Great idea! I’ll prepare some sweet onigiri then.
… If somehow I manage to fail all 24 items I might use it as consolation prize
Great idea! I’ll prepare some sweet onigiri then.
… If somehow I manage to fail all 24 items I might use it as consolation prize
happy cakeday @anon88459823!
Level 17 achieved.
Honestly I am at a point where I’m worrying for my retention, lately it feels like I’ve been getting older reviews wrong a bit more often. I can’t seem to recall the kunyomi readings a lot of the time, and when I encounter things in the wild I can’t read the kunyomi despite knowing it in the reviews when it shows up along with the word WK taught with it. I guess I haven’t been associating the new reading as the kunyomi and so I don’t remember it if isn’t that exact word. Anyone else run into that problem?
Thank you ![]()
I celebrated by leveling up to level 25 … again. Now I have officially caught up to before resetting ![]()
how refreshing!
your avatar looks goood next to that cake hehehe!
Can I ask, what is the script you are using that color codes your reviews based on type? (radical, kanji, vocab). I feel like that would be very useful! ![]()
I’m exactly the same way! That’s why I’m doing the same number of lessons every day. It stops the overwork and then burnout cycle, but it also motivates me when I just don’t feel like doing wanikani, because I can tell myself, well it’s only this many lessons, completely achievable.
I run into that all the time. I will know something in the context of wanikani reviews, but then when I encounter it in life I can’t remember it. But, I also find that if I look it up after seeing it out in the world, I remember it much better afterwards! I think it can’t hurt to see kanji in a lot of different contexts, and there’s no shame in having to look things up again. Every time you relearn something it will stick better!
Thank you for sharing that! I suppose I should start reading more
And just read an N4 graded reader since the last thing I read was an N5 which I found far too easy. This one was a good story, quite tragic. Some kanji I didn’t know but it was in furigana, the kanji I did know helped me a lot in understanding, I wouldn’t be able to accurately translate it, my grammar skills were all picked up naturally so it’s not the most reliable. That being said I understood pretty much all of it, there was one detail I had misunderstood at first but halfway into the book I corrected that mistake after it was touched on again in a different context.
It felt quite fulfilling, I recommend everyone here give a graded reader a shot, also got to see a bit of kunyomi in use, so that was a good reinforcement.
All right, leveled up first time since joining the race! At 18 right now. ![]()
My second level up since the race began, woohoo! In spite of a LOT of life stress and extenuating circumstances ![]()
Keep on racin’, manly racers! So proud of all of you for your commitment and progress!
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So, I decided to stick with Wanikani for a year. Even fulfilled my goal to reach 4th until the 2023, lol.)
The amount of lessons they give at 4th are pretty horrifying.

EDIT: btw, current level is the one you are learning at the moment or the one you finished?
I haven’t got any burns yet. What does it mean when you say the workload will go up when this happens? Haha should I be worried ![]()
Basically: It takes some months for an enlightened item to be reviewed again. So once that happens, you might feel those items are adding to your “usual” workload.
I think “Current Level” refers to the Level displayed in the WK app (the same as the one in your level-up email)

that’s a separate script, though, btw ![]()
goodness! how do you even keep track?
i have no idea what scripts do what. i have a few (few?)
edit: >4000 review sessions and >75000 reviews… it’s amazing when you look back!