thank you for the responses and help … I will continue on with things …
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The community is for the most part quite friendly though.
The problem is that we probably get one if not several of these threads a week, so it doesn’t really bring out the best in people who reply…
Hang in there though, it won’t be too long until you’ve got a gazillion reviews every day.
And as has been said, the way SRS works kinda means you need to start slow since, once the system gets going, at best only 10% or so of your work each day will be new material.
I’ve actually made this mistake several times with anki. I’ll add a ton of new words every day in the beginning and then lose motivation when the reviews take up so much time I don’t even have time to add new words later on.
Like you said, everyone is different but I feel it’s probably wise to save the majority from themselves in this case, and WK is a packaged and pre-made product made to fit most people, while Anki etc will give you almost complete freedom.
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Waiting is part of this app, but I’d argue that the anticipation helps drive motivation.
As far as as the waiting time and the workload, today I did what I felt like what was a Lot of Lessons… and I still have 25 to go… and I already finished about 70 reviews today.
Yes, the first couple days of this app are slow, but it gets much, much more intensive… and I’m actually in some ways not looking forward to getting to the 20s and 30s.
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If you do decide to wait it out a little, then you can always study other things in the meantime.
WK is primarily a Kanji learning site, it does not teach grammar, and only really touches on vocabulary. I would suggest learning a little grammar(you don’t have to do a deep dive yet if you don’t want to), or learning some auxiliary vocabulary.
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The FAQ will answer nearly all of your questions, such as this one:
You can find it at the bottom of the page, or here: https://knowledge.wanikani.com
Another thing: although it may have been a bit rude from @DaisukeJigen, however, saying you will avoid the community after getting one negative reply is quite the overreaction in my opinion.
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thank you for the info.
As for [@DaisukeJigen]: to be honest, I am just tired of this kind of thing. People say things on line they would never say to your face. I guess my exasperation was at the whole phenomena more than this one instance. It was the one unnecessary and petite slight too many. And for some reason I did not expect it here.
I see that other members of the community better present its values than @DaisukeJigen.
The program is great and I can see its benefit for working through the kanji. So once I have completed the first few levels I will buy more: just need to decide if it is for a year or for life.
thanks again for the info… and from what others have said about how things advance this sounds like it is going to be fun … hard, but fun.
Also, I found the block function …
take care and thanks again for the info
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We try to be as nice as we can but honestly…
In the future please check if there isn’t already a thread on what you are asking! And if you don’t want people to be rude don’t be rude in the first place!
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I know this wasn’t posted on the Feedback forum, and even when people post on the Feedback forum they often don’t look at the pinned post, but there are two things the staff recommend not making new threads about.
This topic combines them into one.
As you can see, most people do respond in a friendly manner no matter how many times the same threads show up. But we also do appreciate it when people check what’s already here.
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Hey @SteveGL! Like a fair amount of other users wrote in to say…try to hang in there! It’ll definitely pick up in a few short levels! Also, typing errors are a drag but we do allow slight variations on words. If the word is short enough, you won’t be able to deviate too much, but for longer words, we’re a bit more lenient.
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I haven’t made one of these posts in quite a while. Sometimes it can be a bit cathartic, but I’m not really sure if they help or hurt more.
It’s difficult because if you allow all of these types of posts, your forum ends up catering largely to new users who flood the forums with these same types of posts. If you close them all for being redundant, the forum can start to seem hostile to newer users and turn some of them away.
We’ve had discussions and discussions about the discussions, but in the end it’s never gotten us anywhere. I haven’t bothered with responding to these types of posts anymore, because I just don’t think it’s worth my time to do so.
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don’t only do wk. if this site is only one of your tools, you’ll find that it will hog more and more of your study time the longer you do it, leaving less for your other activities.
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I’d recommend the double check script so you can re-do typos. Also, I promise you that WK speeds up after about 5 levels, then you’ll suddenly find yourself with a ton of reviews and lessons. It really does just take a bit of patience.
What I did for the first few levels when I was bored was use Kanjigarden, another Kanji-learning app very similar to wanikani, which has a free trial of 3 weeks, and the trial lasts about as long as it takes for WK to speed up. Learn as many kanji as you want on there. By the time you get to them in wanikani, you’ll be able to breeze through them. Once the trial ran out for me, I was getting so many lessons in WK that I had no need to learn kanji anywhere else. And the kanji I learned in KG really made WK easier.
You may even like KG more since you can learn as many kanji as you want, but you’ll still have to wait in between reviews since that’s how SRS works. You won’t learn vocab on there though. I mainly just used it to keep me occupied during the first few levels of WK. You could also check out grammar resources in the meantime, or try some listening practice. It’s never too early to start with either of those things, in my opinion.
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Hi from level 2!
I already know all of the kanji and vocabulary so far. It’s good review though. I’m making silly typos and mistakes. Don’t give up! I know it will speed up for us soon.
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When I was on level 1 (and 2) I made typos and I really often wrote spelling of a word instead of the translation and vice versa. At level three I have learned not to rush so much.
Waiting for stuff you know is a good thing. On the other hand I would like option to review novice (and maybe Apprentice I) items in the meantime, as those are things that did not quite stuck in my head yet…
Anyway WaniKani is not Japanese learning site, it is a Kanji learning site. + some vocabulary. There is so much you can do in the free time between reviews. Watch anime (in Japanese with subtitles). Learn Japanese grammar. Learn how to write kana and kanji. Sure, with a good Anki deck and lots of focus you may learn kanji in 3 months, but you will miss most of the vocabulary and the alternate readings. I do not think you have to rush through learning Kanji. Slower can be better. Find some other activity for the rest of Japanese (other than reading Kanji).
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I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of that paragraph, but this part isn’t really true.
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Life. Trust me, you will not regret it. And you will be buried under reviews soon. Trust me on this too. All the best!
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There’s currently a 33% discount on the lifetime subscription.
If you want a srs system for grammar there is bunpro which I find usefull (not free)
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Second the 文プロ recommendation.
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Third™ the Bunpro recommendation. With WK and Bunpro i’ve learned more Kanji, vocabulary and grammar in a few weeks than in my months and years of study with textbooks. (i didn’t study very hard, but still)
and i really feel like i understand Japanese so much better now and it’s not just dry information, contrary to what people are saying with MIA/AJATT/immersion. Of course immersion is important, but i think grammar study is underestimated.
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