Background: I started WaniKani in January 2019 and I’m now level 31. From the time I started up until around when COVID became bad, I was very good with doing reviews: would do them almost every hour I was awake, consistently got 90%+ correct. Over the past few months with COVID, I had been working from home and using WaniKani less frequently. Now that I’m back at work, a lot of the kanji that are popping up that I’m having trouble with. I’ll think it’s one of three readings or something and guess correctly. I’m lucky if I can get 65% of my reviews correct now.
But I’m torn about restarting because I put a year and a half into this account. Also, the first 10 or so levels are going to be very tedious, as I studied Japanese for 3 years in college and am now living in Japan.
I’m sure there are a million threads about this, but here’s another. I’m wondering if anyone has been at a similar level/had a similar situation and decided to restart or carry through and is happy with their decision?
It depends, really. I’ve done a few resets in the past and now, having come back after a year, I just dived in with ~1.2k reviews. My arms got sore after typing, a lot dropped into apprentice/guru, but overall it’s not that scary. You’ll remember a lot more than you anticipate, imo. And it hurts to go through the same items you’ve learned once, bringing down the satisfaction of reaching a new level.
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