You don’t know that. And better finishing in three goes than not finishing at all.
Also, sometimes, life happens. How do you plan to do reviews without an Internet access, for instance?
Edit: I’m aware that those points have already been made above, but there’s nothing more to say, really.
Guys, he’s talking about Vacation Mood, not Vacation Mode, so let’s hear him out!
I don’t think you know enough about me or anyone here to assume that. When I go to Japan for a month, enjoying my time there while still working full time during the night remotely then I’ll enable vacation mode with no regrets and 0 feeling of not valuing my time. If that means a 50 day level every couple of months then so be it.
I finished 20 levels in under a year. Other people do almost all of WaniKani in that time whereas it might take me 3 years. But since learning Japanese is a slow process anyway for most people who have fulltime jobs and responsibilities my kanji knowledge will be ahead of everything else even at that speed. So there is no reason to rush it. The only thing that really matters is to keep going.
Having 1000+ reviews to finish after a vacation has the risk of feeling overwhelmed and quitting all together. And that would be even more of a waste of time then.
Sure. I want to be able to speak Japanese while in Japan, I enjoy the process and I think it is time well spent in comparison to surfing reddit or watching netflix. But it is still a hobby, so something I do in my free time and that has a lower priority than other responsibilities in my life or nice events. Sorry dear crabigator but while I’m in Japan I‘m putting you on hold and will come back with new motivation and things I‘ve learned afterwards.
… and I’ll come back to 0 stacked up reviews thanks to vacation mode. So coming back is a pleasurable experience which ensures I actually do it.
Let’s agree that people are different. We have different personalities and life circumstances and so we need different approaches. I’m OK with someone never ever enabling vacation mode but „vacation mode is not your friend“ is not true as a general statement in my opinion.
Ha, my bad.
I love vacation mood. I wish work would give me a rest so that I could enable “vacation mood” once in a while, especially during my official vacations 
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the SRS is designed without a respite. It’s designed to be completed all in one go.
What if you are doing something and dont have time for reviews.
You have to reset to level 1.
SRS are designed to jog your memory at the most efficient time.
It does not care whether you stop or not.
Well goddamn it, I really wanted to get 60.
Welp, better luck next time I guess.
I don’t remember where I saw the suggestion, but you can also do WK in super sudden death hardcore mode.
Every time you miss an item, you have to reset to level 1.
(You have also the luckwarm hard mode: every time you miss an item, you reset your current level.)
Well now I know what im doing when I hit 60.
Super hardcore super sudden death hardcore mode. Each time you miss an item, you have to reset AND buy the lifetime subscription again.
delete your account, make a new one and buy lifetime again.
It won’t let you buy lifetime otherwise.
Well, whatever you have to do to make it work.
Anything to escape the devious cash grab known as “vacation mode”
*mood
I just went on a 7-day cruise and I gotta say-- hiding out to practice Japanese was a highlight.
However!
Like some other vacations, I had to Pay for internet usage on the cruise, and some people might not want such a thing.
I say, never use vacation mode for breaks from Japanese, UNLESS you are focusing on something just as important like a meditation or another language or a flipping Marriage, for instance. Some breaks are valid, some are just an excuse to not feel like you’re quitting. Not to be contradictory here, either, but who cares if you lose a little money? WaniKani might deserve a little tip now and then, and the only important thing is your learning. If your main motivation for learning Japanese is from how much money you spent, you’re probably doing it wrong.
It’s weird to me though. In high school I’d quit other languages like French and Spanish easily, because I wasn’t willing to learn the vocabulary. It wasn’t a big emotional affair. 
In all other cases, one should use vacation mode for vacations where they feel kinda solid on their latest Kanji but they want a more complete mind cleanse than just a soak in the tub.
If you’re the type of person to bathe every now and then, you can’t tell me you haven’t practiced kanji in the tub…
This should be a script
you said it yourself
