i don’t know what to do at this point. i know repetition is necessary for learning kanji and vocab, but man, the review process makes me viscerally angry. getting items wrong over and over again feels like a punishing chore and i don’t want to do it anymore. it’s at the point where nothing is sticki…

thanks for the replies, everyone. i got distracted yesterday and didn’t check the thread again until this morning. i thought about it and decided to continue with WK, but at a slower pace for a while. i also installed the Anki mode script to turn them into actual flash cards – i know typing them man…

I don’t think applying and learning are the same thing. Some memorization to kickstart, or to support, for the applying. SRS is just what decides the timing of the flash cards, filtering in most important things first – what are likely to be forgotten. Other things that WaniKani does are Q&A tes…

I have felt the same feeling many, many times. Here is what I do: I slow, way, way down. I mean, WAY down. I, personally, don’t like to do more than 50 or so reviews per day. Any more than that and I just get frustrated by how many I can’t remember. Think of it this way, what’s easier, rememberin…

Personally, it’s discipline. I do a session once in the morning, and once after work. Some weekends, I go to the library just for a quiet time, and to be more focused on the learning. Generally 20-30 minutes per session is enough for me to go through the review and studies for the failed reviews. N…

It sounds like you might be going too fast. Learning a language is a journey. Take a break from WaniKani, put it on Vacation mode, or do a few reviews a day. Doing too many lessons or reviews every day can become mentally exhausting. I personally took long breaks. - Level 37, I was going too fast, …

14 levels in 4 years means it would take one 16~18 years just to complete wanikani (not to mention other stuff you need to study like grammar, etc.) . i think most people would prefer finishing learning the core fundamentals while they’re still alive - or at least young enough to use it in practice. …

A while ago I wrote this learning path focusing on learning by reading : [image] DrDru’s highly opinionated Japanese learning path Resources I’ve been learning Japanese for about 5 years now and have finally decided writing down some reflexions on my journey. …

My trick is to review all mistakes twice after I finish all my daily reviews, that gets the kanji and vocabs to stick to my mind

you just need to be in a state of mind where a “mistake” is not actually a “mistake” - it’s simply an indication that you don’t yet know this symbol/word well enough yet. I think this might be the main issue for the problem outlined in the initial post and is worth emphasizing. If SRS doesn’t wor…

Level 13 here, and I’ve used vacation mode a couple of times with the same result that you had. I forgot too much and it took a long time to get back into it. Recently, level 12 was giving me trouble, but what helped me was to change my settings so that I was getting no new words at all. I just d…

I feel a lot better by doing less lessons. I was doing 25 then it ballooned into 400 daily reviews. Then I moved to 15 and it went to 300-380 because I had a memory failure. Now 10 lessons and its 240 daily reviews and decreasing which is way better. Extra time for reading or just normal everyday l…

SRS is making me hate learning japanese. it makes me want to quit the language

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drdru July 8, 2026, 9:41am 43

A while ago I wrote this learning path focusing on learning by reading :

I’m personally not an SRS person but I keep doing it. I just don’t consider it learning (ie SRS time does not count as learning time).

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SRS is making me hate learning japanese. it makes me want to quit the language

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