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Yesterday I progressed to level 5, and 64 new lessons were waiting for me. I felt a bit overrun as I feel that I should first focus on getting the items to guru+ first before committing to new items.

Question:
Do you do all your new available lessons immediately or do you wait until you’ve cleared more in Apprentice (and or Guru) to move on?

Thanks a lot for the coming replies.
Chris

#2

If you read around on the forums, you’ll see a lot of discussion on this! The most common tip is, do a set number of lessons per day, and keep apprentice below 100 or so items. It will help keep your workload stable, and prevent getting overwhelmed.

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#3

Thank you. Alright well I’ll close this issue then, I will look around. I couldn’t find anything in my quick search.

#4

No people love talking about this! I’d keep it open and see what pops up.

There will probably be somebody along to link My Journey of 368 days (+ The Ultimate Guide for WK :open_book: ) for some more strategy and information!

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#5

I will read it most definitely! Thanks a lot Saida. I’ve been starting all the new lessons asap to get them in the review rotation, but I really like your suggestion to aim to have 100 in apprentice at maximum. I’ll try that for the next couple of weeks.

#6

That Guide is quite long but it’s full of information that will help you figure out how WK works much better :slight_smile: The guide is the 2nd post of that thread (so feel free to skip the main post). For you, I’d recommend reading chapters from 1-8, since they’re most focused on beginner advice.

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#7

I’ve stuck to doing about 10 lessons a day unless there’s radicals available to do then I’ll add those on to the 10 I would already do since later on, you get like ~5 radicals a level and they almost become like mini review for older kanji so it’s not really mentally taxing.

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