Hi all. I’m brand new to WaniKani, about five days in, and this is my first community post. はじめまして. I find I have the same issue as others have mentioned: I can’t remember or figure out which of the kanji readings to use in vocabulary readings. What I’d like is the ability to practice vocabulary readings multiple times in quiz format without having to do mixed in Kanji and radical questions.
I found an Advanced button with lessons that seems to give some choices as to what goes in the next lesson batch. Anything like that available in Extra Study? I came here from the Tofugu site, where I found the kana quiz completely awesome. The ability to select what I wanted to be quizzed on helped me so much. I’m hoping that picking out vocabulary words after lessons and going around them a few times would help smooth-start my reviews.
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You should familiarize yourself with userscripts. They are third party add-ons developed by volunteers. The userscript that does what you want is called Self Study Quiz.
Unfortunately a change in Wanikani partially broke this script and the author lacks the time to fix it. Another volunteer posted a userstyle to fix it.
I managed to install the script and I think the style sheet (I’m less sure about that). From a quick try the quiz seems to work okay. I like the idea that it does an audio quiz - sounds very useful and I’ll definitely be giving it a go. Unfortunately I can’t see how to only select the vocabulary I want to practice yet. Maybe that will come clear with use.
On the upper right corner there is a gear like icon. If you click this it will lead you to the settings. Under the item tab you can define custom preset. Click on new for creating your own preset and click the checkbox for the Item Type filter. You can select the type of items you want to select. . The level filter will let you select only the item from the level you want to study.
When you exit the settings you have access to your preset through the dropdown like the built-in presets.
For anyone else reading this, it works really well for me, but sometimes the script doesn’t appear in the menu, and I have to refresh the page once or even twice, at which point it appears. It’s an odd glitch, but if you know that’s what you have to do it’s not an issue.
