Are there any services like WaniKani but for other languages? I know Anki is a thing, but are there any dedicated services? (Not Duolingo, I’m willing to use that, but I want to try other options first.)
I just wonder, for which other language aside from Japanese could a Wanikani be made? Mandarin is an obvious one (and I’d actually love if that existed), and then maybe Korean for the like, 200 Hanja, but other than that I can’t really think of a language with a writing system that would best be taught by a Wanikani-like app. I heard the Thai writing system is really complex, but the difficulty doesn’t seem to be because of the amount of characters. So which language are you thinking of?
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What other languages? And by a website like WK do you mean an SRS site dedicated to a specific language? Because I don’t think a morpheme website (closest equivalent I can think of) would work as well unless you’re talking about a hanzi website for Mandarin, Cantonese, etc
I don’t know of anything else like Wanikani myself (other than Anki/Kitsun but like you said those aren’t language-specific) but maybe clarifying which language(s) would help people rec resources for you
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Aside from Japanese and Chinese I don’t think there are any languages with a voluminous enough script to need a service like this. A system like this would be nice for any language with a non-Roman alphabet, but given how quickly most people would learn the alphabets I don’t see how those services would remain profitable. It would have to be a tool for multiple languages.
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I posted the same thing some years ago for Mandarin and have been looking for something ever since. So far I haven’t found anything close.
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Hello!
I am actually currently learning Mandarin as I am half chinese and trying to get back to my roots! 
I’m using it together with wanikani since I love to learn japanese since i love anime
I actually came here from Pandanese which is basically a mandarin version of WaniKani, it uses mnemonics and SRS as well. I find them both very similar albeit some differences but I have been enjoying both so far and it has actually been supplementing each other since some radicals and explanations are very similar Give it a try!
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How good is 日本語 for understanding 中国? I know you couldn’t pronounce or write in it, but could you at least scan a piece of text and have an idea of what it was about if you knew all the 漢字?
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Hello! For me, there are are a lot of characters that are similar! Especially with the numbers, they have similarities in structure. Pronouncing words sometimes sounds alike too. In a sense, yes! Since I am more familiar with Mandarin, now that I am learning Japanese, seeing subtitles or hearing the words - I can associate it with each other.
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