Ha, I don’t post much in the forum, thought I do quite a bit of lurking. But your post got me all emotional and such. So I wanted to congratulate you on the good work.
I only got my first burned item today so it feel like I have heaps ahead of me, but it’s nice to see what the end of the line looks like and have something to aspire to.
Great stuff! おめでとう！ 
Congratulations! 
I’m looking at your study report and it took you 2 days to complete 10th level 
. Did you set alarms for reviews? 
thank you! What about the July test?
thank you!
thank you! first burning item is quite a memorable moment for me. it happened at level 14 for me, quite something to celebrate for~~
あーかわいぃぃぃぃ
Thank you, 駅長さん！
well I really don’t remember but back then it was kinda possible to go that fast I think.
and no I have never woken up in midnight to do reviews lol (but I know someone who is specialised @MegaZeroX )
omg we have never been called triplets before but I love it 
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I haven’t been as active as I was before but it’s amazing to see you reach level 60 already!!! OMEDETOU!!!
Enjoy the cake!! 
thank you!
I’m waiting for you with a tomato salad (including a touch of lemon) when you reach 60 xD
thank you! What about the July test?
Sadly, where I live the test is only done once a year. I wanted to try last year but you know, pandemic pretty much killed that. Was going to target N5 in 2020, but hoping now to aim for N3. Might play safe and do N4…
Hey! Congratulations! Im sure I havent been anticipating this as much as you but ohhhhh i was looking forward to your level 60!!! Super congrats!!!
Kind of a shock to see how few people make it to level 60. Proud of @aanhlle for bumping it up one more! Hope to see you in that special group sometime soon. Congrats again.
Most people give up their language learning goals within a couple months for any language. And people continue to quit as time goes on.
And Japanese likely has a higher quitting date than most languages due to the difficulty.
Makes sense but with a lifespan of 10 years one would expect more than 1800 odd people over that time. Its knly roughly 180 people a year who finish. But, that may be a function of poor marketing on wanikanis behalf (not many new customers a larger base equals more people) and a pack of other country language support which might possibly branch their market. Ive lamented this before. They could likely market it to language schools and colleges in japan and elsewhere with package deals for schools, etc. But i cant help but notice those opportunities (mba)
I teach lower level japanese, or did, and now recommend wanikani as its the best way ive ever found to pick up kanji. I actually worked it into my tutoring syllabus as required.
I suppose its true Japanese ia difficult but it seems more appropriate to say perceived difficulty. Japanese outside of kanji is refresingly simple. It is harder for english speakers but has phonetic pronunciation which is helpful and relatively simple grammar. On a personal level as a dyslexic Japanese os easier for me in a lot of ways.
But you make sense.and your point well taken.
Over 85000 users likely represents a a large segment of the English speaking world that tried to learn Japanese in the past 10 years. One has to note that there are only a little over 1.2 billion English speakers in the world. If 1/10000 tried to learn Japanese then that would represent 75% of them. I assume more have tried to learn, but I can’t imagine more than 1/1000 people have tried to learn Japanese. Only 2% -3.5% watch anime, which probably accounts for at least 1/2 of the learners in the west. 1 in 50 anime watchers trying to learn Japanese seems too high to me. And more than that taking it seriously is certainly off the table.
I would recommend to take a look at level 50 at that graph. It should be higher than the levels around it because there was a time when there was only 50 levels. That level 41-50 is called paradise is a remnant from that time
There were less than 200 people at level 50, and less than the number of level 51s, which was about 200. So whether WK leveled them up to 51 or not, ether most of those people continued when WaniKani uldated to level 60, or there weren’t many level 50s at that time anyways.
Oh! I already did! I was just really secretive about it 'cause y’know…for the sake of chaos
I’m taking my time here in the redoing the 50s then when I get to 60 again, I’ll start from level 5 mwahahaha
But I would still gladly accept the lemony tomato salad when I bust through those level 60 doors again 
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