I am about level 15, and last two levels have been challenging. I also feel like nothing is sticking and that too many of the words I’m learning are arbitrary and not useful, things I don’t even use in English, and that finishing all reviews just feels like a time sinker I could be using to invest i…

[image] Ciox: I was mainly trying to illustrate that words you never see in English can actually be more common in Japanese due to the different cultural environment. I agree that some of these things are best learned in their context. Wanikani is not perfect, but I mainly wanted to help the OP …

[image] Ciox: I personally do not read Japanese news that much but I am sure they feature the latest trends in baseball expansively. Oh, yeah. Baseball is in every news broadcast nearly on TV Japan. It’s HUGE! So I assume it’s big in the newspapers as well.

The thing is that, unless you actually want to learn about baseball specifically, you won’t normally struggle too much to pick up the common vocab and metaphorical expressions in context. I’m not a native English speaker and I know absolutely nothing about baseball or American football for instance…

I mean I’ve been playing Fashion Dreamer in Japanese (the only game I feel comfortable playing Japanese and doing lookups for it). Quite a few level 14 WK words in there. You could check out other resources while doing WaniKani such as… Crystal Hunters a manga that teaches Japanese Game Gengo a y…

Have you tried NativShark? You can archive vocab, grammar, kanji, etc that you are already confident in. It can link to Wanikani so it knows what kanji you know.

I was wondering please what were your reasons for quitting? Thank you!

The main reason was I had just got to the fast levels and WK in their infinite wisdom decided to **** out the kana update and by the time I had got 4 levels down (should have been 6 or 7 in that time) I said screw this and dropped it. I imported the remaining kanji into an anki deck but they were al…

ah, that makes sense, thank you for explaining. Was the kana update when they added the kana only words?

Yes. And they promised an opt out option that never came.

Thinking about Quitting, Please give me your success stories to carry on!

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TreyE March 20, 2024, 5:59pm 50

I started to answer here but thought my reply changed topics a bit too much so I created a new post: “Skipping” vocab via Lesson Picker?

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