Race to Your Goal! December 2020 JLPT

Welcome!! Glad to have you on board!

Great work! Not half bad at all!

Nice! I updated you.

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Don’t worry about it! It doesn’t actually matter. You can change it if you want, but it doesn’t affect anything. By the way, welcome! Glad to have you!

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I’m over 50 days on level 36, I know the feeling. Keeping up with lessons and reviews now though.

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Thanks! @Saida that makes me feel better.

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That I’m not the only one

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Oh gotcha, thanks!

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If you want you can look in the forums but people have been stuck at a single level multiple times and have made thread discussing their struggles, I think the ā€œmost popularā€ one to get stuck into is lvl 23 but people have been stuck on many different levels. I remember that I was like this at lvl 12 where I couldn’t get a single review/lesson in and I struggled to keep up, I ultimately chose to reset after getting to lvl 13 because I didn’t like the way my board looked but you can power through it.

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Yeah I think most of us have definitely had some ups and downs. All that matters is that you’re learning!

I’ve graduated school now so my schedule is more consistent, hopefully we both can keep it up!

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Also, if you (or anyone else) need someone to talk to, don’t hesitate to send me a message on discord ć‚«ćƒ¬ćƒ¼ć‚¦ć‚½#0006. I’ll try to answer when I can, since I’m very busy, but I always try to have some time to respond to messages.

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I am not exactly sure how to edit, I press the orange button, but then I can’t write anything :c

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You are a member, so you do have editing privileges. You should see something like this after you hit the orange button that looks like a pencil on a paper. There are a bunch of buttons at the top, there’s one that says ā€œEdit Wikiā€ (at the top as well as at the bottom) that will take you to the place where you can actually add yourself.

If that’s not what you get when you click the orange button, can you post a screenshot of what you do see?

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Do you know is there a discord for the group so we can practice actually speaking Japanese?

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I think you can check out this Reddit post for Japanese-learning related servers. I’m not in any of them but I also advise you, if you play videogames like MMORPG (esp FFXIV) to contact guilds made up of Japanese expats in your country/continent. A friend of mine did that and she enjoyed the discussions quite a lot. Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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Added myself! This will be great motivation. I have to average around 9-10 days per level to get to 60 in time.

How do you all plan to study the kanji that isn’t covered on WaniKani? I’m thinking of using the chart on wkstats after each JLPT checkpoint (N5 at level 10, etc.), look them up on Kanji Damage or similar, and make flashcards.

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@FennelFox I tried joining but i am not sure how to add myself in there ā€œ^^ It probably means I dont have a member status but I d like to join. This seems fun

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Yes, since you are a first time user you haven’t achieved member status yet. Can you let us know how much time you spend on your last level? I’ll add you to the leaderboard.
Edit: I also put your goal at 60 for now, let me know where you want to be by then!

Sure! The time spent in the last level I did was 7 days 16 hours. My goal is to reach level 60 too.

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Oh yeah, and I just assumed you’re on level 8. Your badge is updated, right? Added you!

Yea i got to level 8 a day or two ago and I dud get a welcome badge just now. Thanks!

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I’m hoping by that time, I know enough about kanji and mnemonics to make my own flashcards or something similar. But i’ll probably just learn the vocabulary that it’s used in, since those kanji aren’t used a lot.
I might not even learn them all. It all depends on how well my translation job hunting goes and what field I ultimately specialize in.

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