The pain begins soon

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I’m on the same boat bro. Hang in there.

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Stay strong!

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My headcanon is that 0-10 is called pleasant because “the turtles are safe for now” and 11-20 painful because you start burning turtles around that stage.
Burning items is good for you, but the turtles


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@DragonicBladex @catwithcookies You guys are not alone :smiling_face_with_tear:

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If it makes you feel better I would actually argue that the first levels are the hardest because you have to familiarize yourself with all these new and foreign concepts, manage to find some headspace to memorize these shapes and assign sounds and meanings to them, but once you already know a few hundreds of them it becomes easier to slot more and more kanji in.

For instance I learned è–Ș yesterday (kanji not on WK) and while it’s not a super simple-looking kanji, it should look pretty familiar to you because it’s just 新 – that you should have learned recently – with some grass (or flowers, as WaniKani calls it) on top. The more kanji you know the more likely it becomes that a new kanji will be just like one you already know with a small tweak.

I certainly wouldn’t pretend that it gets really easy at some point, but I think the painful/death/hell names WaniKani uses are a bit overly dramatic.

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the pain, the exquisite pain - embrace!!

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Just keep pushing through those reviews, and do as many lessons as you are comfortable with. Once you get a good routine down, the levels will all start to feel the same, difficulty wise. Also make sure to do tons of listening and reading outside of Wanikani. Even if it feels rough having to look up a bunch of words sometimes, you’ll be able to acquire a lot of kanji and vocab ahead of time and further reinforce the kanji you’ve already learned here. My main mistake when starting to study Japanese was delaying immersion because I didn’t know enough kanji to read, which initially caused me to lose motivation and burn out around level 18 or so. Anyways, hang in there. The pain will turn into pleasure soon enough!

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Yeah, I absolutely feel like doing listening and reading outside of Wanikani has helped. At my level (probably yours too?) parsing an entire natural sentence from a TV drama or whatever at speed is pretty hit or miss, but I’ve found even just listening for the occasional “oh hey I know that; that’s one of my vocab words” while also reading English subtitles, or looking at signs in shows, or doing easy graded readers is a really good method of reinforcement.

I’m just about to finish level 11 and I don’t feel like my pace has really slowed at all. I’m sure in the grand scheme of things it’s fine if you do wind up slowing down for a little bit; all I’m saying is I think “painful” might be a bit of in-jokey exaggeration—you’ll get through it!

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