After searching in the forum, I now have given all the radicals the same synonym. But after one round of review, I still have to wait couple of hours for the next round of review…until the kanjis are eventually unlocked? Is there any way to also skip the waiting between radical and kanji? (Just to …

I don’t know how fluent you are in Chinese, but you will absolutely be shooting yourself in the foot when you come across kanji that you don’t know when you don’t; you won’t be able to follow along the mnemonics. You can certainly make your own mnemonics based on your radical knowledge now, but at t…

Thank you all for your kind response! I totally agree with the methodology of learning the radicals first, it’s also how we learned as kids in school. I tried not skipping the radicals at first, but I found myself asking “what’s the use of memorizing the so-called radical ‘leaf’, it’s just the strok…

[image] Amelia_W: Just to clarify, my native language is Chinese [image] MeowMashiro: I don’t know how fluent you are in Chinese How fluent are you in English? :thinking:

Clearly not very fluent. :man_facepalming:

As a native Chinese speaker, you can probably recognize the rough meaning of most Kanji already. But can you read traditional Chinese? You probably know that Japanese Kanji are less simplified than Chinese Hanzi. The radicals will be part of stories to remember the Kanji and their readings, and are…

by the way, here’s a simple solution, if you decide to ignore the warnings: [image] Can I remove Radicals? I don’t necessarily recommend skipping the radicals, but if you really want to, feel free to install my autofill script: WaniKani Autofill Radicals . It will show the right answer automatica…

I cannot forget all the old radical names everytime I go to type in the new name, I already typed in the old one🙄

I know this will probably sound stupid, but here’s my thought: Japanese is not Chinese. I know, they have some of the same characters, some of the same readings, etc., but it’s a fundamentally different language, and it might be helpful to just treat it as such. Some of your knowledge will carry …

I think the OP is aware of that. They’re just saying they don’t need to learn the shapes, and that’s the main use of WaniKani radicals.

Yes, but in Japanese, radicals are named differently (even the actual linguistic ones), and the unique names Wanikani gives them kind of reinforces this fact. It’s kind of like if I, as a native English speaker, were to try to learn Spanish. It’s just close enough to English for me to think I can …

Skipping radicals (probably for the 100,000th time already)

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by the way, here’s a simple solution, if you decide to ignore the warnings:

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Skipping radicals (probably for the 100,000th time already)

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