My first time posting to the forums! I tend to lurk in the forums more than I post, but I couldn’t seem to find a post mentioning this topic anywhere, so I guess I’ll ask. The levels seem to be grouped into groups of 10 with a header ( 快 PLEASANT, 苦 PAINFUL, etc.) What’s the reasoning behind choosi…

[image] invisi: Is this how they were named originally, or is it a coincidence that the naming of each category lines up like this? Mostly. “Reality” didn’t exist at first - the last ten levels were added later. To be clear, by the way, there’s no particular importance behind the names at al…

(sweating), if I have started burning during Painful, do I have a better chance, statistically, of not quitting? I seriously study about 4 hours a day (okay, I count about 2 hours of watching anime as studying, tee hee. I do watch it without subtitles sometimes, at least.) FYI: I am relearning Jap…

Same story here, studied Japanese 10 years ago. I am focusing on kanji now, the grammar is still good enough to understand what’s going on. So it’s just about the vocabulary and kanji for me. The first 15 levels were a breeze, hardly any new words, I knew many of them already; then it became intere…

POLLantron: Pope Nicolas VI Now, why isn’t this your username??

POLLantron: Reality: thanks to your grammar lessons and all the kanji you’ve learned, now you can read almost anything that the average Japanese person can read I thought in Paraside you are proud of yourself after all this hard work done. Then you’re hit by Reality: Nope, you are still not …

That’s good and scary to hear. I’m already learning lots of new words at level 18-- lots of formal words I never learned, and synonyms for words, so maybe I’m already past “interesting.” Anyway, thanks for your words of encouragement. . Now that I think about it, when I learned Japanese in school,…

I always figured the group names were a reference to Divina Comedia and Dantes’ portrayal of the path through hell to heaven - with a twist. :thinking:

According to this diagram from this thread , there seems to be a significant dropoff at arround 21 - 25: [image] Yeah, I’m feeling the pressure right now, I’m almost 24 and my accuracy went a good chunk down.

Ah, it’s long been believed that there was a sharp drop off around that range, but there was a more recent thread somewhere which looked at the stats in more detail, and found the drop wasn’t all that statistically significant. I’m completely failing to find that thread in the search right now, thou…

If you’re thinking of my scrape of the forums then that graph actually seems to come from there [image] What is the level distribution on here? WaniKani I’m not the best at presenting data, so here is a link to the spreadsheet. Anyone can edit, so if you want to create a …

What? I don’t see a drop off in the 21-25 range…

Reasoning behind level group names?

WaniKani

Kumirei June 16, 2020, 10:19am 19

If you’re thinking of my scrape of the forums then that graph actually seems to come from there

Topic		Replies	Views
Why the levels are named like this? (Pleasant, Painful...) WaniKani	11	1982	January 14, 2022
From Pleasant to Painful WaniKani	7	170	April 25, 2026
Do the level names mean anything? WaniKani	6	904	August 3, 2023
What has been the most frustrating WK level for you so far? WaniKani	53	2347	February 6, 2022
Support group for level 50+ WaniKani	17	1845	March 24, 2020

Reasoning behind level group names?

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