Some of my starting to read experience, fail or not, experience, but Chinese.
Just reading a constant amount of, like example sentences with translations, isn’t enough. I think it might be better to make one constant lower portion, and another variable more challenging portion (with variable difficulty). Reading more on good days, and possibly minimum on some days.
Reading materials don’t need to come from Book Clubs or Topics tagged bookclub (Natively Forums), but also whatever you feel like. Maybe news, maybe articles, maybe web novels (easy to Yomitan). Purchased copyright materials, like mangas and books, may need some effort to get Yomitan working. I like the concept of visual novels, but that also could need effort to get Yomitan running.
Honestly, I would recommend learning to look up Kanji on a smartphone dictionary app, with finger writing, as well.
Nonetheless, a material with momentum may start so-so, but caught on later, but overly-paced is a joy killer, imo.
This much could the momentum going, rather than just reading because of plans and curriculum.
There’s nothing wrong with quitting WaniKani. I’d even argue that, if you can make it work, using other tools is going to speed you up. Personally I think WaniKani is great when you’re starting out with Japanese/Kanji and need the structure, but once you’ve found your footing you can get a lot more mileage without the training wheels. If you have the time, go listen to a video of someonen rambling for two hours.
Even those that believe that WaniKani is actually amazing hopefully wouldn’t argue that it works for everyone. You might just be one of those for which it doesn’t.
I finally said goodbye to WaniKani after years of struggling (took me much longer to finally consider quitting WaniKani than you did) and went from an N5/N4 level to N1 in about two more years. Certainly didn’t break any speed records, but it went much better for me afterwards.
The WaniKani forums are a bit of a bubble. Almost everyone that has quit WaniKani and found a better path (for them) isn’t here anymore. Naturally you’re a lot more likely to get “You just have to push through!” comments here. You might want to consider asking this question somewhere else as well, just to get a broader perspective.
One thing WaniKani is very good at making you believe is that you should study kanji before you study vocab. But, you know, you don’t have to. Once you have a solid foundation in the most frequent kanji (which you do), you can just study kanji alongside vocab. After all, what’s most important is that you recognize vocabulary, not kanji.
Personally I found making the transition pretty scary. Learn vocab without knowing all the kanji first?! Ridiculous! I don’t even want to think about how long it took for people in my book club to convince me to give it a try. And that’s all it is: Give it a try.
Go ahead, go to jpdb.io, pick a book you’d like to read and learn 100 words without knowing any of the kanji. You hated it? No worries, just go back to the olden ways. You liked it? Congratulations, now you can spend all that time you spent reviewing scribbles on reading instead!
Oh, and just in case you found that you need isolated kanji study after all, I’m fairly certain jpdb.io also lets you study kanji before you learn the relevant vocab.
Too lazy to read previous replies so sorry if you answered this already.
Why do you care about accuracy?
Accuracy never mattered to me during study. I just trust that im studying and practicing and i will get it eventually
I view speaking as the test. But even then if i mess up its never a big deal and people correct me or dont even mention it.