Hi, I’ve been using Wanikani for about 10 months now and have just reached level 17. However I recently feel burned out by it. My accuracy is down and I have a hard time working to 200 reviews each day, sometimes more. I also have exams for university coming up which will also be time consuming an…

I think theres a vacation break feature if here if you want a break so your reviews dont pile up when you get back… but i dont know where it is found and how it really works :grimacing:

I don’t want to take a break completely. I just don’t want to do lessons anymore

Sure, why not, but also get the leech trainer add-on.

Yes! This would be my suggestion: don’t take new lessons, but keep doing reviews. With a lot of low-Apprentice items in your queue, you should aim for hitting the correct review times, because that helps remember them. But when you have higher Apprentice items and Guru stuff in there… you might be …

Dropping lessons for as long as you need is totally fine! iirc the general consensus on the WK forums is to only do 10 lessons a day (or less) for a manageable review load anyways, so 200+ reviews a day might mean you’re doing too many lessons in the first place?

Definetly stop with new lessons. Try to keep your apprentice below 100 - as a result you should have 100 or less reviews a day. If you have many reviews it means that many kanji are not correct. Focus on these instead of starting new lessons

I wouldn’t stop entirely. Even just 5 new lessons a day would be better than nothing and add a minimum workload!

[image] IchliebeButter: I don’t want to take a break completely. I just don’t want to do lessons anymore Sounds like a great idea. Plenty of people take breaks from doing lessons on here. You’ll be in good company. WK is nice and all, but IRL stuff is frankly more important. So, get that bal…

I’m currently making a habit to stop new reviews the day before exams in college, so I think that taking breaks from lessons every now and then is great! By just doing reviews like I do on those days I mentioned, your review queue will have a chance to catch some breath and reduce the review counts …

I stopped doing lessons once I reached level 31. I kept doing reviews though. That went on for about 3 months. I don’t regret it

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anon45962687 February 11, 2021, 11:43am 14

Join Team Snails 🐌🏖 Team Snails on Vacation 🐌🏖 I had the same problem, at level 16 as well, level 17 is close but I spent my sweet time on 16, because I had many leeches to take care of.

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