Thanks a lot! Knowing someone is in (almost) the same boat as I am feels reassuring haha. How are you doing with the other materials? I probably just need more discipline with my time for Japanese. I used to do a few sentences from 1 episode of satori reader but ofc it didn’t progress much with me haha I did listen to some Japanese song today and I’m currently doing a nighttime lesson - too busy in the day for it.
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I think that was very wise 
Might make you feel down to not go full speed, but remember the goal: learning Japanese! And the vocab early level is quite important, so I think it’s better to take your time.
Then to not feel discouraged, I recommend engaging in native material. If Satori Reader didn’t click for you, maybe try a different story, or try to join the ABBC?
It will be encouraging to see things in the wild you already know, and hopefully motivating to see something in the wild, you don’t know yet!
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Pretty good mostly, though I’ve had travel and health stuff recently that’s led to not really doing a whole lot. I look at the reading and listening as more practice - I don’t do any SRS based off of things on it, I might look stuff up after reading a sentence to see if I was right or not, but I don’t really focus on adding new vocab that way. Listening I generally don’t even look the stuff up, just try to figure out how much I understood or not and adjust from there.
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Still delaying my level up to 15. I know it’s what I’ve been aiming for since I reset back to Level 1. But I find it easier to know I’m not overloading my brain at the moment. I’m chipping away at the level 13 vocab now - on the way to vocabs at lv14 soon. And when it’s done, that’s when I’ll do the last batch of Lv 14 kanjis. I wanted to go into level 15 with less of vocab backlog.
On the other hand, I’m 7 weeks now into running consistently, and 7 months since I started running! It feels like I’ve hit a wall and I’m planning on doing cross training soon to gain more leg strength. Lately, 5km feels like it’s not enough, but I tap out at 6-7km otherwise I’m getting leg cramps in the middle of the running track lol
This Week’s Summary (33nd Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Nov 17 - Nov 23 ‘25)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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Listen Every Day Challenge - Autumn 2024 
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I’ll try Satori reader again. It is easier compared to reading with Mokuro, but on the other hand, it is more fun to read manga… ah the choices haha But a lot of this reading slump is because I have not gone beyond ga, wo, and ni in grammar points, I think.
Ah I hope you are feeling better now!
I see. Thank you for that insight. I think I do the same, too. I just do passive listening or picking up familiar words but not really adding it to my vocabulary bank just yet. I still prefer to learn the kanji then vocab eventually, which I rely on WK heavily for.
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Choose based on what gives you most motivation to come back! 
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I’ve been up to my neck with work stuff for the past two weeks so I’m sad to say I have not yet planned a level up again. But I’m still consistently doing my reviews and it’s come to a point that I have less than a hundred every day now. Which is nice because I don’t have to worry much about the reviews while at work.
I’m waiting for the holidays to arrive so I can have more time to get back into taking in new lessons! I’ve already planned out my December vacation so there’s that to look forward to!
This Week’s Summary (34th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Nov 24 - Nov 30 ‘25)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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Slow and steady for the win!
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Missed some review days this week so it has piled up to 283 reviews today. I think this is still manageable. I could finish this by today by doing them in chunks. It’s always this pre-holiday rush at work that I never understood. So yeah it will be a slow level up for now. My next week isn’t looking too good either but I hope to at least be able to do one batch of review a day until my official vacation.
This Week’s Summary (35th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Dec 1 - Dec 7 ‘25)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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Whew my official break starts today! I’m still “at work” but who knows if I’m really working since I’m at home… evil cat laugh I had a week break to finish all my outstanding tasks for the year so yep my reviews piled up again. I managed to bring down 100 reviews last time but there were still 200 reviews left. I’ll be going at it now!
This Week’s Summary (36th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Dec 22 - Dec 28 ‘25)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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Happy Holidays to everyone! I admit I have been busy over the holidays, but I managed to bring down my 400+ reviews to 51 today!
I’m planning to officially start the rest of level 14 kanji by Monday. I’ve put it off long enough but the elapsed time of not taking in new lessons allowed me to marinate the previous kanji + vocab I’ve learned. I found out I still can confidently answer 90% of the reviews! The other 10% being mostly confused with similar-looking kanjis or forgetting the reading but remembering the meaning. I also have been doing passive listening because I’ve started watching 3 animes during the holidays. Though I wasn’t logging it at all lmao I’m currently enjoying watching Kaiju no. 8 and Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill. I love the food visuals and I cannot help but eat while watching it lol
I hope to make good progress for the next couple of months with my Japanese. I can tell that it’s working well because I can recognize the vocab from the dialogues in the anime while watching. I’m really excited for what this year has to offer!
This Week’s Summary (37th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Dec 29 - Jan 4 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
Do some Bunpro Grammar
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Aaand I still have not started any new lessons haha OTL It’s just so me to get sick at the start of the year. Plus getting caught up with the new Animal Crossing update cough I mean I had to give up a lot of things to give time for my Japanese lessons last year. And since I’ve put off my Japanese lessons last December, it just came crashing down. On top of now getting into regular journal writing since my brother’s girlfriend gave me a fountain pen for Christmas. I can’t even get out of the hole I dug myself into just yet. More pens, even more inks…
But on the bright side, I got to haul my ass today and do my 66 reviews. This week it’s gonna pile up to 100+ ish if I don’t go at it everyday. I’m more excited for the upcoming burns to be honest, but I know new lessons are also important.
Also, I have not been that idle! I think I finished 3 animes + restarted 2 more on-going ones since December. I’ve been very diligent with that one at least! I also rotate my Japanese anime song playlist on Spotify when I do my evening runs. I’m planning to get a copy of an upcoming Japanese BL series, I’m Kishi, Your Private Tutor. I came across the preview for that over at Tiktok and well, I hope it’s good!
This Week’s Summary (38th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Jan 26 - Feb 1 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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Work has taking up a lot of my time and I can barely do every day reviews. But the good news is that most of my reviews are burns now and that gave me a little bit of joy at least. I don’t even know how I’m still surviving at this point. I feel like I’m wading through the days in auto pilot.
For today - which is a Wednesday - I managed to do my 55 reviews! Still hoping to get started on the new lessons but we shall see after next week.
This Week’s Summary (39th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Feb 2 - Feb 8 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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Sad to say, I’m still staying at level 14 haha
The good news is that I was able to do today’s reviews and then some. I managed to do 1 hour of passive listening to Yuyu’s podcast on YT during break time. I was watching some songs made by First Take on YT and it just reminded me of why I’m doing Japanese lessons in the first place. but honestly, it’s the best I could do for today.
Hoping I have more check marks within the week!
This Week’s Summary (40th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Feb 9 - Feb 15 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
Do some Bunpro Grammar
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Whenever there’s an idle time, I find myself opening a Yuyu no Nihongo Podcast video and just doing passive listening. I don’t do much reading but I’m considering quizzing myself with kanas again.
Last week, I managed to learn 10 new vocal + a few kanjis. And the rest of the week, I just did the burns. Nothing much happening in life, except for the mountain of tasks at work. I’m only going on for the planned vacation I’m looking forward to by end of June.
This Week’s Summary (41st Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Feb 16 - Feb 22 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
Do some Bunpro Grammar
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Proud of myself to have done 5 out of 7 days of reviews + 30 new lessons last week! Yesterday, I only managed to do some burn reviews after reading Sakamoto days. I find that incorporating things that I love about Japan like manga, anime, and even songs encourage me to do do these hard lessons, and keep showing up everyday. There are days where it is difficult to pick up the slack because of IRL stuff, but then again, I’m not in any competition or pressure or whatever, so I’ll go at my own pace.
Starting this week off with 30 lessons, too, and hopefully not the end of the lessons for this week at least.
This Week’s Summary (42nd Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Feb 23 - Mar 1 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 15
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I knew I forgot something and that was taking a screenshot of level up to Lv 14. Not to fret, here’s the level up to Lv 15. This happened something during the weekend I think.
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I wasn’t able to do any runs this week, but I managed to bring down all 131 vocabulary items of level 14. Whew. Gonna get back to it this week and run some miles!
It wasn’t always easy to do lessons - especially for new kanjis. So what I started doing is breaking my lessons in two batches. That way I only see 15 items for batch 1, and another 10-15 items for batch 2. It doesn’t put too much pressure on me to finish all 25 items in one sitting. I tend do get distracted too, so that’s another thing why I do my lessons. So far it worked last week!
I am also scratching my head with last weeks vocabulary. Like why do we have so much words for assumption, expectation, hope, and wish lol in some cases, there’s an explanation for the context and how it is used and in some, it’s just straight up “this is a jukugo word so you know the reading for both kanjis…”. And the kanji 合 is really testing me. Suit, join, あい, あう readings. What do you mean I have to use the kunyomi reading for vocab? Aaaaa
And that’s it for the summary. See you next level up!
This Week’s Summary (43rd Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Mar 2 - Mar 8 ‘26)
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Level up WaniKani to Level 16
Do some Bunpro Grammar
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