Like when you just keep getting everything wrong, and feel like you should be taking the day off
Iād say take the day off. There will always be reviews whenever youāre feeling better. Just remember to use your best judgement, and youāll be fine. Get well soon!
I come to @Redglare and say mmmmiaaaaou.
On the serious note: I always zero my reviews no matter what miaou
Meditate and try again. Donāt give up
Take a nap - no more than 20-30 minutes. Brain reset.
Finish your reviews always (every day if possible). Itās ok to wait on new lessons until you feel like youāve caught up. Itās so much harder to get going after a break than to continue a streak
Bombing a review set feels bad, but I almost always have a great review set the next day ā and a mistake is just a chance to learn the item better! So Iād say roll with the punches, and look forward to tomorrow.
Donāt try to conquer all of the reviews at once. Just do 10 at a time and step away from WK in between sessions. Do something else, get a drink, eat a snack, whatever. Then come back to it.
The āwrap-upā function has been my life-saver on this app. Someone mentioned it about a month ago, and itās helped me considerably ever since. I pretty much always only do about ten at a timeā¦ which actually ends up making a stack of 40 or 110 feel like similar amounts of work (not exactly but close enough).
Besides that, if Iām feeling brain-fried from WK, it usually means I have too many new items Iām juggling. So, Iāll stop myself from doing new lessons until the new-ish material starts to feel more comfortable and I get the itch to learn more ānewā stuff.
I just give up for the day, pursue my other interests(there isnāt a time frame for me to learn) and missing a day or too isnāt too bad, there will be more reviews, but those can be taken care of in time.
Stand up, do some kata to clear my mind, rest my eyes from the screen, then do another batch.
Just take a day off haha, try and read a story or some manga, or some easy news, anything is good. Or just look at some Japanese stuff or watch anime for mental inspiratoin haha. I had the same thing this week lmao. Doing reviews in a bad mental state will just pile up more reviews in the future as things get leveled down. Also, don`t do any lessons what ever you do! Just take it easy! Its a marathon, not a sprint. Rest well! and have a Merry Chritsmas!
yeah, as others have mentioned Iām just going to take the day off and tackle it tomorrow! I just feel too drained to look at kanji and recall definitions.
actually after looking over the thread, I went ahead and slugged out like 100+ reviews. Heh, thanks to everyone I guess.
I went through exactly the same thing few days ago and it was frustrating to the point I almost made a thread āPLS TELL ME THIS REALLY WORKSā to read positive words from others and convince myself all this wouldnāt be pointless. I ended up not making that post cause I wasnāt sure where should I filed that under and went to sleep instead lol
Thanks for making this thread, at least I know Iām not alone
I always try to push through, or if Iām really in a bad way Iāll just take a break for an hour or so. Probably not the best thing to do but it works for me
Reviews: I just do them anyway. I want to know how to read even when Iām tired. Besides, failing reviews isnāt a bad thing, itās just more review.
I try NOT to do lessons when I know Iām like that though. I donāt do lessons until my reviews are at zero. If I just went through the āfailed the review again even though I just failed it and saw the correct answer three minutes agoā routine, then lessons arenāt going to be worth the time.
Itās crazy how my mindset can affect my reviews. Sometimes if I step in and notice Iām getting things wrong over and over, especially stuff I shouldnāt ā I just take a quick break. Refresh. Reset. And then suddenly Iām able to crank it out with excellent accuracy.
Definitely take some time off if you need it. But the reviews, and your review count wonāt be taking time off (without vacation mode).
when i have a brainfart, i take a break. eat, drink, get some fresh air or take a nap.
whatever it may be that i need at that moment, and then iām back.
if that doesnāt help, i take the hits and let the items fail. sometimes thatās whatās needed.
I wasnāt well yesterday and did 20 lessons only because yippy yay Iām a lifer on level 4. Woke up this morning to 99 reviews and almost cried. Itās a 40min commute to my office and I kept staring at the 99 thinking Iām gonna feel even worse after work so why not get it over with. So I did. I got 87/99 but the ones I got wrong were mainly due to typos as Iām not used to doing reviews in the car on my phone. I will admit that I definitely stuffed up the readings and meanings for ē and å because seriously they look identical. Also ē just eluded me because why the heck do all these look the same!!!
Sorry for the mini rant. For me I guess like what you did was just to get over it and get it done. Despite being tired and sleepy I genuinely knew my stuff which was heartening. No override scripts involved too hence the typos