If you often don’t have time to do all your reviews in one session, maybe this script can be useful for you. It will prioritize the most urgent ones.
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Yes! Finding some concrete goal you want to accomplish for your Japanese is very useful. For me it’s been my love of Japanese audio dramas (where you obviously need a lot of vocab to follow by listening only), but just being able to buy manga is a goal for me (because most manga will never get translated). So, there’s so much I could read if only I were better at kanji.
So, just ask yourself what you enjoy? I doesn’t have anything to do with Japanese culture even! It could just be Western music and try to find info about that in Japanese (like Japanese fans stuff). I’m sure you can come up with a goal that works for you! Good luck!
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ok so I finally level up to Level 5, yeah !!!
I say “finally” because it was painful… it took me 23 days versus 12 days for completing level 3 
Too bad I can’t install on my laptop some of the scripts mentioned, it would probably help.
I only have the laptop from the company I work for, and scripts are blocked by my Security 
Anyway, still making progress, so I’ll try not to focus on the speed but rather the process of learning 
That’s good to hear! Your script situation is indeed unfortunate, but on the bright side you know that you can’t cheat yourself using them. It’s just as you said, ultimately it’s about learning something new, not how fast you do it. So keep chugging along, I wish you all the best.
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That’s awesome. I think the most impressive part is the consistent leveling speed. I’ll see you at 60 
Yeah Level 10 is about where you realize that there really is some commitment involved. This is also a good time to start doing grammar or reading so that you can see the fruit of all that work so far when you see Kanji you can recognize our in the wild.
As long as you’re making progress you’re good. I’ve been doing this for over a year and I’m still tweaking my method so it’s definitely something you’ll keep improving as you go.
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I can understand that. One option that might work for you is the mobile app. I use flaming durtles.
I find it very useful when on the go or when not in front of my computer. It is Android only though. It has a lot of the more useful scripts built in. I know there is an app for iOS
but I haven’t used it before so I don’t know what features it has. I hope this will be helpful to you.
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I’ve used Tsurukame since I started WK and it’s been great.
Rather than list all the features, here’s the settings page to give you an idea:
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Tx !
Yes, I use the iPhone version - my mobile is from the company I work for, and guess what, the app is not blocked
Tx !
I am using it too, but to be honest I never investigated the options.
I’ll try to play with the some of them to see if it helps me.
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The ones I use are:
- Lesson order - I like having it in the order WK uses for the levels: Radical, Kanji, Vocab
- Review order - I tried a few of the options, and Random order was the one where I had the best recall.
- Reveal answer automatically - Every time an item comes up, I will try to answer both reading meaning in my head no matter which one it asks for. If I get either wrong, I get the item wrong and review both.
- Allow cheating - This one is a misnomer. Typing on my phone keyboard is hard enough that getting something wrong because of a typo is too much of a penalty. I’ve been using this since the beginning so I’ve become used to being very strict in using this.
- Show old mnemonics - Sometimes the older ones stick better.
- Use katakana for onyomi readings - I turned this on to get better and reading katakana and it’s helped a lot.
- Show all kanji readings - I usually only memorize the primary one, but I do like to see all the readings WK has listed.
- Play audio automatically - This one really helps with cementing the word in my head. The one issue I have is that it will randomly play either the Kenichi or Kyoko audio. You can’t set it to one or the other or pick which one to listen to without playing it over and over.
- Offline audio - This is almost a necessity IMO. Having the audio offline means that it play back quickly and I don’t have to worry about an internet connection to go through and listen.
- Particle explosion, level up popup, +1 - Fancy stuff that looks nice
OMG this is so helpful 
I never thought about the audio - I was not even aware it was available…
Yes indeed it can only help to retain !
Tx a million, I’ve just switched it on and tried it on 先日 , it works
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For real, everyone is different, but it does get significantly harder than it is at level 6. You get way more vocabulary, some of the kanji start look similar to ones you’ve already learned, the meanings get more abstract, plus there are lots of synonyms and homonyms, which makes everything harder to remember. All in all, you should probably expect to slow down. Even at one level per month, you are learning way more vocabulary than in a traditional class.
I level up about every 10 days, but I’m corunemployed, so I can devote several hours to study a day. I would never stay motivated to keep at it if I didn’t love reading, and, even at level 27, I can read Japanese so much more easily than I could 6 months ago! Do it at whatever pace you can, but I recommend saving some of your study time for reading once you get past level 10 or so. There are lots of book clubs on here, and they are awesome!
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