It would be wonderful if, at the end of each level, there was a story using all the kanji vocabulary learned to that point. Anyone up for the challenge of writing such a thing and sharing it? I am considering it, but if anyone else is game, that is fine with me. More than one story per level would be even better.
what would you do with other vocabulary that has not been studied yet? The easiest solution is to put furigana on it, the hardest solution is to leave those words out and find a way to just use words in the set or that normally appear as kana only.
It’s an interesting creative challenge to write stories with just a limited subset of words. I’m not sure my brain would be able to hold the possibilities long enough.
What would be so amazing would be if someone made a tool where it was possible to enter a WK level, and then enter a text, and then the tool shows you any words / kanji missing (from the target level), and any words kanji included that haven’t been taught up until that level. How hard is that? (tagging @GolyBidoof who may know) I’d be game to try writing one, it sounds like a fun challenge and might finally motivate me to practice writing. It would be possible to get the texts corrected at Langcorrect and (very slowly I expect as most people don’t practice output), perhaps the community would arrive at a library of relatively correct stories.
I’d need a good brainstorm of a wide range of kana only words so that there are actually enough words available to say something ![]()
As an aside, if you’re interested in getting practice by Wanikani level, Satori Reader has stories at various levels and has an API to integrate your WK level so that furigana is removed from words with known kanji. Here’s a link to the fan club I started here
Satori Reader appreciation thread
With enough kana everything is possible! Level 1:
二人の女の人はホテルの入口で話している。
「わたしの大きなクマを山の上までつれていったけど、力をうしなって
川におちられてしまったの。山の下までながれてしまった。」
「ヤバいよ!クマはだいじょうぶなの?!」
「もちろん!ほんとうのクマじゃなかった!人工のクマだったの。とてもリアルなぬいぐるみだよ。」
I’m still missing a bunch of numbers…
Yes. Satori reader is great. I have used it in the past.
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Now I want the sequel with her 3 frogs
That is exactly what I am talking about, but with kanji not yet learned at that level there would be furigana.
the actual functionality, i was able to get the prototype in 15 minutes, but the api functionality data storage, caching and selecting the texts that it’s supposed to work are definitely going to take a bit longer
could also get a button to export to anki with an example sentence as well, but i think even this could be pretty useful
here’s the prototype tampermonkey script (its very rough, has been ai generated, but gets some of the functionality you asked for):
insert your API key at the top, specify websites for which it’s supposed to be running in (@match, by default set to every page) and let it fly
on a bit of a funnier note,
i will not be improving and turning this script into an actual working product, this prototype is all that there’ll be ^^
You’re magic!

