Team: Taking it Slow (Little progress is better than no progress!)

WaniKani
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I thought that i was honestly going a reasonable pace…

And then I look at wkstats and crushing reality set in… Expected date for all burned: 2022-12-21… うそ. Look at average leveling time and its 30 days and 4 hours…やばい…

I really have to start focusing on more grammer again. I don’t really know what happened. Im using JFZ and went through the first two books fast and then i was getting headaches and nothing felt like it was sticking and been on third forever and just recently started picking it up slowly (before that I cut basically everything off every wanikani and vocab as I didn’t want to stop.)

Part of me feels like the third book is lacking. Perhaps it just me, but in third it seems to throw kanji at you and then give you sentence, informs you what that sentence is doing and then breaks it down into structure, gives a few examples and then it seems to move on exercises for the lesson.

The kanji i skip over as i know it all from here. The lesson layout thusfar feels lacking. For the exercises, I do pretty good translating Japanese into English. But the other way around English to Japanese I do terrible…

I kinda wished I had gone the genki route, but it would have probably been to much for me at the start.

Here is an example from my notes (not exact as the book, but mostly)
飼う To have/Raise an animal
飼う sounds and conjugates exactly like 買う and even uses the same grammer.

Structure:
(animal) を 飼う
To have animal for a pet

Example sentences
犬を 6匹 飼っています
I am raising 6 dogs
おばあちゃんは 猫を飼ってから、元気に 成りました
My grandmother got better after she had a cat

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I feel like I could get that just from bunpro and its not really teaching. Hopefully these are just quick concepts and it picks back up.

Good news, is my levelling seems to be picking up at little. Vocab seems to becoming easier and last level took me 17 days…

Looks like i’ve been an unknown member of the slow and steady group and in it for the long run.

Also an adult working full time (draining). Not at college/university, that would be even more exhausting. Calculus = head blown at least for myself… Numbers (Maths) neeee, I dont know numbers just get muddled in my head. I cant even type in a phone number most of the time without getting numbers the wrong way round. Congrats…

My brain needs upgrading…

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I would like to apply for team slow.

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Username checks out

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… where did you get these SRS-level based stats from, btw? that’s pretty interesting info, although i’m a bit afraid to know my apprentice 1 percentage :sweat_smile:

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@rfindley posted some JavaScript to get those data. I think it was in the wkstat thread?

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Someone, I can’t remember who did it, recently posted

https://castux.github.io/wanikani-stats/

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thanks! found the link in this thread here.

turns out i’m rather bad at enlightening and burning items :sweat_smile: guess that’s the result of me taking huge pauses (without vacation mode) all the time, as mentioned above in this thread. oh well …

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This was some motivation here. I actually was able to read this with a decent understanding. I don’t know how to read it out loud but still understand it. So at least 6 months of wanikani has been effective, still lots of kanji to learn

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I can’t make up my mind if I want to go slow, give up, just keep doing what’s thrown at my face or take a break… I’ve been getting 6x% accuracy since yesterday. And I do want to take it slowly, how can I do it?

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Don’t give up!! ( ö )/
For me, going slow is doing fewer or no lessons and focusing on my review pile. I take my time to study and reinforce the correct meaning/reading when I get it wrong. Some days that means I only do 10 items a day, but that’s okay! I’m still making progress. Don’t be pressured by everyone speeding through WK. You’ll find your own pace that works for you. You can do it!! (ﾉ*>∀<)ﾉ♡

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Thank you !

I usually do all the lessons when they are available without thinking. I found that some earlier levels vocabs I couldn’t remember now. Maybe now it’s time to change the way to do this. I will keep going !:nerd_face:

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I’m ashamed of myself, I blame depression and procrastination…
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There’s never any shame for going slow. Do what you gotta do and what’s best for you :slight_smile: Any progress is still progress, even if it’s just reviews. (Or working on your mental health <3)

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I managed not to start new lessons… determined to get my apprentice down to below 100 first. Starting my slow living life today !

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I am happy to report going slow doesn’t mean progress is slow. I only attempt the last 33 vocabs in level 3 after I am comfortable with the kanji and it sure helped a lot, both mentally and the actual knowledge. Thank you Team Slow. :gift_heart:

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Happy that you found a pace you are comfortable with!
It’s all about learning, there’s no point in blasting through content and getting burnt out or not properly internalising.

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I’m definitely on this Slow Team and I’m proud of it. I said on this forum that “WK is never a race” too many times until I’m bored saying it, so when someone said that WK is not a race to me I’m kind of befuddled expressing myself though I know not everyone knew I said that “WK is never a race” on too many threads. I know my limit. I know myself. I’d muted all kinds of race cake threads. I ignore all fast team especially when one by one fall down and burn out and quit. I respect some fast team who respect slow team though. I also ignore anyone on Team Slow when one by one procrastinate and quit. I always do my reviews. I always cram in. Anyway. Enough talking. This screenshot should be enough.

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Eh? I just noticed. I’ve been level 19 since November 3rd, 2018. I know that for sure because I always write it on Evernote manually whenever I level up. So that 20 days should be wkstats bug. Meh. And the right one when I level up from level 17 to 18 was October 18th, 2018. So the correct one should be 16 days. But I don’t care about this number as error/bug or any other bugs this site might have. I’m writing all this number to let you know, or just to share about my progress, in detail, that I’m on Team Slow. I don’t even come to wkstats.com often. Why? Because if I do that it feels like weighing my body and wondering why I haven’t lost weight. Oh, I blurred the first 4 levels, because it took about a month for me to decide to subscribe. Let’s just say my average up level is about two weeks to one month. Ah, why am I still talking? I thought I said enough talking? Ok, that’s it!

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Im still super slow. But im still here and making progress. Today i finally hit level 20

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I clear my reviews at least once every day (most times, maybe 1-3 days a month I can’t find time to do, as I have no smartphone to do them on the go).
What does feel a bit disheartening are lessons though. I never get them down to 0. So after each level I spent about 2-3 weeks on vocab lessons, before I can finally learn the new radicals. Sometimes that feels discouraging. I would love at least a progress bar for the vocab. Does anybody know a script that does that?

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Idk if there is a script specially built for that. A Progress Bar for the current level vocab only. I’d love to have that too on my WK Dashboard. You can always request it on this thread.