Welcome to my Japanese study log. I post updates on my Japanese studying progress, mostly WaniKani. I hope to use this log to document my learning journey and see how far I’ve come.
Who are you?
Hello!
You can call me Rinse. I enjoy learning languages and I’m very interested in linguistics. I’m a native speaker of Korean and English. I’m currently studying Japanese and Mandarin, but I hope to learn more languages (Egyptian Arabic, Thai) in the future. I started learning Japanese because I wanted to learn a new language and I’d had a mild interest in it for a while, along with consuming Japanese media.
I started using WaniKani on June 05 2020, which is roughly the same time I started learning Japanese. My favorite part of Japanese is definitely Kanji so if you’d ever like to discuss with me on that I would be happy to! That being said I’m very socially awkward so please bear with me.
Goals
‣ reach level 40 on wanikani at a steady pace (15-20 days per level)
‣ review all current material learned on kaniwani
‣ studying more japanese grammar
‣ reading more japanese media
‣ improving listening comprehension
‣ learn important non-kanji vocab and words not on wanikani
If you do under 8 a level you’re gonna burn out big time. Likely around level 15.
The more kanji you learn the more you’ll start confusing them with other kanji, and also the less progress you’ll feel like you’re making since they’re going to be less and less common.
I mean, you can speedrun if you want but it’s not a great idea TBH.
As you can see, I really just slacked off today… However, I did finish my 100+ reviews, but mostly because I was not looking forward to waking up to 200+ reviews…
The biggest problem is that if you go too fast at the start you’ll not only increase your workload in the short term, but also in the long term. Even after slowing down the items from the earlier levels you did fast will still continue popping up in reviews, which may lead to a flood of reviews.
That begin said if you have enough motivation and free time speedrunning can work, I’ve been doing it for quite a while and I’m fine. Just be wary of the consequences.
