I posted a thread a while back asking about using Wanikani and Anki together, and people encouraged me to keep using Anki, especially for kana only words, thanks to everyone for that advice because it’s been going well, and I’ve also added Bunpro for Grammar about a month ago.
Now that I’m a decent bit into both Wanikani and the Anki core 6k deck, I’ve had quite a bit of words where the vocab lesson overlaps between the two, so I’m learning the word in two SRS systems. Is it okay to just suspend the words on Anki that I’ve already reached in Wanikani to be more efficient with time? I’m assuming that there would be no issues, but I wanted to make sure there wasn’t anything I’m overlooking that might mess me up.
The only issue that comes to my mind is that in WK you will burn the word after ~6 months, i.e. you will not be quizzed on it again. In Anki the time between reviews will increase (up to a predefined limit, I think it’s 10 years or so?) but you will keep getting quizzed on the word. So you might want to decide on a word-by-word basis: For rare words, it might make sense to keep them (and if you always answer “Easy” in anki, the intervals will get larger very fast, so you don’t actually get that many reviews on the word). But if it’s a common word that you see often in books etc. anyways, then yeah, there is no point (besides completionism) in keeping it in anki.
On the other hand, if they’re rare words, it probably doesn’t matter if you forget them I think of this as a statistics game – you want to learn a lot of words but of a pool of say 10 equivalently common words it doesn’t matter which 7 or 8 you end up remembering, so your learning method doesn’t need to be constructed to carefully avoid any words escaping from it – the ones that get away will be replaced by others just as good.
If you continue with the SRS approach, at some point you’ll transition from “premade decks and systems” to “words I encountered and didn’t know but that seem worth SRSing” – and if there are words that you burnt in WK, forgot, and then ran into again, they’ll naturally come back into your SRS system that way.
I sort of disagree with the general consensus, since (unless you’re doing KaniWani too), you only ever test recognition on WK whereas Anki also asks you to go from your native language to Japanese by default.
I also just seem to retain stuff from my Anki deck much better than from WK, so in general I don’t bother excluding things just because I’ve seen them here, but that might just be me.
Passive recognition is an entirely different thing than actively knowing an item. You can get quite at making out what words mean when you read them, without being able to say a single sentence.
Absolutely – but I don’t think SRS of “to think” → 思う works as a tool for improving active production of sentences. I think to improve ability to produce sentences the best thing is practice of producing sentences, i.e. speaking and writing practice.
I think of this as a statistics game – you want to learn a lot of words but of a pool of say 10 equivalently common words it doesn’t matter which 7 or 8 you end up remembering, so your learning method doesn’t need to be constructed to carefully avoid any words escaping from it – the ones that get away will be replaced by others just as good.